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by **Lordo** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:52 pm

what is it about gc fanatics that they find it difficult to comprehend. i have tc land pre 1960 in the north and the south. as a gc friend of mine once said if we have peace we will not be able to afford a postage size land. i have a few trillion postage stamps size land. now anybody interested in buying some. off with you there is none for sale.

what is mine is mine and what you have that belongs to me is also mine. now that is a true statement. only fascists claim that tcs have no land in cyprus so piss off back to greece boys and girl. back to lesbos island where you belong.

by **bill cobbett** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:42 pm

Some excellent news... The Fam Gaz reporting that the Protect Karpas group have been invited by the EU's CY Representation Office to join other CY environmentalists, in a three day trip to Brussels in a week's time, where they will be presenting their fellow CYs with the latest on the destruction up in the Karpas and seeking a CY-wide coalition to fight the developments and will also be lobbying the European Commission...

... http://famagusta-gazette.com/protect-ka ... 922-69.htm

by **kurupetos** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:00 pm

bill cobbett wrote:Some excellent news... The Fam Gaz reporting that the Protect Karpas group have been invited by the EU's CY Representation Office to join other CY environmentalists, in a three day trip to Brussels in a week's time, where they will be presenting their fellow CYs with the latest on the destruction up in the Karpas and seeking a CY-wide coalition to fight the developments and will also be lobbying the European Commission...

... http://famagusta-gazette.com/protect-ka ... 922-69.htm

They are brave. Good luck!

by **bill cobbett** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:02 pm

oooh and some more very exciting news, the Protect Karpas group have also sent a petition to the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament.

Here's a copy of safe receipt by the Petitions Committee...

by **Howcouldyou** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:50 pm

bill cobbett wrote:Some excellent news... The Fam Gaz reporting that the Protect Karpas group have been invited by the EU's CY Representation Office to join other CY environmentalists, in a three day trip to Brussels in a week's time, where they will be presenting their fellow CYs with the latest on the destruction up in the Karpas and seeking a CY-wide coalition to fight the developments and will also be lobbying the European Commission...

... http://famagusta-gazette.com/protect-ka ... 922-69.htm

Given that the EU cannot even agree on how to protect its own enviroment I don`t hold much hope. Only if the Turkish authorities see it as an embarassment will it work. Far better way is for it to be a media issue in big countries.
Sorry but the EU has a poor record on achieving anything in Cyprus other then poverty.

by **danny1234** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:37 pm

bill cobbett wrote:oooh and some more very exciting news, the Protect Karpas group have also sent a petition to the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament.

Here's a copy of safe receipt by the Petitions Committee...

Billyboy, why are you worrying about the bleedin Karpas region, the South is finished, the North will flourish, time to wake up boy!

by **Get Real!** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:52 pm

danny1234 wrote:
bill cobbett wrote:oooh and some more very exciting news, the Protect Karpas group have also sent a petition to the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament.

Here's a copy of safe receipt by the Petitions Committee...

Billyboy, why are you worrying about the bleedin Karpas region, the South is finished, the North will flourish, time to wake up boy!

When the RoC sneezes the "TRNC" catches a cold! :lol:

by **bill cobbett** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 2:41 am

Various bodies in the EU have been alerted to the destruction going on in the Karpas.

Here's the reply received from Commissioner Potočnik, the European Commissioner for the Environment...

..."Commissioner Potočnik has asked me to reply to your letter that we received on 18 March on the potential danger to valuable nature sites in the Karpaz Peninsula in the northern part of Cyprus.

The European Commission is aware of the considerable pressures that potential Natura 2000 areas in the northern part of Cyprus face. Organising an event which thousands of people would attend at a potential Natura 2000 area is another example of such pressures.

You rightly point out to the assistance that the European Commission provided in order to help to manage the protected sites in the northern part of Cyprus. However, since the acquis communautaire is suspended in the northern part of Cyprus, the European Commission does not have any legal instruments to enforce environmental protection in that area.

Notwithstanding, the European Commission will continue to impress on all those responsible in the northern part of Cyprus the need to ensure that the nature sites are protected against deterioration or disturbances. ..."

...and the reply from our old friend the Enlargement Commissioner, Stephan Fule, to a written question raised by an MEP in the European Parliament...

..."The Commission is deeply concerned by the recent developments within the extremely sensitive Karpasia/Karpaz Special Environment Protected Areas (SEPA) and has shared its concerns with the Turkish Cypriot community at a high level since November 2012.

The Commission expects the Turkish Cypriot community to act fully in accordance with the management plans for the SEPAs and to implement the necessary conservation measures it had already prepared for those seven areas..."

by **bill cobbett** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 2:37 am

Howcouldyou wrote:
bill cobbett wrote:Some excellent news... The Fam Gaz reporting that the Protect Karpas group have been invited by the EU's CY Representation Office to join other CY environmentalists, in a three day trip to Brussels in a week's time, where they will be presenting their fellow CYs with the latest on the destruction up in the Karpas and seeking a CY-wide coalition to fight the developments and will also be lobbying the European Commission...

... http://famagusta-gazette.com/protect-ka ... 922-69.htm

Given that the EU cannot even agree on how to protect its own enviroment I don`t hold much hope. Only if the Turkish authorities see it as an embarassment will it work. Far better way is for it to be a media issue in big countries.
Sorry but the EU has a poor record on achieving anything in Cyprus other then poverty.

Well, trying to make any story from CY other than the current financial mess in to the international media is well nigh on impossible.

The story on what's going on in the Karpas is however practically daily news in the Occupied Areas.

Leaving aside the environmental issue for a mo, the story that "friends" are reporting is that the destruction and development plans are a (mainland) Turkish scheme.

The "mayor" up there is an Illegal Settler representing a population that is very much Illegal Settler dominated. This "mayor" has had a lot of support from the Turkish Governor in the Occupied Areas, who is quoted as saying the "mayor" can have anything he wants and remarkably there's a connection all the way back to the Turkish PM Erdogan in that his son visited the "mayor" at the beginning of last month.

Opposing these plans are CY environmentalists and their supporters along with the CY trades unions from the other side of the cease-fire line.

by **bill cobbett** » Thu May 16, 2013 4:11 pm

An update on the situation up in the Karpas.

Reported in the press of the Occupied Areas today...

... which cite a great deal of pressure from Environmentalists across CY which has resulted in...

The Silk Route Music Festival has cancelled plans to hold the event in the Karpas and is reported to be looking for an alternative venue.

What passes as a "tourism authority" has acted to close down construction on some 100 bungalows in the Karpas.

(No news on the road widening...

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