Reported in the press in the Occupied Areas that tensions are rising following the arrests of a trade unionist in the Teachers Union and of a CTP party member in the wake of the demo at the EMU earlier in the week.
..."Havadis reports that the Turkish Cypriot Secondary School Teachers’ Trade Union (KTOEOS) member Tahir Gokcebel was arrested. A member of the party council of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP) Dervis Aygin was also arrested on the grounds that they used violence against police and prevented them from doing their duty during the incidents which took place the day before yesterday at the Eastern Mediterranean University (“DAU”).
Tension was created yesterday at KTOEOS headquarters in Turkish-held Nicosia between members of the Trade Unions’ Platform and the police because of the warrant of arrest against Gokcebel and Aygin.
The trade unionists prevented police from entering the building
KTOEOS described the developments as “steps of fascism” and “policy of intimidation”...
From and more at... http://www.cyprusnewsreport.com/?q=node/4281
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