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[Tim Drayton]

The queue entering a bank as they opened at 12 noon today as captured in a photograph published in the Turkish Cypriot press:

http://www.yeniduzen.com/Haberler/guney ... cildi/2020

These people could be going into the WC for all we know.

You do not trust the Turkish Cypriot press to tell the truth, then? Again, this is your prerogative, and I respect that.

[Jerry]

The orderly queues were first item on BBC TV news at 1.00pm, no pushing or shoving. A bank employee handed out information sheets about new regulations to people in the line, 5 or 6 went in at a time, only one guard/policeman at the door. Certainly no sign of a run on the bank, impossible in fact if you can't withraw more than 300 euros each day.

[Tim Drayton]

The orderly queues were first item on BBC TV news at 1.00pm, no pushing or shoving. A bank employee handed out information sheets about new regulations to people in the line, 5 or 6 went in at a time, only one guard/policeman at the door. Certainly no sign of a run on the bank, impossible in fact if you can't withraw more than 300 euros each day.

Happy to hear that. My respect for the BBC has taken a bit of dent with some of the over-the-top reports they have broadcast.

[Tim Drayton]

From an American financial news bulletin:

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/bank ... ml/?ref=YF

“We expected much more people,” said Argyros Eraclides, manager of a Bank of Cyprus branch in Nicosia, told the publication. “Fortunately there are only some people who needed cash for the day, but customers reacted fantastically. We expected some people to be more aggravated.”

[supporttheunderdog]

Only queue I saw was about a dozen outside the Laiki at Linopetra. all very orderly.

Some of the reports mentioned that there were more Journo's outside lokking for a story than there were queueing customers....

[Cap]

Says it all really..

[Get Real!]

Says it all really..

Because people want blood and gore these days… I say sacrifice a goat outside an ATM and push its testicles in the slot!

[Kikapu]

Of course as you have done to us in the past when we gave you first hand accounts we dont believe a word of what you say, most banks experienced a tension and verbal abuse how could you not when you lose 40%-60% of your money...reminds me of when the GCs used to try and ridicule us about the banks collapsing in the TRNC...karma is a bitch.

You don't know what you are talking about. You are just upset because people are not rioting in the RoC in front of the banks. The reason why that is not happening, is because majority of Cypriots, Turkish or Greek do not have anywhere 100,000 Euros in their bank accounts just sitting there. If they had money, they would most probably either buy a property or a piece of land or put it into their small businesses. The majority who took it in the shorts with the levy were the foreigners, not that that makes it ok, because it doesn't.

By the way, how much GC money fled to the banks in the north today as it was expected in the north?

[repulsewarrior]

Says it all really..

...feeds, the it can't happen to me syndrome.

[Viewpoint]

Who was trying to burn the Turkish flag while waiting in the queue?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21950913

Theres a man here who threatens to close the banking system again he says he has the power.