[07] BKP: The 2016-18 "economic protocol" will increase dependency on Ankara
Turkish Cypriot daily Havadis newspaper (17.04.16) reported that Salih Sonustun, foreign relations secretary of the United Cyprus Party (BKP), has said that the "2016-18 economic protocol" includes "enforcements and capitulations which will make both the economic and the political dependency of the Turkish Cypriots on Ankara permanent, intensifying their annihilation process".
In a written statement issued on Saturday, Sonustun said: "The AKP government in Ankara is trying to create an infrastructure in which it will keep the northern part of Cyprus under control, shape its political and economic structure according to its wishes, and interfere when it wishes in the judiciary and the security system".
He went on and stressed that with the "protocol" regarding the water carried from Turkey, all the underground resources, including the rain water, will be transferred to a "pro-AKP monopoly". With the signing of the "economic protocol", he added, everything that the Turkish Cypriots have, such as the electricity and telecommunication "authorities" and the "ports", will be handed over to Ankara.
Blaming the Republican Turkish Party, the National Unity Party and the Democratic Party of equally contributing to this annihilation process, Sonustun underlined that the article of the "2016-18 economic protocol" regarding the granting of new "citizenships" is an enforcement which will on the one hand blow up the negotiating process and on the other deprive the Turkish Cypriots from their political will.
(I/Ts.)
[08] Akinci's party expects him to reject the "agreement" as regards the transfer of water from Turkey
Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris Postasi newspaper (16.04.16) reported that the Social Democracy Party (TDP), the party to which Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci belongs, expects Akinci to "struggle" against the "agreement" regarding the transfer of water from Turkey to the occupied area of the island which had been accepted last week with majority by the breakaway regime's "assembly".
Kibris Postasi had reported last week that the "agreement" should be signed by Akinci. The paper asked TDP's chairman, Cemal Ozyigit whether Akinci will take the "constitutional court's" view on the issue and what stance he will exhibit. Ozyigit replied: "I do not know what stance the president will exhibit, but we will evaluate the way of the constitutional court and we will talk with Mr Akinci". He recalled that the TDP tried to prevent the "agreement" in the "assembly" and added that they will continue their struggle until the end.
Meanwhile, Mehmet Cakici, "deputy" with the TDP, said on the issue: "We have an evident expectation from the president of the republic. In spite of the fact that the controlled freedom law [translator's note: on the issue of drugs] does not include any element contrary to the constitution, he gave his opinion. The water approval law must be rejected. The president of the republic can return it to the assembly".
(I/Ts.)
...for the record.
(reh bill, pou e xathikes; yiasou)
