by bill cobbett » Sun Jul 01, 2012 2:29 am
The Trades Unionists CYs in the Occupied Areas have come out in condemnation of the Brussels stunt organised and paid for by the Illegal Regime.
This is how their reaction is reported...
Turkish Cypriot organizations evaluated the protest in Brussels: “Serving Turkey’s separatist policies is unbecoming to us”
Under the title “Serving Republic of Turkey’s separatist policies is unbecoming to us”, Kibris Postasi news website (28.06.12) reported that ten Turkish Cypriot trade unions, KTOS, KTOEOS, BES, KTAMS, TIP-IS, BASIN-SEN, CAG-SEN, DAU-BIRSEN, KOOP-SEN and GUC-SEN issued a joint statement on Thursday, evaluating the protest organized by the Economic Organizations’ Platform in Brussels the day before yesterday.
According to the statement, in response to “the Greek Cypriot’s not wanting to share the Republic of Cyprus with the Turkish Cypriots since 1963”, Turkey exerts intensive efforts to make the division of the island permanent by using its collaborators in the occupied northern part of Cyprus. The statement adds, inter alia, the following:
“…Because of the two-faced policy that is followed, the Turkish Cypriots are dragged towards annihilation. This mentality, which declares ‘traitors of the country’ the Turkish Cypriots who exert efforts for the solution and the unification of our island, which makes use of the solution processes as an opportunity serving division and which made the Greek Cypriots member of the EU, is now trying to deceive the world with the lie of ‘embargo and isolation’…”
Accusing Turkish Cypriot leader Eroglu of trying to strengthen the division of Cyprus at the negotiating table upon instructions from the Foreign Ministry of Turkey, the statement says that UBP self-styled government serves Ankara’s plans for assimilating and integrating the occupied part of Cyprus.
The organizations describe as an “egregious contradiction” the fact that on the one hand the regime prohibited the passports of the Republic of Cyprus showing as pretext the Cypriot EU term presidency, and on the other representatives of civilian organizations carrying passports of the Republic of Cyprus flew to Brussels on two airplanes paid by the regime in order to protest against the “embargoes and the isolations”.
“You are the ones who implement the embargo and the isolation, but you are also the ones who pay the money for an event to protest against them”, note the organizations referring to officials from Turkey and the breakaway regime. “This is a complete two-faced policy”, they add.
The organizations conclude their statement by noting the following: “We do not need someone to hire a plane for us in order to go to Brussels and defend the communal rights of the Turkish Cypriots. It should be known that there are enough puppet administrators in the northern part of our island. Serving the Republic of Turkey’s separatist false policies is unbecoming to us”.
Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot daily Ortam newspaper (29.06.12) reports that representatives of KTOS, KTOEOS, BES, KTAMS, TIP-IS, BASIN-SEN, CAG-SEN, DAU-BIRSEN, KOOP-SEN and GUC-SEN trade unions held a protest outside the “assembly” of the breakaway regime yesterday morning against the activity organized in Brussels. During the protest they opened banners saying “The Turkish Cypriots do not accept being subordinate administration to Turkey”, “EU, Act now against the Turkish Cypriot extinction”, “Solution now: Independent, United, Federal Cyprus” and “Turkey, Respect the Will of the Turkish Cypriots”.
In statements to the press after the protest, Tahir Cokcebel, chairman of KTOEOS, said that the activity in Brussels was organized with passports of the Republic of Cyprus, with money of the “state” and “airplanes of the regime”. He expressed the view that the participants in that activity do not represent the Turkish Cypriots.