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[Kifeas]

Talat crossed into South Cyprus through the Lokmacı Gate(Ledra) on foot and walked to the headquarters of the newspaper for an interview.

Later on U will able to read his interview at Cyprus mail .

Rumors have it that he visited the Cyprus Mail to thank them for their ongoing support to the Turkish cause, and to also deliver a check drawn by Davutoglu.

[YFred]

Talat crossed into South Cyprus through the Lokmacı Gate(Ledra) on foot and walked to the headquarters of the newspaper for an interview.

Later on U will able to read his interview at Cyprus mail .

Rumors have it that he visited the Cyprus Mail to thank them for their ongoing support to the Turkish cause, and to also deliver a check drawn by Davutoglu.

That’s below the belt and not befitting of a serious man like you.

[Kifeas]

Talat crossed into South Cyprus through the Lokmacı Gate(Ledra) on foot and walked to the headquarters of the newspaper for an interview.

Later on U will able to read his interview at Cyprus mail .

Rumors have it that he visited the Cyprus Mail to thank them for their ongoing support to the Turkish cause, and to also deliver a check drawn by Davutoglu.

That’s below the belt and not befitting of a serious man like you.

YFred, it is a well known fact that Turkey allocates in its annual budget and spends about one (1) billion dollars in international public Relations, advertising, publicity and propaganda. I will accept that Cyprus Mail is not one of those on the receiving end of this huge amount, neither the ICG (international "crisis" group) and his thick tank contributors, nor the Financial Times and some other British and US papers; if you point to me where all these one million millions of dollars are spend!

Who receives all this money? Where is all this money spend at, if those I mentioned above and who consistently and systematically appear to be the vanguard of Turkish propaganda and thesis, are not among the prime recipients of it? Any idea?

[halil]

Talat crossed into South Cyprus through the Lokmacı Gate(Ledra) on foot and walked to the headquarters of the newspaper for an interview.

Later on U will able to read his interview at Cyprus mail .

Rumors have it that he visited the Cyprus Mail to thank them for their ongoing support to the Turkish cause, and to also deliver a check drawn by Davutoglu.

That’s below the belt and not befitting of a serious man like you.

YFred, He knows from himself . That is what they were doing all those years . Buying the politicians .Who ever is not share the same view with them they are blackmailing as Turkish lover .Lately example is about Downer now .

[halil]

nice.. and he felt safe without 40k troops crossing to the south? to hold his hand.

ty for the post it will be intresting to see what was said

Ice creams, cosmetics and picture frames during leader’s Ledra walk
By Stefanos Evripidou

WITHOUT YET securing an end to the division, Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat walked from the Ledra Street crossing to the Cyprus Mail offices yesterday and was received like a celebrity by members of the public.

Along with an entourage of around ten aides and security guards, all suited, Talat was greeted at every step by tourists and locals alike as he walked down Ledra Street towards the paper’s offices.

One American tourist, seeing a plethora of cameras and flashlights, figured this man in a red striped tie and dark suit must be important so went to shake his hand. Talat responded with a friendly, “I have been to America”.

Further down, a shopkeeper shocked the security detail by lunging at the Turkish Cypriot leader with a brown paper bag. It was full of goodies from his shop, soaps and the like. “Because you work very hard, I thought you might need these,” he said.

A few metres later, another shopkeeper ran up to shake his hand and show him the photo she had framed of the two of them together the last time he crossed over. Talat took it all in his stride, laughing, shaking hands and throwing out the odd bit of Greek.

Just when you thought it was safe to move on towards the Cyprus Mail where he planned to meet with staff for a chin-wag and some light lunch, the Heraclis Ice-cream parlour owner called out to the Turkish Cypriot politician, inviting him to sit down for a free scoop of the soft stuff.

Talat politely declined, saying he’d take him up on the offer on his return. Turning the corner and the entourage ran into Mr Shandris, the restaurant owner who fed him last time Talat visited the Politis offices nearby.

“Ah, how is your garden, good?” asked Talat, in reference to the free bag of home-grown mandarins the restaurant owner had gifted him on his last visit to the neighbourhood.

“Oh, my mandarins, very good,” replied Shandris.

At the Mail, the leader received a tour of the paper’s humble offices, squeezing past the dozen or so camera-wielding strangers that had piled in to document the tour. At some point through all the handshakes, it became difficult to distinguish between the entourage, the media, innocent bystanders, plain-clothed intelligence officers and Cyprus Mail employees. Following a two-hour talk and light lunch, Talat returned to the Ledra crossing, hailing on his way two Turkish Cypriots in a pick-up truck.



Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2009



Yaaa my friend Palio ,

People are fed up with this stupid politics . I am sure if your leader has got a balls like Talat has and walks true to Arasta street he will also well come like talat had .These kinds of contacts will help tp build up trust between ordinary citizans of the Island.

[YFred]

Talat crossed into South Cyprus through the Lokmacı Gate(Ledra) on foot and walked to the headquarters of the newspaper for an interview.

Later on U will able to read his interview at Cyprus mail .

Rumors have it that he visited the Cyprus Mail to thank them for their ongoing support to the Turkish cause, and to also deliver a check drawn by Davutoglu.

That’s below the belt and not befitting of a serious man like you.

YFred, it is a well known fact that Turkey allocates in its annual budget and spends about one (1) billion dollars in international public Relations, advertising, publicity and propaganda. I will accept that Cyprus Mail is not one of those on the receiving end of this huge amount, neither the ICG (international "crisis" group) and his thick tank contributors, nor the Financial Times and some other British and US papers; if you point to me where all these one million millions of dollars are spend!

Who receives all this money? Where is all this money spend at, if those I mentioned above and who consistently and systematically appear to be the vanguard of Turkish propaganda and thesis, are not among the prime recipients of it? Any idea?

Sorry, same reply as above.

[Nikitas]

Kifeas,

The money is not paid directly. But in some mysterious ways the papers that do promote a cause find that advertising contracts suddenly flow their way. The journalistic world is full of these "guns for hire" and I do not see why YFred is offended by such references.

The promotion of the Annan plan to the Greek public stands as one of the "fine rmoments" of mercenary journalism. Except that some local hirelings, in their effort to prove that they were worth the money, forgot their basic history and accused Matsis and Afxentiou of carrying out ethnic cleansing in the 1960s.

[paliometoxo]

nice.. and he felt safe without 40k troops crossing to the south? to hold his hand.

ty for the post it will be intresting to see what was said

Ice creams, cosmetics and picture frames during leader’s Ledra walk
By Stefanos Evripidou

WITHOUT YET securing an end to the division, Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat walked from the Ledra Street crossing to the Cyprus Mail offices yesterday and was received like a celebrity by members of the public.

Along with an entourage of around ten aides and security guards, all suited, Talat was greeted at every step by tourists and locals alike as he walked down Ledra Street towards the paper’s offices.

One American tourist, seeing a plethora of cameras and flashlights, figured this man in a red striped tie and dark suit must be important so went to shake his hand. Talat responded with a friendly, “I have been to America”.

Further down, a shopkeeper shocked the security detail by lunging at the Turkish Cypriot leader with a brown paper bag. It was full of goodies from his shop, soaps and the like. “Because you work very hard, I thought you might need these,” he said.

A few metres later, another shopkeeper ran up to shake his hand and show him the photo she had framed of the two of them together the last time he crossed over. Talat took it all in his stride, laughing, shaking hands and throwing out the odd bit of Greek.

Just when you thought it was safe to move on towards the Cyprus Mail where he planned to meet with staff for a chin-wag and some light lunch, the Heraclis Ice-cream parlour owner called out to the Turkish Cypriot politician, inviting him to sit down for a free scoop of the soft stuff.

Talat politely declined, saying he’d take him up on the offer on his return. Turning the corner and the entourage ran into Mr Shandris, the restaurant owner who fed him last time Talat visited the Politis offices nearby.

“Ah, how is your garden, good?” asked Talat, in reference to the free bag of home-grown mandarins the restaurant owner had gifted him on his last visit to the neighbourhood.

“Oh, my mandarins, very good,” replied Shandris.

At the Mail, the leader received a tour of the paper’s humble offices, squeezing past the dozen or so camera-wielding strangers that had piled in to document the tour. At some point through all the handshakes, it became difficult to distinguish between the entourage, the media, innocent bystanders, plain-clothed intelligence officers and Cyprus Mail employees. Following a two-hour talk and light lunch, Talat returned to the Ledra crossing, hailing on his way two Turkish Cypriots in a pick-up truck.



Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2009



Yaaa my friend Palio ,

People are fed up with this stupid politics . I am sure if your leader has got a balls like Talat has and walks true to Arasta street he will also well come like talat had .These kinds of contacts will help tp build up trust between ordinary citizans of the Island.

i can imagine the turks who try beat him up or something...

i bet the turks woudl ask him or a Id card to.. just like they where throwing stones and screaming at tassos..

[halil]

nice.. and he felt safe without 40k troops crossing to the south? to hold his hand.

ty for the post it will be intresting to see what was said

Ice creams, cosmetics and picture frames during leader’s Ledra walk
By Stefanos Evripidou

WITHOUT YET securing an end to the division, Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat walked from the Ledra Street crossing to the Cyprus Mail offices yesterday and was received like a celebrity by members of the public.

Along with an entourage of around ten aides and security guards, all suited, Talat was greeted at every step by tourists and locals alike as he walked down Ledra Street towards the paper’s offices.

One American tourist, seeing a plethora of cameras and flashlights, figured this man in a red striped tie and dark suit must be important so went to shake his hand. Talat responded with a friendly, “I have been to America”.

Further down, a shopkeeper shocked the security detail by lunging at the Turkish Cypriot leader with a brown paper bag. It was full of goodies from his shop, soaps and the like. “Because you work very hard, I thought you might need these,” he said.

A few metres later, another shopkeeper ran up to shake his hand and show him the photo she had framed of the two of them together the last time he crossed over. Talat took it all in his stride, laughing, shaking hands and throwing out the odd bit of Greek.

Just when you thought it was safe to move on towards the Cyprus Mail where he planned to meet with staff for a chin-wag and some light lunch, the Heraclis Ice-cream parlour owner called out to the Turkish Cypriot politician, inviting him to sit down for a free scoop of the soft stuff.

Talat politely declined, saying he’d take him up on the offer on his return. Turning the corner and the entourage ran into Mr Shandris, the restaurant owner who fed him last time Talat visited the Politis offices nearby.

“Ah, how is your garden, good?” asked Talat, in reference to the free bag of home-grown mandarins the restaurant owner had gifted him on his last visit to the neighbourhood.

“Oh, my mandarins, very good,” replied Shandris.

At the Mail, the leader received a tour of the paper’s humble offices, squeezing past the dozen or so camera-wielding strangers that had piled in to document the tour. At some point through all the handshakes, it became difficult to distinguish between the entourage, the media, innocent bystanders, plain-clothed intelligence officers and Cyprus Mail employees. Following a two-hour talk and light lunch, Talat returned to the Ledra crossing, hailing on his way two Turkish Cypriots in a pick-up truck.



Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2009



Yaaa my friend Palio ,

People are fed up with this stupid politics . I am sure if your leader has got a balls like Talat has and walks true to Arasta street he will also well come like talat had .These kinds of contacts will help tp build up trust between ordinary citizans of the Island.

i can imagine the turks who try beat him up or something...

i bet the turks woudl ask him or a Id card to.. just like they where throwing stones and screaming at tassos..

How funny u are Palio .........funny .... funny ............
When u stop seeing others lower than yourself than u will understand that u grow up ......... try to be broadminded . take off your glasses mate .

People are in here educated as you are ......... they have arms like u have , they have brain like u have , they eat like u eat , they have cars like u have ........... no difference at all ..... They always well comes to visitors.....

by the way i invite u for a coffee at buyukhan to see how we get on well between each other .

[paliometoxo]

i never said i see others lower then myself... i said i doubt the turks would greet christofias has talat was greeted in the south.. last time i saw tassos had a speach in town and the turks where throwing stones and screaming names.

im nto sure where buyukhan is but sounds good.