...this is for Lordo mostly; who started this thread.
[07] The occupation army prohibits entrance into occupied Louroudjina village
Under the front page title "Behold the pen", Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (15.12.15) reports that the self-styled foreign ministry of the breakaway regime in the occupied area of the Republic of Cyprus did not give permission to Greek Cypriots to enter the occupied Louroudjina village following an invitation by the owners of the paper to the celebration of the 18th anniversary from the circulation of Avrupa-Afrika newspaper.
The publisher of the paper, Sener Levent writes, inter alia, the following in his column today:
"[?] We had invited our Greek Cypriot friends to the celebration we would hold today. However, the entrance of the Greek Cypriots to the village was prohibited, heaven knows why. They said that special permit should be taken for them. We have prepared a list and submitted it to the ministry of foreign affairs. Anastasiades and Christofias were among our invitees. And the Russian Ambassador as well. As soon as our foreign affairs ministry takes such a list, what does it do? It asks the military command. We do not receive the reply from the command, but from the ministry. What was the reply? 'Permit cannot be given'! [?] We asked information from Mustafa Akinci's presidential palace, asking them if they could undertake any initiative for permit. They did not even reply. Moreover, we also invited Akinci, but yesterday he informed us that he could not come. It is surely not very easy to come to the celebration of this newspaper and especially to Louroudjina.
Those at the foreign ministry reproached. 'How could you think of holding it at Louroudjina', they said. They even said: 'Grit your teeth and bear it, after four months there will be a solution any way'. [?]
We cannot even go to Louroudjina and you are still talking about the solution? Those, who are prisoners and think that they are free as they do not realize that they are prisoners, are more prisoners than the prisoners. [?]
We are an independent newspaper which says things that are not said, writes things that are not written and does things that are not done. Breaking the taboos is our job. This is why we chose Louroudjina. Those from Turkey can enter Louroudjina and the Greek Cypriots cannot. Did you refer to a solution Mustafa? Behold, this is the latest situation in Cyprus!"
(I/Ts.)