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[brother]

Turkish paper argues that the PKK is about to carry out acts and raids against Turkish-army-held north Cyprus
Istanbul ORTADOGU newspaper (31.03.05) publishes the following article under the title: "PKK's new target: Kurdish vote in Northern Cyprus":

'The primary target of the terrorist organization, which is sending armed militants to the island, is young officers and SNCOs. The organization, which acts with outside support, plans to bring left-wing terrorist groups to its side and force the mainland Turks on the island to migrate. What is wanted on Cyprus is for the terrorist card to be played.

Among the activities that the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] is planning to carry out are armed, or mostly unarmed, actions aimed at disturbing the peace. The terrorists have added impetus to their propaganda activities aimed at citizens on the island of Kurdish origin. They firstly identify the correct houses, then leave brochures saying, "United. Everything for the PKK and for freedom."

It is known that the terrorist organization has sympathizers in Lefkosia where there are concentrated numbers of Kurds living. The organization carries out its activities mostly in this town, anyway. The PKK prefers the coffee houses as their propaganda sowing fields. It is very difficult for non-Kurds to enter these coffee houses, which are in the back alleys and are adorned with posters of Apo [Abdullah Ocalan's nom de guerre].

PKK Proponents living in southern Cyprus and citizens of this part of the island have been able to come to the north, albeit for one day at a time, now that border crossings have begun. The PKK exist among the Kurds who run construction sites in both parts of Cyprus, and they use the crossings to convey information and documents. However, it is also known that militants cross from the Greek Cypriot side into Syria and from there into the north of the island in order to carry out armed acts of terrorism. By carrying out these acts against mainland Turks who have settled there they aim to set the Cypriot Turks against the mainland Turks. This process is also supported by pro-Greek Cypriot mercenary columnists in the `TRNC´.

The militants blend in with people of Kurdish origin and have been working for years in cooperation with terrorists who receive military and political training in camps in southern Cyprus. The activities are carried out in a coordinated fashion in both the north and the south. It is alleged that there are about 150 terrorists ready to carry out acts of terrorism in the north. The militants for their part aim to subvert the Kurds on the island and use tem in their acts of terrorism.

While doing all this the PKK is reportedly going to make use of the leftist organizations it has been acting together with for years in the south, starting with the DHKP-C [Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front]. One of the terrorist organization's key figures Murat Karayilan uses the term "they are insurance" for the group in northern Cyprus. The PKK on the island are mainly organized by

Kurdish nationalist associations and organizations in the south of the island, and they get their orders directly from their so-called commanders in Greece.

The Greek Cypriots are reportedly going to recognize Southeast Anatolia, where terrorist action has started up again, as "Northern Kurdistan" while the PKK is reportedly going to recognize the entire island as "The Republic of Cyprus" governed by the Greek Cypriots. The following statement is given on the PKK website: "The terrorist activity in the north will disturb the peace through acts and raids thus forcing the mainland Turks to migrate, which will benefit the south."

The Greek Cypriots want the PKK to carry out acts in their interest in return for allowing them to stay in the south. The ENOSIS Greek Cypriots want to make the island an entirely Greek island and are giving the terrorists support and direction. It is known that churches have been providing food and shelter to the terrorist organization's members, whose presence in southern Cyprus has been known about since 1988, and that they are being provided with work. The Cyprus Kurdistan Solidarity Committee, located in the southern part of Lefkosia, emerges as a unit that organizes terrorism. This committee, which is located at 16, Orpfeas Street, is known to be supported by the Greek Cypriot Office of Information. The Kurdistan National Front and the Kurdish Democratic People's Union also carry out their activities in southern Lefkosia. The PKK is known to be financing Kurdish students studying at universities on the island in order to gain supporters, and has been doing so for a long time. The students get grants from the organization and rent houses close to the universities. They propagandize students that they bring to their homes. The PKK members hide their presence at the universities by acting together with extreme leftist organizations.

PKK terrorism also has a share in the peddling of drugs and women on the island as well as in the casinos. PKK Kurds have the monopoly on trade in Moldovian white women, and they make lots of money off these prostitutes, whom they get to sign loaded contracts. Several nightclubs in Lefkosia and Kyrenia, called pubs, are used both as entertainment centers and meeting areas. It is noteworthy that a significant number of these pubs are run by Kurds.

Because the pro-Greek Cypriot Mehmet Ali Talat government is in power backed by the Justice and Development Party the PKK have found the ideal environment. Every act carried out by the PKK Kurds is blamed on the mainland Turks. "They are Turks, you see. Why do you care so much for them and for Turkey? They are Turks, we are Cypriot," they say in their propaganda, and create a fabricated Cypriot identity that has never existed in history in an attempt to separate the Cypriot Turks from the motherland and add them to southern Cyprus. They want to make the mainland Turks appear evil to the Cypriot Turks. Pressure is being applied by the pro-Greek Cypriot Talat government to make the mainland Turks leave the island. It is with this aim in mind that drinking water is not being supplied to the village of Guneskoy, (occupied Nikitas village) whose entire population is made up of mainland Turks. The municipal police are forever harassing mainland Turkish tradesmen. Together with propaganda being conducted by PKK Kurds the brought-off journalists are partners to the PKK plans to drive the mainland Turks off the island by writing all kind of articles'.


THIS IS THE MOST DISTURBING NEWS I HAVE HEARD BEING ALLEGED.

[Alexandros Lordos]

THIS IS THE MOST DISTURBING NEWS I HAVE HEARD BEING ALLEGED.

This article is so much infested with lies, misinformation and propaganda, it is impossible to tell which parts of it are true and which parts of it are false.

[brother]

I got this from the "Hellenic resources network" and the link to it is;

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/200 ... .tcpr.html

I am not sure what to make of it alex.

[Main_Source]

Wouldnt surprise me if the government of Turkey was behind this article...its seems like the biggest load of crap.

Anyway, one thing I spotted...why would Kurds go to Syria to get to N. Cyprus..does Syria fly or boat to ports in N. Cyprus? I didnt think so...considering the RoC and Syria have good diplomatic ties.

[turkcyp]

Although I think there is a high chance that this whole thing is fabricated, I also would not be so shocked of it turns out to be true to some extent. After all the relationship between Greece and PKK is very well documented, so I would not be surprised if the same relationship exists between RoC and PKK.

After all the main idea behind these relationships is “Foe of my foe is my friend” even though that foe is a terrorist organization responsible for the murders of innocent civilians.

I am disgusted with PKK. They have done the biggest damage to the Kurds rights by taking turning their political struggle into terrorist activity aimed at armed forces and civilians. With this they have caused such an anger in Turkish society in Turkey that even the advocates of Kurds rights stopped talking because the whole society become so polarized about this. After PKK started his brutal tactics everything that Kurds asked for started to be looked as suspicion and potential terrorist activity.

Of course Republic of Turkey should have managed to separate the terrorist PKK from other Kurds that are asking for their rights, but the stupid nationalism feeling once it takes roots is very hard to get rid of. Everybody is guilty to some degree.

[efe]

i dont know if you remember but when ocalan was caught, they found "ROC" Passport on him. This was documented and published and therefore most likely true.

[turkcyp]

i dont know if you remember but when ocalan was caught, they found "ROC" Passport on him. This was documented and published and therefore most likely true.

Let alone that it is also very well documented that when hewas on the run he was in Greece asking for asylum, and Turkey was asking extradition, but Greece refused to give it back.They tried to send him to Russia and Russia didn't let him in either. Then he was sent to Kenya Greece embassy where later on he was picked up but Turkish secret service.

I did not know about the RoC passport though but I would not discredit something like that immediately.

During those days it was even a big embarassment in Greece. I remember 3 ministers had resigned from Simitis goverment after the Ocalan fiasco.

PKK training camps in some of the Greek isles are also very well documented in 90s thorgh every ind of photographic evidence.

[metecyp]

I did not know about the RoC passport though but I would not discredit something like that immediately.

Yes, he did have a RoC passport in his pocket when he was caught. I think we discussed about this in the forum before.

[Alexandros Lordos]

I think there is indeed a sentiment of "solidarity with the plight of the Kurds" amongst Greek Cypriots, according to the mentality "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

I wouldn't be surprised if Ocalan was given somehow an RoC passport, nor would I be surprised if individual GCs have morally or financially supported Kurdish activities.

Ocalan is generally not considered a terrorist by GCs, instead GCs tend to consider what Turkey is doing with the Kurds to be "state-sponsored terrorism".

However, there are two notions in the article above which I found outlandish:

a - That the GCs have made a deal with the Kurds for mutual recognition.

for what purpose? ... the GCs are not in the business of "recognising unrecognised states". The guy who wrote this article is obviously projecting his own Turkish mentality (if we call a region a "state" for long enough then it will be recognised as such), not reflecting a truth about the GCs.

b - That Kurdish terrorists are being trained in Cyprus.

I know the GC community, these things just do not happen. If we wanted to train terrorists we would have trained our own by now. After 1974, we lost our appetite for terrorist activities.

[turkcyp]

I wouldn't be surprised if Ocalan was given somehow an RoC passport, nor would I be surprised if individual GCs have morally or financially supported Kurdish activities.

Ocalan is generally not considered a terrorist by GCs, instead GCs tend to consider what Turkey is doing with the Kurds to be "state-sponsored terrorism".

Very sad actually Alex,

Ocalan and PKK is actually disgrace to Kurdish rights, because they have done more damage to Kurdish rights then anybody by employing armed tactics anyone in their way without differentiating between civilian and military.

That is the reason why they are labeled as terrorist by majority of the countries in the world. What Turkey failed to do and still fails to do to a much lesser extent today, (because of its stupid nationalist pride) is to differentiate between PKK Ocalan and all the other Kurds that demand Kurdish rights. They lumped everybody that ask for Kurdish rights into one big terrorist category.

GCs on the other hand seem to be doing the same thing but the other way around. They are lumping every Kurd into Kurdish Right Activists category without differentiating between terrorists and the others.

Shame, really shame on GC society the same way I am putting shame on Turkish society in lumping all Kurds into one big terrorist category.

Kurds on many occasions are actually viewed with sympathy in northern Cyprus. They are not liked because they are poor, dirty, and they mostly come to north to work, but when it comes to giving them their political rights, they are quite sympathized. There is a feeling that whatever is happening to Kurds in Turkey had happened to TCs in Cyprus up to 1974.