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[RAFAELLA]

The Turkish Cypriot “University Women Association” accuses the illegal settlers from Turkey for the increased acts of raping, abuse and harassments of women in occupied Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (23.05.08 ) reports that the Turkish Cypriot “University Women Association” in a written statement issued yesterday referred to the recent increased raping, abuse and harassment cases in the Turkish occupied part in the Republic of Cyprus and declared that this situation is related to the “demographic changes in the country” and the “increased male population in the de facto population and the low education, culture and income level of these people”, implying Turks brought from Turkey and settled illegally in the Turkish occupied part of the Republic of Cyprus. It urged for necessary measures to be taken and the launching of a scientific investigation of the problem immediately and seriously.

The Association condemns these acts of raping, abuse and harassments and demands urgent measures so that they will not happen again.
(MHY)

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/PIO/PIO.nsf/A ... enDocument

Niiiil .....O Niiiil, where are you?

[boomerang]

boomerang just come back for you asshole. all people sent down under are criminals anyway, we sent them there so we could get rid of scum. like the turks did with you. notice how little crime there is in the trnc, can't say the same for the roc.

This is what smellypuss said...I suppose she considers is a good deed banging like a dunny door...

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/posting.php ... e&p=301200

[turkkan]

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/1 ... ws.html#02

Tuesday, July 13, 1999
[02] Police deny checking Pontians for circumcision
By Charlie Charalambous
POLICE hit back yesterday at claims that Black Sea Greeks were being rounded up in Paphos and stripped from the waist down to check if they were circumcised.

The police had stood accused of using the unorthodox methods to catch out 'fake' Greeks they suspected of being Muslims passing themselves off as ethnic Greeks to obtain coveted Greek passports.

The allegations were made by the president of the Federation of Greek Pontians, Omiros Poursanides, in an interview with Alithianewspaper on Sunday.

"Do you know what the police do in Paphos, they round up 15 to 20 people, take them to an isolated beach area, and take down their trousers to check if they've been circumcised," Poursanides claimed in the interview.

Poursanides alleged police had rounded up youths on at least five occasions for the purposes of inspecting their genitals.

"I was asked by the Paphos police chief if there were any Muslims among us. What am I supposed to say? I'm tired of the same questions," said the Pontian spokesman.

However, the police yesterday denied any involvement in such practices.

Police spokesman Stelios Neophytou told the Cyprus Mailthe allegations had "no bearing on reality".

"And the police wouldn't stoop so low as to use such methods," he added.

Paphos police noted they had received no complaints about such activities.

The Black Sea Greeks have over recent weeks been accused of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanours.

Not an evening goes by without Paphos local TV parading the latest batch of Pontian Greek suspects.

And Poursanides agreed a few bad apples intent on breaking the law were giving the whole community a bad name.

"There's about 30 or 40 people in Paphos who are on the TV every night, so why don't they just deport them?" Poursanides asked.

Local politicians and government ministers are unhappy about the "indiscriminate" way in which Greece has issued passports to those who once resided in the Black Sea region.

Paphos deputy Nicos Pittokopitis fanned the flames two weeks ago, describing Black Sea Greeks as rapists, drug dealers and of "dubious ethnic origin".

Thousands of Russians, Ukrainians and Georgians with Greek origins were issued Greek passports after the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 and therefore have no difficulty entering Cyprus. More importantly, they have the right to work on the island.

They started arriving in 1993 and now some 7,000 are estimated to be living on the island (at least 5,000 are concentrated in what is known as the "Paphos ghetto"), making them one of largest non-Cypriot communities on the island.

The vast majority of Pontian Greeks are concentrated in apartment blocks (renting around 1,700 flats) on two of Kato Paphos' main thoroughfares.

Paphos mayor Feidias Sarikas is so concerned about the settlement of 5,000 Black Sea Greeks in a town with a population of 22,000 that he's called for emergency state measures to disperse the "ghetto" community.

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Tuesday, July 13, 1999

[RAFAELLA]

A Turkish settler raped a French woman in the occupied areas
Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (04.06.08 ) reports that a French woman who was hitchhiking in the occupied areas has complained to the “police” that she was taken to the mountains, threatened with a knife and raped by the person who let her get into his vehicle.

Furthermore, Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (04.06.08 ) refers to the issue under the title “What is happening in our Cyprus?” The paper notes that the person who is accused of committing the crime has come to the island from Madrin, Turkey. Yesterday he was taken to the so-called district court of occupied Keryneia.

Finally, Turkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (04.06.08 ) reports that the name of the suspect is Sultan Akdogan. The French tourist lives in the free areas of Cyprus.
(I/Ts.)
http://www.moi.gov.cy/MOI/pio/pio.nsf/A ... enDocument

[halil]

Some how some people are always gets happy if anything happens in TC's side but they keeps quite that such a things does not happening at southern part of the island .İf you are very sensible for a such a actions you must also see what is going on around you as well . we must not give a credit for those people who everdoes these kind of the inhumane acts .

British woman reports alleged rape
By Bejay Browne

A 31-year-old British resident of Paphos accused her 28-year-old ex-boyfriend of raping her.

The un named woman claims she bumped into her ex in an all night restaurant in Kato Paphos, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

She told Police that after eating a meal together; they had left the Paphos restaurant at 4.30am. The woman alleges the Cypriot man, then forcibly manhandled her into his car.

She claims he drove her to his pub in Anarita in Paphos, dragging her inside, before raping her.

The woman reported the alleged incident to Paphos Police on Wednesday evening.

Police confirmed the woman had bruising to her forearms, but declined to comment further.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

Cyprus rapped for insufficient efforts on human trafficking
By Jean Christou

CYPRUS has been placed on the US human trafficking Tier 2 watch list for a third consecutive year for failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat the trade last year.

The Tier 2 watch list is one step way from Tier 3, where such countries as Saudi Arabia reside. Tier 3 is also the list where sanctions can be imposed by the US.

Although the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report recognises that Cyprus is making “significant efforts” to eliminate traffic, it says the island does not meet the minimum standards.

Cyprus hit the Tier 2 watch list for the first time in 2004, moved back up to Tier 2 in 2005 but was returned to the watch list in 2006, where it has stayed since.

According to the report, most victims of trafficking are fraudulently recruited to Cyprus on three-month “artiste” work permits to work in the cabaret industry, or on tourist visas to work in massage parlours disguised as private apartments. More limited numbers of foreign women work in pubs as “barmaids”.

“Cyprus remains the only member of the European Union to have such a permit, a well known tool used to traffic foreign victims,” said the TIP report.

“Although [Cyprus] passed a new trafficking law and opened a government trafficking shelter, these efforts are outweighed by its failure to show tangible and critically needed progress in the areas of law enforcement, victim protection and the prevention of trafficking.”

Cyprus needs to follow through with plans to abolish, or greatly restrict use of the artiste work permit, establish standard operating procedures to protect and assist victims in its new trafficking shelter; develop and launch a comprehensive campaign specifically aimed at clients and the broader public to reduce widespread misconceptions about trafficking and the cabaret industry and to dedicate more resources to its anti-trafficking unit, which has a staff of only three people.

Even though the US method of grouping countries into ‘Tiers’ is a questionable practice in itself, and appears almost arbitrary in some instances, the figures in the report show that action to combat trafficking appeared to have taken a step backwards last year.

Raids, undercover investigations, and traffickers convicted in 2007 dropped significantly.

Police launched only 27 investigations in 2007, compared to 60 in 2006. “Of the 27, eight of the cases are still under investigation, one was dropped, one was otherwise disposed of, and 17 were sent to court,” the report added.

Of those 17 cases, 11 are still pending trial, four were suspended, and two were dismissed.

Of the 36 prosecutions pending at the end of 2006, eight of the cases resulted in convictions, 14 in acquittals, three were dismissed by the courts, one was withdrawn, one was otherwise disposed of, and nine are still pending trial.

Eleven traffickers were convicted with sentences ranging from four months’ imprisonment to three and a half years. Nine traffickers are still awaiting trial; the government acquitted 14 suspects, dismissed three, and the two remaining cases were withdrawn. The government also prosecuted seven police officers for their involvement in two separate trafficking-related cases.
Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

[denizaksulu]

Some how some people are always gets happy if anything happens in TC's side but they keeps quite that such a things does not happening at southern part of the island .İf you are very sensible for a such a actions you must also see what is going on around you as well . we must not give a credit for those people who everdoes these kind of the inhumane acts .

British woman reports alleged rape
By Bejay Browne

A 31-year-old British resident of Paphos accused her 28-year-old ex-boyfriend of raping her.

The un named woman claims she bumped into her ex in an all night restaurant in Kato Paphos, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

She told Police that after eating a meal together; they had left the Paphos restaurant at 4.30am. The woman alleges the Cypriot man, then forcibly manhandled her into his car.

She claims he drove her to his pub in Anarita in Paphos, dragging her inside, before raping her.

The woman reported the alleged incident to Paphos Police on Wednesday evening.

Police confirmed the woman had bruising to her forearms, but declined to comment further.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

Cyprus rapped for insufficient efforts on human trafficking
By Jean Christou

CYPRUS has been placed on the US human trafficking Tier 2 watch list for a third consecutive year for failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat the trade last year.

The Tier 2 watch list is one step way from Tier 3, where such countries as Saudi Arabia reside. Tier 3 is also the list where sanctions can be imposed by the US.

Although the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report recognises that Cyprus is making “significant efforts” to eliminate traffic, it says the island does not meet the minimum standards.

Cyprus hit the Tier 2 watch list for the first time in 2004, moved back up to Tier 2 in 2005 but was returned to the watch list in 2006, where it has stayed since.

According to the report, most victims of trafficking are fraudulently recruited to Cyprus on three-month “artiste” work permits to work in the cabaret industry, or on tourist visas to work in massage parlours disguised as private apartments. More limited numbers of foreign women work in pubs as “barmaids”.

“Cyprus remains the only member of the European Union to have such a permit, a well known tool used to traffic foreign victims,” said the TIP report.

“Although [Cyprus] passed a new trafficking law and opened a government trafficking shelter, these efforts are outweighed by its failure to show tangible and critically needed progress in the areas of law enforcement, victim protection and the prevention of trafficking.”

Cyprus needs to follow through with plans to abolish, or greatly restrict use of the artiste work permit, establish standard operating procedures to protect and assist victims in its new trafficking shelter; develop and launch a comprehensive campaign specifically aimed at clients and the broader public to reduce widespread misconceptions about trafficking and the cabaret industry and to dedicate more resources to its anti-trafficking unit, which has a staff of only three people.

Even though the US method of grouping countries into ‘Tiers’ is a questionable practice in itself, and appears almost arbitrary in some instances, the figures in the report show that action to combat trafficking appeared to have taken a step backwards last year.

Raids, undercover investigations, and traffickers convicted in 2007 dropped significantly.

Police launched only 27 investigations in 2007, compared to 60 in 2006. “Of the 27, eight of the cases are still under investigation, one was dropped, one was otherwise disposed of, and 17 were sent to court,” the report added.

Of those 17 cases, 11 are still pending trial, four were suspended, and two were dismissed.

Of the 36 prosecutions pending at the end of 2006, eight of the cases resulted in convictions, 14 in acquittals, three were dismissed by the courts, one was withdrawn, one was otherwise disposed of, and nine are still pending trial.

Eleven traffickers were convicted with sentences ranging from four months’ imprisonment to three and a half years. Nine traffickers are still awaiting trial; the government acquitted 14 suspects, dismissed three, and the two remaining cases were withdrawn. The government also prosecuted seven police officers for their involvement in two separate trafficking-related cases.
Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

Halil, as I said before. The RoC is legal. Therefore it stands to reason that NOTHING illegal happens in the south.

[RAFAELLA]

"...increased raping, abuse and harassment cases in the Turkish occupied part in the Republic of Cyprus and declared that this situation is related to the “demographic changes in the country” and the “increased male population in the de facto population and the low education, culture and income level of these people”, implying Turks brought from Turkey and settled illegally in the Turkish occupied part of the Republic of Cyprus."

[xxNilxx]

aman aman aman OH MY GOD... How the hell do you Greek speaking Cypriots know EVERYTHING that is going on in the North!!

By the way, yes rape has increased because the population increased and obviously it's bloody uneducated settlers from Turkey or Kurds(:evil:) but rape happens in everywhere (including the Greek Republic of Southern Cyprus) and the rape in Turkish Rebulic of Northern Cyprus is very LOW.

Exactly. THANKS Halil.

[xxNilxx]

I can't believe these people are even crazy enough to read Turkish Cypriot newspaper.. Asil zideliler.

Rape happens MORE in the GREEK side (AKA ΕΛΛΑΣ) so get over it..

[Get Real!]

aman aman aman OH MY GOD... How the hell do you Greek speaking Cypriots know EVERYTHING that is going on in the North!!

By the way, yes rape has increased because the population increased and obviously it's bloody uneducated settlers from Turkey or Kurds(:evil:) but rape happens in everywhere (including the Greek Republic of Southern Cyprus) and the rape in Turkish Rebulic of Northern Cyprus is very LOW.

Your forgot to mention the severe raping of your brain but because I’m a compassionate man I’ll give you ONE FINAL CHANCE to get your terminology right.