halil wrote:Tension was still hot on TRNC political arena today again ..........
How difficult for Talat to work at talks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Cyprus Turkish Platform has demanded the formation of a new negotiation team to act as a multi-party “Cyprus Turkish National Council” at the Cyprus negotiation process.
In a written statement, the Platform’s Press Secretary Huseyin Alasya claimed that the political equality of two founding states as sovereign states was not discussed during the negotiation process and called on President Mehmet Ali Talat to put the Turkish side’s sine qua nons at the table.
Commenting on the Turkish Side’s proposals and the statements made by members of the negotiation team, he claimed that members of the team were representatives of certain political ideology and that they were not representing the will of the Cyprus Turkish People.
He said ‘they are misleading our people. They are trying to present the election of members of the Presidential Council from the so-called “single list” as political equality’.
DEMOCRAT PARTY CALLS THE PROPOSAL ON EXECUTIVE UNACCEPTABLE
The Democrat Party has criticized Tufan Erhurman, a member of the Cyprus Turkish side’s negotiation team for his recent statement on the proposal concerning the federal executive – on which a debate has been going on.
DP Foreign Affairs Secretary Bengu Sonya said Mr Erhurman’s statement did not fully reflect the reality.
Bengu Sonya criticized the law expert Tufan Erhurman for confusing the minds of the TRNC people by trying to explain how the Greek Cypriot side will agree on the principle of ‘two separate democracies’.
Adding that the second round of Cyprus peace talks took the start with artificial problems created by the Greek Cypriot Side, Mr Sonya stated that the Turkish Side’s proposal on single list of candidates for federal presidency was completely unacceptable.
In an interview with the TAK News Agency, Associate Professor Erhurman said that the proposal envisaged a coalition and cooperation among Turkish and Greek Cypriot political parties in the establishment of the federal government to be.
He added however that senators will be elected separately by the two peoples of Cyprus and thus the principle of ‘two separate democracies’ will not be removed.
On rotatory presidency, which is a ‘must’ for the Turkish side, Erhurman said the Greek Cypriot side agreed on this.
