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Turkish Cypriot academician proposes the opening of closed Varosha before the solution and the use of the original names of the occupied villages

Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (26.02.08 ) reports that the expert on international relations, Dr. Mehmet Hasguler, who is a member of the teaching staff of the 18 March University of Canakkale in Turkey and the illegal Near East University in the occupied areas of Cyprus, has made two proposals after the election of President Christofias.

In statements to the paper he said that the issue of the opening of the occupied closed city of Varosha until the solution could be discussed under the auspices of the UN. The second proposal of Dr. Hasguler is the use of the original names of the occupied villages, i.e. the names used during the Ottoman rule with the addition of the word “ancient”.

He gave some examples on this issue and said that occupied Galatia and Livadia villages or Mehmetcik and Sazlikoy as the Turks named them after the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, may be called “Ancient Galatia” and “Ancient Livadia”.
(I/Ts.)
http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/A ... enDocument

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So much for being an expert on International Relations ??

[Kristianikos]

Turkish Cypriot academician proposes the opening of closed Varosha before the solution and the use of the original names of the occupied villages

Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (26.02.08 ) reports that the expert on international relations, Dr. Mehmet Hasguler, who is a member of the teaching staff of the 18 March University of Canakkale in Turkey and the illegal Near East University in the occupied areas of Cyprus, has made two proposals after the election of President Christofias.

In statements to the paper he said that the issue of the opening of the occupied closed city of Varosha until the solution could be discussed under the auspices of the UN. The second proposal of Dr. Hasguler is the use of the original names of the occupied villages, i.e. the names used during the Ottoman rule with the addition of the word “ancient”.

He gave some examples on this issue and said that occupied Galatia and Livadia villages or Mehmetcik and Sazlikoy as the Turks named them after the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, may be called “Ancient Galatia” and “Ancient Livadia”.
(I/Ts.)
http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/A ... enDocument

This may be a bit off topic.. but Livadia ?? my mum comes from a village in Larnaca called Livadia or Livathkia if you want to say it the village way..

Is this the same village mentioned in the post ? because i don't remember it being part of the TRNC