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[Tim Drayton]

Bir, didn't you get a headache from those jet fighter screams every morning on Samos? You want that for Cypriots as well?

There is a policy of patience in Greece. So people put up with the daily violations of air space and pay through the nose for weapons and the cost of interceptions. Patience is not exactly lack of animosity.

Two weeks ago the Turkish navy sent a frigate to international waters off Attica. This is not the kind of message friendly nations send to one another. Not the kind of situation we need in Cyprus.

Nikitas, as a journalist, you must realise that the news agenda is manipulated to manufacture public opinion in line with the needs of a country's ruling class. It seems likely to me that such incursions are being perpetrated by both Greek and Turkish military forces. It is just that the media in Greece never reports the former and makes a huge song and dance about the latter. It is all about creating popular paranoia which helps to keep the masses under control.

[halil]

Erdogan said the new President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ought to carry on talks with the same determination.

He said they shared the same views with TRNC's new President, saying that Eroglu repeatedly expressed that he would carry on the settlement talks.

Erdogan said he personally desired Cyprus issue to be solved by the end of the year, noting that the prolongment of the issue on the table bothered both sides.


Turkish President Abdullah Gul congratulated Dervis Eroglu who won the elections in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and became the third president.
"Turkey will continue to support the will of Turkish Cypriot people for the success of the talks," Gul said noting that the elections took place in transparency in a way reflecting political maturity and exemplary democracy of the Turkish Cypriot people.

"I have the full belief that TRNC will be more strong and prosperous and integrate with the international community during your term in office as president," Gul noted.

Gul said Turkey, as the motherland and guarantor country, would continue to fulfill its responsibilities to assist rightful cause of Turkish Cypriot people to achieve its goals.

Gul also expressed his belief that Eroglu would maintain UN comprehensive negotiations for solution with the same dynamism and constructive approach that have been displayed so far and exert any necessary efforts to conclude the talks in the possible soonest time.

"You will always feel determinant support and close cooperation of Turkey for security, welfare and peace of Turkish Cypriot people and in protection of legal rights of Turkish Cypriots being equal owners of the island," Gul underlined.