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FM AVCI CONTINUES HIS HIGH LEVEL CONTACTS IN NEW YORK

Deputy Prime Minister-Foreign Minister Turgay Avci, who is in New York for the 63rd UN General Assembly session and the annual coordination meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference, has met with the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations- Alain Le Roy.

According to the statement issued from the Press Centre of the TRNC Foreign Ministry, the meeting took place at the UN Headquarters during which the difficulties faced during the operations of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus-UNFICYP, the Turkish school planned to be opened in Limasol in South Cyprus- which the Greek Cypriot Administration did not allow-, and the construction of the Pile-Yigitler road were taken up.

Reminding during the meeting that Greek Cypriot schools are freely operating in the Karpaz region of North Cyprus with almost 57 Greek Cypriot students and more than 20 Greek Cypriot teachers, Foreign Minister Avci said, although the Greek Cypriot side had made a written promise to the UN Secretary-General for the opening of a Turkish school in Limasol in a document issued in 1996, it later did not give the permission for this to happen.
Pointing out that Greek Cypriots are nearly completing the construction work on the roads of Voroklini and Pile, Mr Avci however noted that it is not a comprehensible approach of the Greek Cypriot side when it does not give the necessary permission for the construction of the road between the villages of Pile and Yigitler- despite of the fact that several initiatives were taken on the issue in the past.

Within the framework of his New York contacts, Turgay Avci also gave an interview to the official broadcast institution of the US- the Voice of America.

During the interview, Mr Avci explained his expectations from the negotiations process in Cyprus.

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News from Northern Cyprus.

today is last day of the Ramadan Bayram .

BAN AND DOWNER DISCUSSED THE CYPRUS NEGOTIATIONS PROCESS IN NEW YORK


The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has held a meeting with his Special Advisor on Cyprus Alexander Downer on the negotiations process in Cyprus.
Reports said Mr Downer informed Mr Ban on the latest developments regarding the negotiations process and the two also reviewed the UN efforts aimed at contributing to the solution of the Cyprus problem.

As part of his contacts at the UN Headquarters in New York, Mr Downer is also expected to meet the UN Undersecretary for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe and the Undersecretary-General for UN Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy as well as representatives from countries involved in the Cyprus issue.

Tomorrow, Mr Downer will move on to Washington to meet with officials from the US Department of State.

He will be back in New York with the beginning of next week where he is expected to have informal meetings with representatives of the permanent members of the UN Security Council- the US, UK, France, China and Russia.

‘400 YEARS OF HERITAGE’ IS BEING DISPLAYED IN CENTRAL LONDON

400 Years of Heritage’ exhibition has been launched by the Cyprus Evkaf in London.

The exhibition- which sheds light on the 400-year-long Cyprus history with Evkaf documents- was opened by the Speaker of the Republic’s Assembly Fatma Ekenoglu at the Foreign Press Association in central London.
In her opening address, Mrs Ekenoglu reminded that when the Ottoman Empire took over Cyprus in 1571, all Cyprus habitants from Turkish to Maronites, Greeks and Armenians with different religious and linguistic backgrounds were provided with wide rights and thus, she said, all communities had the opportunity to coexist in cultural harmony.

Explaining that the Evkaf history is actually the Turkish Cypriot history, the Parliamentary Speaker said however that Greek Cypriots later saw themselves as the real owners of Cyprus and perceived Turkish Cypriots as ‘guests’, and they did not want to govern Cyprus jointly with Turkish Cypriots.

Referring to the negotiations process launched between Talat and Christofias, Ekenoglu highlighted the need for Christofias to prove his good will both to the Turkish Cypriot side and the rest of the world and said the removal of isolations on Turkish Cypriots will be a gesture of good will in that sense.

Also speaking at the opening of the exhibition, the Evkaf Manager Hatice Cavlan said the exhibition consists of documents prepared during the Ottoman period in Cyprus between 1571 and 1878.

She noted that Evkaf is an Ottoman tradition and a charity organization which helped those in need.

The Evkaf exhibition will remain open in London until the 4th October and the next stop will be the Belgian capital Brussels later.

[EricSeans]

If Greek language has never been an option in TC schools up to now that's insane. How self-defeating, idiotic and narrow-minded is that? What would the world think that the younger generation of an entire community have been denied the chance to learn the langauge of their neighbours and fellow islanders? I'm not saying I don't know the rationale behind this policy, but an article like this throws it into focus. Madness.

News from the northern Cyprus

Greek Language in Turkish Cypriots Schools.

The government in North Cyprus introduced importanr alternations in the history books four years ago to encourage rapporchment between the 2 sides now the goverment has taken an innovative step, introduction Greek Language lessones as an elective in this year education programmeç
the pilot coursec will be for atrail period of tree years and will be offered in 6 schooles in five differenr discricts.
For the first time students would able to choose to learn Greek .İn addition to popular language courses like French and German and of course the compulsory English courses.

the important contribution the Greek Language courses would bring to process ''Undrestanding your neighbours language is the same thing as understanding your neighbour .'' these language courses will creat opportunties in further meeting needs .

[Viewpoint]

Does the GC south Cyprus have a Turkish Cypriot school? do they have Turkish language classes?

[Get Real!]

Does the GC south Cyprus have a Turkish Cypriot school? do they have Turkish language classes?

It's just so much easier for the tiny TC minority to learn Greek...

Go on! You know you want to...

[Viewpoint]

Does the GC south Cyprus have a Turkish Cypriot school? do they have Turkish language classes?

It's just so much easier for the tiny TC minority to learn Greek...

Go on! You know you want to...

As President Talat stated GC Cyprus promised to provide a TC school in Limasol but never kept their word, but TCs for even smaller GC population has operating a GC school.

As for learning Greek if a solution arrives this is something we will have to tackle but our schools have taken the first steps, what about your side?

[DT.]

Does the GC south Cyprus have a Turkish Cypriot school? do they have Turkish language classes?

It's just so much easier for the tiny TC minority to learn Greek...

Go on! You know you want to...

As President Talat stated GC Cyprus promised to provide a TC school in Limasol but never kept their word, but TCs for even smaller GC population has operating a GC school.

As for learning Greek if a solution arrives this is something we will have to tackle but our schools have taken the first steps, what about your side?

considering your known views and disgust at the greek language as you've repeatedely said before think of your horror when your kids come home speaking greek to each other?

[repulsewarrior]

why as a Turkish Cypriot would you want to cut yourself off from the 80% of inhabitants of this island, who happen to be Grecophone? It would not surprise me still, that in numbers there are more Grecophones who speak Turkish in Cyprus than the other way around. of course, we all speak english, so what, me worry?

Guys, wake up, if Cyprus is to thrive it must be completely transparent in several languages, not only english, perhaps english as a centre, but think! The world is made of bytes and bytes, their traffic is the manna of power.
Take the word "the" and make it ten words through language; shall I slap you on the head again?

"Turks" learning Greek is one small step, imagine, we were better off forty years ago.

[zan]

If Greek language has never been an option in TC schools up to now that's insane. How self-defeating, idiotic and narrow-minded is that? What would the world think that the younger generation of an entire community have been denied the chance to learn the langauge of their neighbours and fellow islanders? I'm not saying I don't know the rationale behind this policy, but an article like this throws it into focus. Madness.

News from the northern Cyprus

Greek Language in Turkish Cypriots Schools.

The government in North Cyprus introduced importanr alternations in the history books four years ago to encourage rapporchment between the 2 sides now the goverment has taken an innovative step, introduction Greek Language lessones as an elective in this year education programmeç
the pilot coursec will be for atrail period of tree years and will be offered in 6 schooles in five differenr discricts.
For the first time students would able to choose to learn Greek .İn addition to popular language courses like French and German and of course the compulsory English courses.

the important contribution the Greek Language courses would bring to process ''Undrestanding your neighbours language is the same thing as understanding your neighbour .'' these language courses will creat opportunties in further meeting needs .

Part and parcel of the Cyprob EricSeans. The question should be, if the "RoC" are the ones that are in legal government and say they represent all Cypriots and also say that they are abiding by the Zurich agreement then why are they not teaching Turkish????? The onus is on them....We are still living in limbo.........We are entrenched and under siege.....Our physiology has to be to break that siege and not allow the many facets of that siege to take a hold....It would be foolish to help them now wouldn't it...

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Oh shit, Zan woke up and is adding his vitriolic comments to every thread!