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Monday, February 14, 2011
CÜNEYT ÜLSEVER

The Turkish Foreign Ministry, which has gradually been transformed into a puppet master’s election office, is aiming for “zero problems with neighbors” but is failing to attain even friendly relations with northern Cyprus.

The reason is that the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, sees Turkish Cypriots as a bunch of people whose political culture can be transformed into that of its own. The AKP pours money into the northern Cyprus, builds mosques everywhere but has somehow been unable to “tame” Turkish Cypriots!

The most sensible member of the AKP Cabinet, Minister Cemil Çiçek, was affected by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s insult of seeing northern Cyprus as a “servant girl.”

I cannot decide what it is? Is he a minister of the Republic of Turkey or a governor of a colony in northern Cyprus?

I will make a summary of a news article today and then share quotes from Erdoğan and Mehmet Ali Talat, the former northern Cypriot president.

The news story:

“Police led a raid on the house of Soner Yalçın, the daily Hürriyet columnist and Oda TV founder, early in the morning. Four people were detained as part of the ongoing ‘Ergenekon investigation.’ The police search was investigating possible membership in the Ergenekon terror organization and provoking people to hatred and enmity. The police reportedly had a search warrant for other Oda TV managers as well. Regarding the police search in Yalçın’s house, Ergenekon detainee and former daily Cumhuriyet columnist Mustafa Balbay said: ‘We have prepared a list of the next detainees in line. Yalçın was on top of the list. If this is the way of exercising your profession, this is inevitable, we thought. I do not want to reveal others on the list.’”

Republic of Turkey Prime Minister Erdoğan, meanwhile, said: “Fear is not in our politics. There are no efforts at artificial threats, rumors or artificial fears in our policy to survive.”

Former president of northern Cyprus, Mehmet Ali Talat said:

“We have a difference of style with Turkey. People in northern Cyprus criticize each other, but never insult each other. In Turkey, this is being done, however. They’ll get used to our style of communication. Provocateurs are only warned in northern Cyprus unless they apply violence, nothing else is done against them. In Turkey, provocateurs are detained or suppressed or forced to remain silent. As the world is heading toward broader democracy, we cannot narrow our sphere of democracy.”

He is absolutely right!

When the prime minister ordered investigations against politicians who disagree with him, such as Süheyl Batum of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, a prosecutor immediately launched an investigation. The prime minister has also entrusted transformation to security officials who trample on workers merely checking out electricity poles.

On the other side, the former northern Cyprus president defended protestors although he disagrees with them!

It’s being said that Egypt is taking Turkey as an example.

C’mon, my foot!

I’ll also be glad if Turkey doesn’t take after the “military tutelage” in Egypt as an example for a “civilian tutelage” in this country!

As this trend of “modeling” has just begun in the Middle East, is it not better for Turkey to take after northern Cyprus’ culture of democracy?

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2011-02-14

[humanist]

Firstly Tallat isn't an ex president of anything. the military regime does not exist as a country therefore cannot have a president.

Unless TC community is ready to join her sister half this will be old news in a month. If they continue their struggle for freedom and unity then I would say by the end of the year we can have a solution that is Cypriot based.

[Hermes]

CÜNEYT ÜLSEVER

The Turkish Foreign Ministry is aiming for “zero problems with neighbors” but is failing to attain even friendly relations with northern Cyprus.

Got to love this quote.

[ZoC]

CÜNEYT ÜLSEVER

The Turkish Foreign Ministry is aiming for “zero problems with neighbors” but is failing to attain even friendly relations with northern Cyprus.

Got to love this quote.

to be fair, u wouldn't be that friendly if u had to live in a latrine; especially towards those who built it and dumped u there.