bill cobbett wrote:One angle in the news in the press of the Occupied Areas on the clashes at the weekend's protest up in the Karpas is of a struggle between CYs and the Illegal Settlers who have been moved in to the area over the years.
The mainland Turkish Hurriyet gives this analysis...
“...While the police interfered in the tension between the demonstrators and the people, the situation was further heated up when few local newspapers gave the news as ‘tension between people from Turkey and Cypriots’, because the majority of the people living in the area are people that came to the island from Turkey after 1974. After environmentalist activists of the New Cyprus Party (YKP) had opened a placard saying ‘governor, take your hands off our peninsula’, referring to the Embassy of Turkey, the peasants of Karpasia rose up and closed the road. While a group of newspapers described the incident as tension between people from Turkey and Cypriots..."
When it says "peasants of Karpasia" it actually means settlers. And then we have VP telling us they have normal relations with them. As if we are stupid, as if our Kibrisli friends tell us lies.!
Bill did you notice the "police hahaha-police hahaha" called those demonstrators "Greeks"? Why do you think?
But then again what would you expect from a regime where even to organize the simplest thing you need permission? Permission to clean GC commentaries, permission to make liturgy in your churches, permission for this permission for that..