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[ZoC]

wot's happening up north?

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11 protestors arrested during a peaceful demonstration in northern part of Cyprus,

Today, on Wednesday, 18 May 2011, the former Cyprus Turkish Airlines (KTHY) employees and a group of supporters from various trade unions and political parties have organised a demonstration to demand the social rights of former KTHY employees. As is known, KTHY was the sole airline company of the Turkish Cypriot Community with a capacity of around 400 employees and went bankrupt and was closed down by the Turkish Cypriot administration back in November 2010.

Since then, the former employees have been claiming their rights by setting up a tent next to the premises of the Airlines in order to ask for their various social rights and they have been waiting to be paid their salaries for over the last seven months.

On 11 May 2011, the employees have carried out a protest in front of the “Ministry of Transport” and demanded that the authorities give them a final clarification concerning their situation. The administration’s answer was that this would be decided at next week’s meeting. Today, the employees gathered peacefully in front of the ‘Prime Ministry’ starting at 10:00am. The police have taken extraordinary precautions as a method of psychological threat.

The employees were not given any clarifications as they were promised. On top of this, “Prime Minister” Kucuk described the protestors as terrorists which has, in turn, raised the tension.

Following the statement, the protestors went on and blocked the main road in a sit down protest. Around 8:00 pm, eleven people were arrested without being given any previous warning, during this passive peaceful demonstration. Four of whom were New Cyprus Party members: Nevzat Hami New Cyprus Party’s (YKP) Member of the Executive Board and General Secretary of YKP Youth, Mehmet Karadag YKP’s Nicosia District Secretary and Party Council Member, Oncel Polili YKP’s Nicosia District member and lawyer of the Turkish Cypriot Human Rights Foundation and Salih Batak Yenicag Newspaper’s Coordinator which belongs to YKP.

The eleven protestors were dragged to the police van during which they have suffered minor injuries. Since then all of them are being kept in Nicosia Police Headquarter in a room of 2m X 4m dimensions.

We strongly condemn the non-proportionate force used by the police authorities that are under the control of the Turkish military forces of the occupation regime in the northern part of Cyprus. As it is known, the northern part of Cyprus, which is defined as the subordinate local administration of Turkey. The police receive orders from the Chief Commander of the Turkish Cypriot army who is appointed directly by Ankara.

Turkey is directly responsible for this action. We demand the immediate release of all the eleven protestors and we thus call upon all political groups and organisations of Europe to react and show their reaction directly to Ankara, to the President of Turkey, the Prime Minister of Turkey and the Chief Commander of the Turkish Army and show international solidarity to the Turkish Cypriots activists who were arrested.

[apc2010]

Any chance of a link please .........

[bill cobbett]

Any chance of a link please .........

Hateh reh Zoc... source please.

[quattro]

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... .788644681

[yorgozlu]

http://www.kibrisgazetesi.com/popup.php ... c_Haberler

[bill cobbett]

Thanks for the links boys.... Kyrialaisson... one leads to a "content not currently available page" and the other's in blooming Turkish.

Less than happy, ...was so looking forward to being able to condemn the Illegal Regime and The Turkish Army/"police" for the outrage, where CYs peacefully demonstrating, as is their right, are kidnapped, assaulted, bundled in to cars and thrown in to black holes.

[bill cobbett]

Well one confirmation in English from Cyprus News Reports which reports Kibris as saying...

"Kibris reports that “saddening events” happened yesterday during a protest organized by employees of the bankrupted Turkish Cypriot airlines (“KTHY”) in front of the 'prime minister’s' office.

People were ready to explode with anger and a row was created, writes the paper.

The protesters threw eggs and bottles of water against Kucuk and one police officer was injured during the protest. The tension reached to peak when the police arrested eleven protesters and took them to the police station."

[ZoC]

Any chance of a link please .........

Hateh reh Zoc... source please.

sorry guys. i copied and pasted statement off someone's facebook page. i omitted a link, name etc. to protect the innocent... doesn't say who the statement's from (ie. organisation)...

[bill cobbett]

Any chance of a link please .........

Hateh reh Zoc... source please.

sorry guys. i copied and pasted statement off someone's facebook page. i omitted a link, name etc. to protect the innocent... doesn't say who the statement's from (ie. organisation)...

We weel steel keel you Zoc...

[quattro]

Thanks for the links boys.... Kyrialaisson... one leads to a "content not currently available page" and the other's in blooming Turkish.

Less than happy, ...was so looking forward to being able to condemn the Illegal Regime and The Turkish Army/"police" for the outrage, where CYs peacefully demonstrating, as is their right, are kidnapped, assaulted, bundled in to cars and thrown in to black holes.

the link is ok billc