by bill cobbett » Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:19 pm
Reprinted from Kibris by the CY PIO...
" ... K"t"OS: we do not want to be nourished through an umbilical cord
"turkish" Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (18.10.13) reports that the "turkish" Cypriot Primary School Teachers’ Trade Union (K"t"OS) has said that the "turkish" Cypriots want to stand on their own feet in their country, having their own sociocultural values in a united Cyprus and that they do not want to be nourished through an “umbilical cord”.
K"t"OS’ chairman, Guven Varoglu issued a written statement yesterday strongly reacting to a reference by the Turkish Minister of Forestry and Energy, Veysel Eroglu, who described the project of transferring water from Turkey to the occupied area of Cyprus through underwater pipelines as “binding” the occupied area of Cyprus to its “motherland” through an umbilical cord.
Varoglu accused Turkey of acting contrary to the Zurich-London Agreements and changing the island’s demographic structure by transferring population to the northern part of Cyprus.
Varoglu said: “As a result of the integration and assimilation policies implemented by Ankara governments and their local collaborators the "trnc" government, the "turkish" Cypriots, who have become minority in their own country, have come to the point of experiencing serious difficulties in their struggle of protecting their identity, keeping alive their social and cultural values and protecting their secular and modern structure.”
Noting that the statements by Veysel Eroglu show that the officials from Turkey continue using the “Motherland-Daughterland rhetoric”, Varoglu said that the Turkish officials should know that the "turkish" Cypriots are giving a struggle for communal existence. “Even if we are betrayed from time to time, this struggle will continue”, he added. ... "