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[insan]

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NG reject claims Turk army cut by half

STRENGTH STILL OVER 40,000 IN ATTACK FORMATION

By Philippos Stylianou

UNFYCYP claims that the Turkish occupation army has been slashed in half to just 21,000 troops have been strongly rejected by the National Guard.

UNFICYP Chief of Staff, British Colonel Gerald Hughes, presented the dramatically reduced figures to Greek and Turkish Cypriot political parties at their latest joint meeting in the UN-controlled Ledra Palace Hotel under the auspices of the Slovak Embassy.

The House Defence Committee then asked the Chief of the National Guard and his staff to brief them on the strength of Turkey’s occupation forces on the island.

Committee chairman Yiannakis Omirou told journalists after a closed session yesterday: “The National Guard leadership, using data which are unshakable and beyond any shadow of doubt, informed the committee that the personnel of the occupation army is 42,000-43,000 strong.”

[Get Real!]

Before making a dumb assumption like “Paranoia and fantasy of Yiannakis Omirou”, you should use your common sense to figure out that the only parties who know what the “other side” is doing are the two sides themselves who have spent the last 35 years spying on each other.

UNFICYP can only ask Turkey for numbers and does not have the technology, time, or responsibility to keep track of what comes and what goes to the occupied territory of Cyprus but the National Guard does…

[Paphitis]

Before making a dumb assumption like “Paranoia and fantasy of Yiannakis Omirou”, you should use your common sense to figure out that the only parties who know what the “other side” is doing are the two sides themselves who have spent the last 35 years spying on each other.

UNFICYP can only ask Turkey for numbers and does not have the technology, time, or responsibility to keep track of what comes and what goes to the occupied territory of Cyprus but the National Guard does…

Am I seeing things or what? Maybe it was the beer the night before, but for crying out loud, I thought I saw Insan assume that Yiannakis Omirou is paranoid and living in fantasy.

I guess the TCs can't be paranoid by insisting on Guarantees which we will NEVER accept.

[insan]

Before making a dumb assumption like “Paranoia and fantasy of Yiannakis Omirou”, you should use your common sense to figure out that the only parties who know what the “other side” is doing are the two sides themselves who have spent the last 35 years spying on each other.

UNFICYP can only ask Turkey for numbers and does not have the technology, time, or responsibility to keep track of what comes and what goes to the occupied territory of Cyprus but the National Guard does…

Confirmed by US and UK secret eyes. U can't claim that they r not better than KIP.

[Get Real!]

Before making a dumb assumption like “Paranoia and fantasy of Yiannakis Omirou”, you should use your common sense to figure out that the only parties who know what the “other side” is doing are the two sides themselves who have spent the last 35 years spying on each other.

UNFICYP can only ask Turkey for numbers and does not have the technology, time, or responsibility to keep track of what comes and what goes to the occupied territory of Cyprus but the National Guard does…

Confirmed by US and UK secret eyes. U can't claim that they r not better than KIP.

What secret eyes you Hollywood fool? Are you going to compare the spying from a satellite which the US/UK would have to use to spying from the Troodos mountains right next to the “TRNC”? …And not to mention that Hellasat is a joint project between Greece & Cyprus or did you think that when people say “Cyprus” they mean the shit-hole enclave of the occupied territory still stuck in the 50s?

[halil]

counting every soldiers by one by one .... what a funny .....

Insan , how they can make their propaganda man .... never excepting the figures ..... they puts some numbers in their minds always and keep increasing it everyday . Just trying to hide their armament race .

[Oracle]

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NG reject claims Turk army cut by half

STRENGTH STILL OVER 40,000 IN ATTACK FORMATION

By Philippos Stylianou

UNFYCYP claims that the Turkish occupation army has been slashed in half to just 21,000 troops have been strongly rejected by the National Guard.

UNFICYP Chief of Staff, British Colonel Gerald Hughes, presented the dramatically reduced figures to Greek and Turkish Cypriot political parties at their latest joint meeting in the UN-controlled Ledra Palace Hotel under the auspices of the Slovak Embassy.

The House Defence Committee then asked the Chief of the National Guard and his staff to brief them on the strength of Turkey’s occupation forces on the island.

Committee chairman Yiannakis Omirou told journalists after a closed session yesterday: “The National Guard leadership, using data which are unshakable and beyond any shadow of doubt, informed the committee that the personnel of the occupation army is 42,000-43,000 strong.”

If they have cut the number of troops, why would that be?
Either:
1) Turkey has been told to do so, by the EU and now it's finally doing it with its tail between its legs.
or
2) Turkey is bankrupt and has realised the TCs aren't worth it.

But more likely, they are just lying that they have cut the troops because when Turkey are told to do something, they think its enough to just lie and hope no one notices ....

Either way, every single one will have to go .....

RADIKAL
-- WORST SITUATION OF LAST 18 YEARS IN INDUSTRY
Turkey is feeling the impacts of global economic crisis more each day. Regression in domestic market and exports amount badly hit the capacity utilization in industry. Capacity utilization rate in industry in January dropped to the lowest rate of the last 18 years. It decreased 16.5 points to 63.8 percent in January, 2009 when compared to January, 2008.

[insan]

counting every soldiers by one by one .... what a funny .....

Insan , how they can make their propaganda man .... never excepting the figures ..... they puts some numbers in their minds always and keep increasing it everyday . Just trying to hide their armament race .

They r living in their fantasy island, Halil. They think, what they saw in their fantasy is real. One day they will wake up, no doubt.

[CBBB]

UN should explain comment on Turkish troop numbers
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
(archive article - Friday, February 6, 2009)
UNFICYP’S British commander might be invited to the House Defence Committee to explain why he said the number of Turkish troops in the north had dropped to 21,000 from the 45,000 generally believed to be deployed there.

During a closed session yesterday Committee chairman Yiannakis Omirou called on the government to intervene, after he received “irrefutable” information that there hadn’t been a reduction in Turkish troops in the north as was claimed by the British UNFICYP commander, he said.

Omirou said the National Guard chief informed the Committee that there were more than double that amount of soldiers in the occupied areas than the number claimed by the UNFICYP commander.

It was of vital importance that the UN Secretary General be immediately informed about this, Omirou said.

Speaking after the meeting, Omirou said the National Guard Chief had “irrefutable information”, which proved without a shadow of a doubt that there were currently around 43,000 soldiers in the north – as opposed to the 21,000 claimed by the UNFICYP commander.

Furthermore, he added that the Turkish army was constantly being upgraded and was on complete aggression mode.

“Similar claims were made before by UNFICYP. In 2003 a claim was made that the occupying army had been reduced to 28,000 men,” said Omirou. “However, the Chief of the Turkish Armed Forces, General Buyukanit, publicly stated in 2006 that that the number of Turkish soldiers in Cyprus was 40,000.”

In view of this, Omirou said the Committee would invite the British UNFICYP commander to offer explanations for his statements “so there can be an intense and categorical rebuttal”.

Asked if he felt that there was any motive behind the UNFICYP statement, the EDEK leader said there was no doubt that such false and misleading statements had some reasons hiding behind them.

The Foreign Ministry, he added, must take the necessary actions and inform the UN Secretary General on what is going on, so the truth can be restored.

Asked if the Cyprus Republic was in a position to prove these claims, Omirou said the National Guard had “complete and irrefutable” evidence, which could not be doubted.

UNFICYP spokesman Jose Diaz said later yesterday that the force had not made any official estimate of the number of Turkish troops in the north. He said the British commander, referred to must have been making a comment rather than an official statement as to numbers.

“I can tell you with certainty that we don’t have figures of troop numbers on either side,” said Diaz “Even if we wanted to we have no way of verifying the numbers”.

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[yialousa1971]

Before making a dumb assumption like “Paranoia and fantasy of Yiannakis Omirou”, you should use your common sense to figure out that the only parties who know what the “other side” is doing are the two sides themselves who have spent the last 35 years spying on each other.

UNFICYP can only ask Turkey for numbers and does not have the technology, time, or responsibility to keep track of what comes and what goes to the occupied territory of Cyprus but the National Guard does…

Confirmed by US and UK secret eyes. U can't claim that they r not better than KIP.

Eyes that lie and are pro Turkish.