Hermes wrote:Call to rein in north police:ALL MAINSTREAM Turkish Cypriot opposition parties yesterday backed calls for an enquiry into police violence against demonstrators Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week described as "marginal and collaborators."
Several protesters were injured as police indiscriminately beat them during a demonstration held against Erdogan's visit to mark the Turkish invasion and subsequent division of the island. Erdogan later described the demonstrators as "marginal collaborators who should not be heeded".
Calls for an urgent enquiry had already come from the so-called marginal groups, such as the New Cyprus Party (YKP) and the United Cyprus Party (BKP). However, yesterday the main opposition Republican Turkish Party (CTP), along with the smaller Communal Democracy Party (TDP) and Serdar Denktash's Democrat Party (DP) joined the calls.
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In the wake of years of gerrymandering by Turkey, marginalised political parties with no prospect of power under the present contrived situation combining?
Change is a funny little thing.