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[RichardB]

Thanks for the link

This was on the link you posted Gavin maybe this is what you wanted to post

“Human Rights Violations in Cyprus by Turkey”

The Press and Information Office (PIO) of the Republic of Cyprus has recently issued the new publication in English: “Human Rights Violations in Cyprus by Turkey” . This 48-page booklet examines the documented, massive and continuing violations of internationally protected human rights committed by Turkey in Cyprus. These violations are the direct outcome of Turkey’s unlawful 1974 invasion of the Republic of Cyprus, of the continuing occupation of nearly 37% of its sovereign territory and the systematic ethnic cleansing that occurred in the area of Cyprus under Turkish occupation. The text is based on a forthcoming larger study on the subject by Dr. Van Coufoudakis, a distinguished political scientist and prominent scholar of the Cyprus problem. That book will be published by the end of 2008 in the United States of America. The information comes from reports, investigations and decisions by NGO’s, the European Commission of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the European Parliament among other sources. These independent sources fully document Turkey’s violations of contemporary international and European human rights laws and treaties that Turkey itself has signed and ratified. The information presented leaves no doubt about Turkey’s systematic and deliberate policy of eradicating the Greek and Christian cultural heritage and presence in the Turkish occupied areas. These discriminatory policies have been directed since 1974 at Greek, Maronite and Armenian Cypriots because of their ethnicity, religion and language. Such discrimination is explicitly prohibited under both the European Convention of Human Rights and by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. . - 27.06.2008

[GAVCARoCOM]

here is the link .

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/i ... enDocument

Gav, this link says no such thing.

you have to search because its daily news there .

try this
http://www.cyprus.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.ns ... ment&print

[GAVCARoCOM]

Turkish Cypriot Republican Turkish Party (CTP) has become a full member of the Socialist International meeting which takes place in Santiago, Chile, with the contribution of Georgos Papandreou, Chairman of the Socialist International, and after the intensive efforts of the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal. In a statement made after the CTP full membership acceptance, Ferdi Sabit Soyer, leader of CTP, said that this membership is the greatest victory of the TRNC at international relations level. The TRNC , which is officially recognised by no other country than Turkey has indirectly been recognised with the acceptance of the CTP as a full member by the Socialist International. The Greek President Papandreou, who is the leader of PASOK, demonstrated an example of equality and brotherhood which is suitable to the spirit of the Socialist International, just as it preserves the interests of his own country. Also, Baykals great contribution has brought this honour to us. This membership is a sign of absolute equality of the two communities of the island, he added.

On his part, Mr Baykal said that the acceptance of CTP as a full member is the result of an approximately ten-year-effort and that this membership to an organization of international esteem gives hope. Congratulations to the TRNC and the Turkish Republic, he stressed.

http://www.cyprus.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.ns ... ment&print

[DT.]

here is the link .

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/i ... enDocument

Gav, this link says no such thing.

you have to search because its daily news there .

try this
http://www.cyprus.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.ns ... ment&print

Here you are Gav, from Zaman

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detay ... &bolum=102

CTP disappointed as SI summit ends
An appeal by the Republican Turks’ Party (CTP) of northern Cyprus to have its status upgraded in Socialist International (SI) has not been granted by the SI administration, despite the CTP’s intense lobbying efforts at a recent SI summit.



SI spokesperson Dimitris Droutsas said SI Secretary-General Luis Ayala will first have consultations with the CTP before an upgrade from their current observer status to “consultative,” which gives more rights to the party but excludes the right to vote. Only full members can vote according to the rules of SI, which had its 23rd congress in Athens from June 30 to July 2, with the attendance of about 650 delegates from 100 countries and 140 parties.
“If the congress was not in Athens, we could have upgraded our status,” CTP member Ünal Fındık told Today’s Zaman yesterday, adding that Greek politics played a role in their fate.

Speaking to Today’s Zaman, Droutsas noted: “Not states and governments but politics have been represented in Socialist International, but as a consultant to the UN, Socialist International respects the UN Security Council resolution which recognizes [Greek] Cyprus as a state.”

The SI council on Sunday decided to have consultations with the CTP regarding an upgrade of their status. The following day, when George Papandreou, president of SI and leader of Greece’s main opposition Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), mentioned the request at the congress, Greek Cypriots from SI’s full-member Movement of Social Democrats (EDEK) strongly opposed it.

After the former EDEK leader and an honorary member of SI, Vassos Lissarides, suggested postponement of the decision, Papandreou put this suggestion to a vote at the general congress and it was approved, to the disappointment of CTP members.

Fındık and the other CTP representative, Kutlay Erk, said they first applied for consultative status at SI’s council meeting in Chile and had been awaiting approval of their bid.

Fındık and Erk tried to gather support behind them by gathering signatures of Dutch, Spanish, French, Belgian and Swedish parties to achieve a status upgrade before the end of the congress, but the SI administration left the process pending.