Cyprus-Forum.com

[BirKibrisli]

So when we getting the resume of Ata Atun?

You sure you've got the time... it's 10 pages long!

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ata Atun is a Turkish Cypriot and was born in 1948 at Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from T.E.D.Ankara College and Şişli College and then attended Al Hikma American University (a branch of Boston University) in Baghdad, Iraq - now the University of Baghdad - for his Civil Engineering studies. Granted with several scholarships, Mr Atun received his BSc degree in 1971. He later undertook graduate study and research in the Computer Analysis Programme of Monolithic Split Foundations at Century University, Los Angeles, USA (now in Albuquerque, New Mexico) receiving an M.Sc. degree in 1987. This was followed by postgraduate study and research into 'Survey and Analysis of the gravels of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus' in the same University, for which he received a Ph.D. Degree in 1989. He completed a post Doctorate Programme held in Washington DC, USA in December 1994, received an Associated Professor degree in 1998 at Near East University and was expecting to be a full Professor on or around December 2004.

Page 6 magazine published his articles and programs on the subjects of Quick Disassembling of Assembly Language and Menu Arrangements in May 1986 and November 1986 respectively. He also wrote an article on Disk Directories which appeared in Nugget Magazine, in April 1986.

His research titled “An estimation of the fish stock of the bay of Famagusta based on recorded catch of trawl fishing-part I” was submitted to Tehnonav International Symposium, Bucharest, Romania in May 2000 and the second part was submitted to 3rd World Congress, Beijing, China in November 2000. Recently, his findings were published by the Wessex Institute of Technology in STREMAH 2003.

Mr Atun is the author of many academic books: Technical Drawing, Ed.1 (1993) , Ed.2 (2001) Text Book, TD102 Course; Plane Surveying with Linear Measurement Text Book, CE202 Course; ACI Standarts vs TS500 Standarts, Reference hand book and Structural Design Text Book, TD486 Course, Basic Ship Stability Text Book, MDNRC 212, Ship Construction for Merchant Marine Officers, Text Book, MDNRC 201, Mathematics-1 , Basics of Calculus Text Book, MATH 101 , Mathematics-2 , Plane Trigonometry and Elementary Calculus Text Book, MATH 102 , Statics & Dynamics (Lecture Notes), Mathematics-4 , Complex Numbers & Differentiation (Lecture Notes), all written in English, now currently in use in Near East University of North Cyprus.

He is the founder of SAMTAY FOUNDATION, a research and literature foundation whose objective is to “transform the past and present of the Town of Famagusta on to documents to be carried to the future.” The foundation released 10 books about the various parts of the cultural history of the Turkish community in Cyprus. He is the author of MAGUSA YAZILARI, a history of the town of Famagusta between 66 B.C. - 772 A.D. He is also researching the Dominican church which once existed in the town of Famagusta prior to 1571, though no trace is available now. His research on the names of towns, rivers, places, mountains and lakes of Cyprus, amounting to nearly 865, which rapidly changed due to at least 13 different reigns since 450 B.C. is complete and his book titled “Names of Locations of Cyprus lost in the depths of 2500 years of history”, including a bilingual map of Cyprus, was released in January 2005. He completed his research and works on a book of 1500 pages in 3 volumes about the “Medieval History of Cyprus based on written manuscripts” by compiling and translating the manuscripts and letters of European travellers visiting Cyprus between 400 B.C. – 1900 A.D., and the first volume was released in March 2005.

Mr Atun went in for politics in 1976 and was elected as a Member of Parliament, representing the constituency of Famagusta in the National Assembly. He was appointed as an advisor to Mr. Serdar Denktash, the president of the Democratic Party of North Cyprus in January 2002, and had an active role in the opening of the borders (check points) between North Cyprus (Turkish sector) and South Cyprus (Greek sector) on 23rd April 2003.

He was appointed as the Chief Negotiator and the Team Leader to the Turkish Cyprus Delegation for the sub committee discussions between Cyprus Turkish Cypriots and Cyprus Greek Cypriots, organized under the auspices of the United Nations, in February, March and April 2004.

He- has been the head of the board of directors of the local newspaper “Cumhuriyet Kuzey Kıbrıs” since September 2003 and an independent (newspaper) writer mainly in the topics of European Union, Democracy and the Political situation in Cyprus. He was appointed as the Chairman to the National development Bank in January 2005.

Mr Atun is married to Suna Atun and father of son Sunat and daughter Asu.

Ata Atun, March 2005

http://www.megaone.com/samtay/index.htm

What are we fishing today then?

Would you like to employ him?

So Sunat Atun is the son of Ata...He has become a minister in the new trnc government...The Atuns are on the rise...DT will be very pleased...

Why?

I was being ironic!

Never mind Irony, do you have a steam iron? iron the swine.

Go easy on,DT,YFred...His only problem is the company he keeps...

[BirKibrisli]

On introducing his teams, Eroglu said the negotiations would be approached on a “four links in a chain” basis. The first link, he said, would involve himself and his core team, while the second link would involve his negotiations advisory board. The third link will constitute the formation of a “National Council” or “parliamentary platform”, and the forth would stem from a “People’s Council”, which would involve the participation and contribution of NGOs and business groups.

More here:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/surpr ... m/20100520

[Get Real!]

I think I just found Ata Atun's resume...

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=12985

[BirKibrisli]

Hands off Ata Atun...He is the rising star of the trnc...Well,at least his son is...

[halil]

TRNC Negotiating team announced last night , here is the team
Taner Erginel, İsmail Bozkurt, Ata Atun, Ergün Olgun, Erol Kaymak, Ülker Fahri, Murat Tüzünkan, Zeliha Khasman and privative representer of Eroğlu is Dr.Kudret Özersay

Surprises additions in Eroglu’s negotiating team

By Simon Bahceli Published on May 20 (Cyprus Mail)

AN ECLECTIC group of negotiators and advisers will make up Dervish Eroglu’s negotiating teams when he sits down with President Demetris Christofias for the restart of reunification negotiations next Wednesday.

Eroglu announced his “core negotiating team”, along with a list of members that make up his “negotiations advisory council”, at a cocktail party held at north Nicosia’s Merit Hotel on Tuesday night.

Eroglu named his chief adviser as Kutred Ozersay, an international law expert who featured largely in former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat’s negotiating team. As well as continuing his role as legal adviser, Ozersay will coordinate the Turkish Cypriot side’s overall approach to negotiations.

Speaking to the Cyprus Mail yesterday, Ozersay said his team had already begun formulating “new and creative approaches to concrete issues”.

“There is harmony and good co-operation,” he added.

Ozersay, 38, was instrumental in the establishment of the Immovable Properties Commission (IPC), a body set up by the north’s administration to provide compensation or the re-institution of property rights to Greek Cypriot refugees who lost properties during the Turkish invasion in 1974.

The IPC was recently approved by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) as a body that provides an “effective local remedy” to property disputes on the island, a move that was widely seen as a major achievement for the Turkish Cypriot side.

Equally, the IPC’s establishment is also seen as a major concession on the part of Turkey and the north as its formation represents an admittance that the human rights of Greek Cypriots were violated en masse during the invasion.

Other members of the core team include Oguzhan Hasipoglu, a lawyer described by those who know him as “liberal and open minded” and Kemal Gokeri, who previously manned the ‘TRNC’ representation office in New York. Added to the list are two secretaries from the ‘foreign ministry’, Seniha Birand and Gulfem Veziroglu Sevgili, and translator Ozlem Ince.

But it is the “negotiations advisory board” that carries some of the most surprising and politically varied names. At one end of the political spectrum is Ergun Olgun, a long-time adviser to former hard line Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash. Despite his previous insistence on the continuation of the current two state setup on the island, he yesterday told the Cyprus Mail that he joined the team in the hope that he could help the two ethnic groups on the island find a “mutually acceptable solution” adding: “Both sides need to look into ways of compromising. Each side cannot only look at its own interests”.

At the other end is the spectrum is Ulker Fahri, a member of the north’s far-left Jasmine Movement, an organisation that openly calls for the removal of Turkish soldiers and settlers from the north. On the academic front are international relations experts Erol Kaymak, Murat Tuzunkan and Zeliha Khashman. Kaymak is known as someone who does not shy away from criticising the north’s authorities when he sees fit, and has at least once been branded a “traitor” by nationalists at the university where he teaches.

Added to these are what could be described two “old schoolers”, namely the north’s former ‘attorney general’ Taner Erginel and politician and writer Ata Atun.

On introducing his teams, Eroglu said the negotiations would be approached on a “four links in a chain” basis. The first link, he said, would involve himself and his core team, while the second link would involve his negotiations advisory board. The third link will constitute the formation of a “National Council” or “parliamentary platform”, and the forth would stem from a “People’s Council”, which would involve the participation and contribution of NGOs and business groups.

Sounding decidedly conciliatory, Eroglu on Tuesday night said, “As the Turkish Cypriot side it is our aim and intention to continue negotiations where they left off”. He added, however, that Greek Cypriot president Christofias should “refrain from calling on Turkish Cypriots to give up their insistence on equal sovereign rights”.

“I cannot negotiate on a basis that will lead to the demise of the Turkish Cypriots,” he said.

[YFred]

Where is all my GC friends who were celebrating that Eroglu couldn't put two words together?
They seem to have gone very silent for a while.

[growuptcs]

Where is all my GC friends who were celebrating that Eroglu couldn't put two words together?
They seem to have gone very silent for a while.

Wait till everyone's on the court before you call your touch fouls.