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Cakici warns that another 200 thousand persons will be granted the “citizenship” of the regime under the new “draft-law”

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Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris (24.05.11)

Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris (24.05.11) reports that Mehmet Cakici, chairman of the Social Democracy Party (TDP), has said that the new “draft-law” regarding the “citizenship” would be tantamount to granting the “citizenship” of the breakaway regime to another 200 thousand persons and if it passes, uproar will be caused.

The paper writes that the economic problems, unemployment and especially the new “draft-law” regarding the “citizenship”, which is prepared by the “government”, caused tension yesterday in the “parliament” and further hardening of the stance of the “opposition” parties.

Addressing the session, Cakici said that all the “MPs” who will vote in favour of the above-mentioned “draft-law” will be “traitors of the country”. “This law is our red line”, he said and added that they will take any kind of action against this “law”.

Cakici noted, inter alia, the following: “We will file a complaint about you at international courts. We will say that you carry population here and that you transfer population in a planned manner. Passing this law is a red line for us. This means the end of our relations with you. It means the beginning of uproar and chaos… If necessary a referendum should be held”.

Kibris reports that employees of the bankrupted “Turkish Cypriot Airlines” and building contractors, who face problems regarding tenders announced in Turkey, followed the session of the “assembly” yesterday. The building contractors stated that they will be attending the sessions of the “assembly” from now on and express the injustice made against them.

The paper writes that the “MPs” of the opposition, that is, the Social Democracy Party (TDP), Democratic Party (DP) and Republican Turkish Party (CTP) followed the session standing for five minutes in order to protest against the stance of the “government”.

Meanwhile, Serdar Denktas, chairman of the DP, took the floor and started speaking without the permission of the “speaker of the assembly” Hasan Bozer. When the latter told him that his actions are contrary to the “regulations of the assembly”, Denktas said he decided to act contrary to the “regulations” in order to draw attention to the problems which exist in the “country”.
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[Kikapu]

Here is another version on the subject. I will make few comments on the article below soon, which won't be nice comments at all, to say the least.

More settlers will reportedly be granted the “citizenship” of the regime; Columnist refers to at least 54 thousand new “citizens”


FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE • Mon, May 23, 2011

Under the title “5800 citizenships”, Turkish Cypriot daily Havadis reports that the self-styled government of the breakaway regime is preparing a new “law” for massively giving rights to those waiting to obtain the “citizenship” of the regime and gain the right of becoming “citizens”.

The paper writes that if the “draft-law” is implemented without any amendments, “white card” will be given to those who work “legally” for eight years in the occupied area of Cyprus, to those who work for 14 years with interruption but completed a period of eight years of “legal” continuous work in occupied Cyprus and to those who live “illegally” in occupied Cyprus without taking into consideration whether they have “work permit”.

The “citizenship” of the regime will be granted to the foreigners who were born in occupied Cyprus and completed their 18th year of age and to the members of the so-called separated families.

The paper reports that the holders of “white card” will not have the right to vote and to be elected or to be employed as “civil servants”.

According to the new “law”, from now on “work permits” will be issued for a maximum period of four years and therefore foreigners who obtain this “permit” will not have the right of obtaining the “citizenship” of the regime. After this “law”, the “citizenship’ will be given to no one except for cases of marriage and “very special investors”.

According to the paper, if the “law” is enforced, at the first stage, around ten thousand persons will be given “white cards” and around five thousand persons the “citizenship”. A foreigner should be married to a “TRNC citizen” for more than three years in order to gain the right of becoming a “citizen” of the regime.

The couple should live together within the above-mentioned period and should not be divorced when the “citizenship” is granted to the foreigner.

Moreover, the “citizenship” will be granted to children born in the occupied part of Cyprus and have a foreign mother or father, on the condition that these children lived in occupied Cyprus for 15 years and their parents resided “legally” there.

Meanwhile, commenting on the issue in his daily column in Havadis, Huseyin Ekmekci recalls the statements made by Halil Ibrahim Akca, self-styled Turkish ambassador to occupied Lefkosia, when he visited Havadis.

Akca had stated that 29 thousand persons are registered as foreign workforce in the occupied part of Cyprus, that 13.500 of these people gained the right to become “citizens” of the regime and 5.800 persons have been given their “citizenship” right.

Ekmekci writes that officials from Turkey and the occupied area of Cyprus have agreed on radically solving the above-mentioned problem. He notes, inter alia, the following: “…Those who according to the existing TRNC laws have gained the right to become citizens will be given this right.

This number is ‘maximum 13.500 persons’. Together with their spouses they are 27 thousands (if everyone is married). If to these 27 thousands you add their children, a group of at least 54 thousand persons have gained the right of becoming citizens.

This issue came onto the agenda between the Turkish embassy and the TRNC government and reconciliation was achieved on the issue of ‘cleaning up the past…”

http://famagusta-gazette.com/more-settl ... 11-123.htm