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[bill cobbett]

Wilfred Martens, the President of the European People's Party has condemned Turkey over the " arrests" at Ayia Zoni, Occupied Famagusta.


From ... http://www.epp.eu/press.asp?artid=1556&fullview=1

...."The President of the European People's Party (EPP), Wilfried Martens, was briefed yesterday by the President of the Democratic Rally of Cyprus (DISY), Nicos Anastasiades, on the weekend arrest of EPP MEPs, former MEP Yannakis Matsis, civilians, and clerics in occupied Famagusta, by Turkish military forces. The group was visiting abandoned churches and monuments. The MEPs and clerics have been released but former MEP Yannakis Matsis remains in detention:

"I am astonished by this incident. The Turkish military forces do not have the right to arrest current and former European parliamentarians and other European citizens, who were there on a mission to examine the current state of religious monuments in the ghost-town of Famagusta. I call on the immmediate release of former MEP Yannakis Matsis and all those who remain in detention," the EPP President stated...."



(The EPP is the largest and most influential European-level political party of the centre-right, which currently includes 73 member-parties from 39 countries, the Presidents of the Commission, Council, and Parliament, 15 EU and 6 non-EU heads of state and government, 13 members of the European Commission and the largest Group in the European Parliament.)

[Viewpoint]

They broke the law.

[Hermes]

They broke the law.

"The Turkish military forces do not have the right to arrest current and former European parliamentarians and other European citizens, who were there on a mission to examine the current state of religious monuments in the ghost-town of Famagusta."

[Viewpoint]

They broke the law.

"The Turkish military forces do not have the right to arrest current and former European parliamentarians and other European citizens, who were there on a mission to examine the current state of religious monuments in the ghost-town of Famagusta."

Why? it is a highly restricted military area, you would arrested anywhere in the world where you just stroll into a restricted area.

[B25]

They broke the law.

You are apseudo everything, no such mick mouse 'law' exists.
Idiot

[B25]

They broke the law.

"The Turkish military forces do not have the right to arrest current and former European parliamentarians and other European citizens, who were there on a mission to examine the current state of religious monuments in the ghost-town of Famagusta."

Why? it is a highly restricted military area, you would arrested anywhere in the world where you just stroll into a restricted area.

Yeah, pull the other F one, its got bells on it FFS. It's advertised as a tourist attraction how can it be a 'highly restricted area' F prick.

[Viewpoint]

They broke the law.

You are apseudo everything, no such mick mouse 'law' exists.
Idiot

Tell that to the people who ended up in jail.

[Hermes]

Why? it is a highly restricted military area.

A church? What is the Turkish army concealing there? A new secret weapon? A Turkish donkey disguised as a nuclear bomb? Please tell us. Oh wait, you can't because it's a military secret. Bloody fools.

[Viewpoint]

Why? it is a highly restricted military area.

A church? What is the Turkish army concealing there? A new secret weapon? A Turkish donkey disguised as a nuclear bomb? Please tell us. Oh wait, you can't because it's a military secret. Bloody fools.

The church is located clearly in the restricted area.

[EricSeans]

Please be careful in that area, folks. I was taken prisoner by the Turkish army in there once. Not a happy experience - a weapon was made ready to shoot me.

I fully agree though that the TA shouldn't be there in the first place, therefore there's no legal validity to their rules.

Is this church the modernist concrete one not far from Smoky Joe's restaurant, near Cicero Str, or is it the older one at the fence that the Turks sometimes allow visitors into?