by bill cobbett » Tue Feb 18, 2014 4:56 pm
It hasn't taken the Turkish Negotiator, Yorgancioglu, to break the agreement not to issue public statements on the negotiations with the bombshell demand that the Illegal Settlers will have citizenship of any new Federation.
This the CY PIO summarising an Afrika article...
Yorgancioglu promises “federal citizenship” to Turkish settlers
Under the title “Promise for federal citizenship to people from Turkey”, Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (18.02.14) reports that Ozkan Yorgancioglu, self-styled prime minister of the breakaway regime in the occupied area of the Republic of Cyprus, has promised to Turkish settlers that they will do whatever they can in order for them to take the citizenship of a federal Cyprus, in case of a solution to the Cyprus problem.
The paper writes that the Turkish settlers are living in uncertainty because no one says yet what will happen on the issue of the population in a possible agreement. According to Afrika, the Turkish settlers started visiting “officials” of the breakaway regime in order to overcome their concerns.
A delegation from the association of the Turkish war veterans, who took part in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, visited yesterday Yorgancioglu and asked from him to brief them on this issue. Yorgancioglu said, inter alia, the following:
“We are all included in the ‘Turkish Cypriot people’ definition. Everybody who lives in the country and is citizen, not old or new citizen, and sees his future here is included in this. Our target should be an agreement in which the interests will be protected… It is our duty to protect the rights of the people who live here for 40-45 years, who are born here, not only in their lives here but in the agreement as well… We will do from now on what we did in the Annan Plan. You should be relaxed…”
He went on and said that an agreement will not deprive them from the right of being “citizens of this country” and added: “There is no such thought and intention”.
Yorgancioglu recalled that the Annan Plan was providing that everyone who is born in Cyprus would become citizen of the federal state and argued that nothing less than this will be included in the new negotiating process.