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[halil]

The Tuzla martyrs were remembered this morning at a special ceremony in front of the Martyrs’ Monument in Tuzla village to the north of Famagusta.

The ceremony started with the laying of wreaths at the Tuzla Martyrs’ Monument.

During the ceremony, flags were raised to the national anthem, a minutes’ silence was observed and shot fired in memory of the martyrs, who died while defending the Tuzla village against Greek Cypriot attacks between 1958 and 1963, and in 1974.

The ceremony ended with prayers.

In a written statement, the President of the Society of Martyrs’ Families and the Disabled War Veterans Ertan Ersan said the heroic struggle waged by the Tuzla villagers will always be remembered.

[halil]

PEDESTRIAN PROJECT IN OLD CITY OF LEFKOSA (NİCOSİA)
A project to reorganize the flow of traffic within the center of Lefkosa and to transform roads into pedestrian walkways will be launched on Monday the 4th of August 2008, the Lefkosa Turkish Municipality has announced.

Brochures informing the public about the pedestrian walkway project carried out in cooperation between the Lefkosa Turkish Municipality and the Prime Minister’s office were handed out today.

The project is an important part of the wider “Asmaalti Development Project” aimed at revamping the heart of the capital.

Speaking to reporters during the campaign, the Mayor of Lefkosa Cemal Bulutoglulari said that they will be meeting and consulting with shop owners in the coming days before starting the project.

He said a large majority of a group of local shopkeepers and residents whom he met earlier at the Chamber of Shopkeepers and Artisans had expressed support for the scheme.

Explaining that the Turkey and the European Union will be financially contributing to the project, Mayor Bullutoglulari said that traffic congestions experienced in the area will be immensely relieved once the project is completed.

Within the framework of the project, the road leading from Sarayonu square to Asmaalti square, the area around the Great Inn and the road leading from Arasta Pedestrian Street to the Besdesten will be converted into pedestrian walkways.

[Brittania]

The Tuzla martyrs were remembered this morning at a special ceremony in front of the Martyrs’ Monument in Tuzla village to the north of Famagusta.

The ceremony started with the laying of wreaths at the Tuzla Martyrs’ Monument.

During the ceremony, flags were raised to the national anthem, a minutes’ silence was observed and shot fired in memory of the martyrs, who died while defending the Tuzla village against Greek Cypriot attacks between 1958 and 1963, and in 1974.

The ceremony ended with prayers.

In a written statement, the President of the Society of Martyrs’ Families and the Disabled War Veterans Ertan Ersan said the heroic struggle waged by the Tuzla villagers will always be remembered.

You know for someone that keeps saying "the past is past lets build the future" you've posted or mentioned this about 4 times today. Yet you'd probably react if a GC posted about the remembrance of one of the gc villages that got slaughtered by turks.

[Oracle]

"Fortunate" you have a few deaths to "celebrate" so that you can "justifiably" capitalise by having an excuse to "upstage" any misery the GCs may feel at having thousands of their people killed, hundreds of thousands ethnically cleansed from their homes and nearly half the island lost to some Eastern backward expansionist warmongers.

[halil]

News from the North

CAKICI AND ANTONIADOU EXPRESS SUPPORT TO THE TWO LEADERS IN CYPRUS.

The Communal Democracy Party (TDP) has launched a series of visits to Greek Cypriot political parties in a bid to seek support for the ongoing talks between the two leaders on the island.
Within the framework of the visits, the leader of the TDP Mehmet Cakici came together with the deputy-leader of the Greek Cypriot United Democrats (EDI) Praxoula Antoniadou.


Speaking after the meeting, the EDI deputy leader said that the aim of the meeting- which came just a day before tomorrow’s leaders’ meeting - was to express support to the two leaders and encourage them towards starting comprehensive negotiations as soon as possible.


She expressed the hope that the two leaders will sign an agreement to bring peace and prosperity to the island.


For his part, the leader of the Communal Democracy Party Mehmet Cakici said that both peoples on the island needed a solution and that time wasted in the process of achieving that goal worked against the interest of both sides.


Expressing his party’s desire for the two leaders to launch comprehensive negotiations, the TDP leader said a solution should be based on bi-zonality, bi-communality and political equality of the two sides.


“We must work very hard. This is an historic process and we must support the two leaders” he added.

[halil]

News from the North
Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer has said that full-fledged negotiations on the Cyprus issue are expected to be launched on the 1st of September.


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.
Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer has said that full-fledged negotiations on the Cyprus issue are expected to be launched on the 1st of September.


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.


The two leaders are expected to announce how and when the substantial negotiations are to be launched.


Speaking before entering yesterday’s meeting of the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Soyer said that the government’s objective is to start the talks with determination on the basis of political equality but he added that harmonization work with the European Union will be speeded up prior to a solution.


The Premier noted that talks on 8 of the 12 chapters with the EU have been completed.


Responding to a question concerning a possible cabinet change, the Premier stated that programs to be followed on the Cyprus issue and EU matters are being discussed within party organs and said `if any change are to be made, these will be made during this process`.

[DT.]

News from the North
Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer has said that full-fledged negotiations on the Cyprus issue are expected to be launched on the 1st of September.


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.
Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer has said that full-fledged negotiations on the Cyprus issue are expected to be launched on the 1st of September.


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.


The two leaders are expected to announce how and when the substantial negotiations are to be launched.


Speaking before entering yesterday’s meeting of the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Soyer said that the government’s objective is to start the talks with determination on the basis of political equality but he added that harmonization work with the European Union will be speeded up prior to a solution.


The Premier noted that talks on 8 of the 12 chapters with the EU have been completed.


Responding to a question concerning a possible cabinet change, the Premier stated that programs to be followed on the Cyprus issue and EU matters are being discussed within party organs and said `if any change are to be made, these will be made during this process`.

For gods sake Are you guys opening and closing chapters of the EU?
Are you passing new laws and the EU is considering this as progress for a membership? What chapters? Since you give me turkish sayings halil I'll give you a greek one.

Μεν σουζεις τα πωθκια σου πριν καβαλιτζεψεις.
Don't shake your legs before you've mounted.

[pantheman]

News from the North


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.

Halil, for the million time will you stop this psychologiacal brainwashing.

It is PRESIDENT Christofias and some apparent leader.

We all know you are spreading the propganda but please get your FACTS right. But I suppose working for an illegal regime and going back on your word is standard practice huh?

Remember PRESIDENT Christofias in future.

[Kikapu]

News from the North
Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer has said that full-fledged negotiations on the Cyprus issue are expected to be launched on the 1st of September.


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.
Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer has said that full-fledged negotiations on the Cyprus issue are expected to be launched on the 1st of September.


President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris
Christofias will meet tomorrow to review the work by technical committees established to prepare the grounds for comprehensive negotiations.


The two leaders are expected to announce how and when the substantial negotiations are to be launched.


Speaking before entering yesterday’s meeting of the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Soyer said that the government’s objective is to start the talks with determination on the basis of political equality but he added that harmonization work with the European Union will be speeded up prior to a solution.


The Premier noted that talks on 8 of the 12 chapters with the EU have been completed.


Responding to a question concerning a possible cabinet change, the Premier stated that programs to be followed on the Cyprus issue and EU matters are being discussed within party organs and said `if any change are to be made, these will be made during this process`.

For gods sake Are you guys opening and closing chapters of the EU?
Are you passing new laws and the EU is considering this as progress for a membership? What chapters? Since you give me turkish sayings halil I'll give you a greek one.

Μεν σουζεις τα πωθκια σου πριν καβαλιτζεψεις.
Don't shake your legs before you've mounted.

Which chapter was on Human and Democratic Right violation I wonder, and if already discussed, what did the EU say.??

Perhaps those minor details are left for last to be discussed, just like with Turkey.!!

Find a settlement, and the north will be in the EU overnight, since it is halfway there anyway, with the True Cypriots of the north.!

[halil]

News from the North

The UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor to Cyprus Alexander Downer will arrive in Cyprus on Sunday for talks with the two sides.

The visit will be first to the island by Mr Downer who was recently appointed by the UN as the UN Chief’s Special Adviser.

According to information obtained from the UNFICYP Spokesman Jose Diaz, Mr Downer will be meeting separately with President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot Leader Demetris Christofias on Tuesday, the 29th of July.

He will also be meeting with the UN Special Representative in Cyprus-UNFICYP Chief of Mission Taye-Brook Zerihoun on Monday.

The UN Special Advisor is expected to leave the island on Wednesday.


UBP EXPRESS CONCERN OVER MEETING BETWEEN TALAT AND CHRISTOFIAS


The Leader of the main opposition National Unity Party Tahsin Ertugruloglu has expressed concern over tomorrow’s meeting between President Mehmet Ali Talat and the Greek Cypriot Leader Dimitris Christofias.

In a written statement today, Mr Ertugruloglu described the meeting between the two leaders as the most critical meeting on the Cyprus Problem to be held until today.

‘The meeting will take place under the shadow of Mr Talat’s acceptance of a vital issue; ‘the issue of single sovereignty’, besides single international identity and single citizenship’ Mr Ertugruloglu said.

He also expressed the hope that President Talat will work on to constitute a national consensus before reaching a decision if vital issues are brought to the agenda and he will not make the same mistake he did last time.

AVCI CALLS ON GREEK CYPRIOT SIDE TO CONTRIBUTE TO SOLUTION IN CYPRUS


Deputy Prime Minister-Foreign Minister Turgay Avci has called on the Greek Cypriot Side to put forward an attitude which would contribute to the solution of the Cyprus problem during tomorrow’s meeting.

In a written statement today, Mr Avci complained that some Greek Cypriot officials especially the Greek Cypriot Leader Dimitris Christofias and Foreign Minister Markos Kiprianu are still continuing to make statement which would harm the process on the eve of negotiations between the two leaders.

Explaining that the Mr Christofias has claimed that Turkey is the source of the problems being faced in the way for a solution while he was receiving some foreign ambassadors newly appointed to South Cyprus, Mr Avci stressed that Turkey’s support to the Annan plan which was the most comprehensive solution plan ever is well-known by the whole world.