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[salonica]

I told you there might be a few like in every corner of the world. I don't know what r u talking abiout changing their names and stuff, sorry cant help.

I said that a solution cannot be reached because of your beleives

[uzan]

I told you there might be a few like in every corner of the world. I don't know what r u talking abiout changing their names and stuff, sorry cant help.

I said that a solution cannot be reached because of your beleives

Yes you are right solition can't reached because of gc believes.If they dont agree we tc not minority, sorry no solution.

[Viewpoint]

salonica can you see how far apart our communities are, why force a solution when we can all be happy living apart. You dont need us and we dont need you all you really want is land and more wealth reducing us to a minority in our own homeland.

[salonica]

Thank God not many people think like you do.

speak for yourself

and forget division

[MicAtCyp]

Oh boy. So far none of our TCs got the point....

The colluminist actually wanted to say that the Norther part of Cyprus is under the ocupation of Turkey and its army. But due to the new penal code of Turkey he did not say it directly. He just blaimed the side effects of this occupation. There is a proverb in GC dialect that says:
"Apon mporei na derei ton garo, dernei to sama" The one who cannot beat the donkey beats the packsaddle.

Garbitsch, for your information personally I never beleived the "Kurdish brothers" fairy tail passed on the masses of Greeks and GCs. I know very well how many Kurdish setlers there are in the occupied, I know they are equally backwards as the Turkish ones and I know exactly how the Kurds are financed.

Insan, all I know is than in Nicosia I am always bored to lock my car. I am also bored to have my cigaretes and coins with me so I always leave them inside my car. NOBODY STOLE ME A SINGLE THING SO FAR.
By the way yes you can fill whole pages of crimes recorded in the free areas. You know why? Because they are indeed recordable. In the occupied areas they are not. So instead of recording them one uses numbers like thousands, tens of thousands etc as the columnist does.

[insan]

Insan, all I know is than in Nicosia I am always bored to lock my car. I am also bored to have my cigaretes and coins with me so I always leave them inside my car. NOBODY STOLE ME A SINGLE THING SO FAR.

Your "free areas" seems like heaven ree..

By the way yes you can fill whole pages of crimes recorded in the free areas. You know why? Because they are indeed recordable. In the occupied areas they are not. So instead of recording them one uses numbers like thousands, tens of thousands etc as the columnist does.

Ahhaaa... collumnist does. It seems the police officers just record the crimes committed that's all. For instance two years ago an old taxi driver was killed in Paphos area, has the murderer been found?

[magikthrill]

But due to the new penal code of Turkey he did not say it directly.

What about this new penal code?

[brother]

Why is everyone missing the point of the article is trying to make, every day people from turkey come using an identity card and no money in their pocket by the very same days evening they have robbed or murdered and back on the boat to turkey or staying to work illegally, how does this benefit us.

If these people were educated or had money they would benefit the cypriot society, as is they do not and are not a benefit to TRNC.

As such we have no control over our country and we go where ever the wind blows, the only time we started to look like an independant state was when we demonstrated against Denktas.

[Saint Jimmy]

Insan, all I know is than in Nicosia I am always bored to lock my car. I am also bored to have my cigaretes and coins with me so I always leave them inside my car. NOBODY STOLE ME A SINGLE THING SO FAR.

Your "free areas" seems like heaven ree..

By the way, this part is totally true, Insan.
I'd just taken it for granted, up until about a couple of years ago, when I started getting out of Cyprus and seeing other parts of the world...
I mean, it seems that in the rest of the world it's unthinkable to leave your car door unlocked at any point. But in the South, everybody just does, and if you get robbed, then you got yourself a story for the next 15 years to tell your buddies.
And I'm even worse than MicAtCyp. When we leave home, my family never lock any doors. Anyone can just push the back door open and help himself. But we haven't been robbed in 25 years. (and no, I won't tell you where I live )

[insan]

Insan, all I know is than in Nicosia I am always bored to lock my car. I am also bored to have my cigaretes and coins with me so I always leave them inside my car. NOBODY STOLE ME A SINGLE THING SO FAR.

Your "free areas" seems like heaven ree..

By the way, this part is totally true, Insan.
I'd just taken it for granted, up until about a couple of years ago, when I started getting out of Cyprus and seeing other parts of the world...
I mean, it seems that in the rest of the world it's unthinkable to leave your car door unlocked at any point. But in the South, everybody just does, and if you get robbed, then you got yourself a story for the next 15 years to tell your buddies.
And I'm even worse than MicAtCyp. When we leave home, my family never lock any doors. Anyone can just push the back door open and help himself. But we haven't been robbed in 25 years. (and no, I won't tell you where I live )

I thought this was once upon a time. Nowadays there are 10 thousands of Pontian settlers and foreign labourers in South. There are hundreds and even thousands of drug addicts.

Three held in connection with co-op raid
THREE youths have been remanded in custody for two days in connection with the armed robbery of a co-op bank in Limassol last month.
The robbers of the Ayios Athanassios branch fled with £7,000.

Brothers Argyris and Matthew Symeos and Nicolas Pieris, all aged 20, deny any involvement in the robbery, police told the court.

Police moved to arrest Argyris Symeos and Pieris after DNA tests on samples found on the getaway scooter allegedly matched theirs.

Both men had been arrested in the past in the same case but were subsequently released after their eight-day remand was over pending scientific tests.

Matthew Symeos was arrested after police say they found £1,600 in the house where he lives with his brother.

Police are still searching for the weapon used in the robbery as well as for the rest of the money, the court heard.

Copyright Cyprus Mail 2002

Thieves raid house for rifle and cash
THIEVES broke into the home of a Limassol District man yesterday and stole a National Guard-issue G3 rifle and £1,700 in cash, police said. It was the third theft of a weapon in Limassol in three days.
The latest incident happened in the early hours between 1.30am and 3am. Alecos Mavrides, from Pano Polemidhia, returned home from his son's engagement party to find the gun and the money missing.

Limassol police said the thieves appear to have broken into the house from the back entrance. They also said it was not the first time Mavrides' property has been attacked. Some time ago shots were fired at one of his storehouses in the village, and the wheels of his tractor were also stolen. Prior to that thieves also stole a number of his goats.

Limassol police are investigating.

Copyright Cyprus Mail 2002

£100,000 heist on jewellery shop
THIEVES broke into a Limassol jewellery shop early yesterday morning and stole designer watches, jewellery and diamonds worth an estimated £100,000.
The raiders triggered the alarm system at Athos jewellery store on Gladstone Street at around 4am. They broke in through the main door using a large piece of wood, and fled the crime scene just minutes later.

Police Superintendent Theodoros Stylianou said police arrived at the shop within seven minutes but the thieves had already made good their escape.

The owner, Athos Ioannides, said the stolen goods were of a very high quality, adding that they were insured. He also said this was not the first time his shop had been broken into.

Stylianou said the modus operandi of the crime matched two previous jewellery break-ins in Nicosia and Limassol over the past five months.

CID says it is continuing its investigations and collecting evidence of what it believes to be a gang of thieves responsible for the burglaries.

Copyright Cyprus Mail 2002

2004-06-25 | Simerini | ΔHMHTPH ANΤPEOY

Greek-Pontians versus Police in Paphos
Violent incidents, closing off a main street, injuries, arrests, unrest and civil disturbances
Dramatic scenes making headlines and broadcast in the media unfortunately stir strong and mixed feelings among the public, with the negative feelings prevailing.

It is true that hardly a day goes by without reading or hearing about some serious or less serious incident regarding aliens: Greek-Pontians, Russians, Chinese, Pakistanis, and others belonging to various ethnic groups. On one occasion, someone was involved in a murder or a murder attempt, on another occasion someone gets arrested for drug trafficking, others are involved in cases of prostitution and others are making profits from prostitution. There is a long list ahead, including break-ins, robberies, bomb attacks, thefts and other offenses committed mainly by aliens.

Thus, a feeling of insecurity, xenophobia and racism is gradually beginning to be formed among the public. And yet, our ancestors, who used to worship Xenios Zeus, have bequeathed to us a supreme feeling of xenophilia and hospitality. And as a people, Cypriots are famous for their hospitality for centuries now. Books and narrations by foreign travelers for Cyprus have been praising these noble and innate gifts of ours.

So what led us to this? There are many reasons and two-way responsibilities, but it is not the right time to analyze them. I believe, though, that we can and should find a golden mean. Both sides should display a great deal of effort and good will. There should be increased and stricter controls on those who come here either to work for a better future or to study. Measures should be taken to crack down on illegal immigration and to eliminate criminal elements. On the other hand, we should exploit foreign workers less, we should try to de-ghetto them and launch a large enlightenment campaign to stop using abusive racist expressions directed at the aliens and to dismiss any feelings of racism and xenophobia. And we should adopt at last the slogan of the Council of Europe: we are all different, we are all equal.

Taxi driver murdered
POLICE were yesterday investigating the murder of a 63-year-old taxi driver who was found dead in a construction site in Marathounda in the Paphos district.

Michalis Zaharia had been reported missing by his son on Wednesday afternoon.

Police believe the motive behind the crime was robbery as the victim used to carry a lot of cash on him.

His new Mercedes was found abandoned and slightly dented on Ypsilantis Street in Paphos.

He was found dead by a construction worker in a building site on the old Episkopi to Marathounda road.

State pathologist Sophocles Sophocleous said the man had multiple wounds on his back, which were caused by a sharp object and a stone.

It was reported that Zahariou was called to pick up a customer from Episkopi but never returned.

A post mortem will be carried out today at the Paphos hospital.

http://nicosia.ru/en/news/details/294/