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[metecyp]

I read an article in Afrika newspaper today. It might be translated in that famous Cyprus-Media site soon but I wanted to mention it anyway.

According to the article, one TC wanted (living in the north, I guess) to publish ads about his business in GC newspapers. He's a carpenter and he wanted to publish ads about his carpenting business. He tried Philerefteros and Politis and unfortunately, none of them accepted to publish his ads.

I want to ask GC members of the forum: What's the reason for this? Do you agree with it? Do you think this really helps for a solution? Do you think increases the trust between TCs and GCs? Isn't there a more sensitive way to punish occupation without punishing the ordinary people?

[Piratis]

Ordinary people should not be punished, but when we talk about ordinary people this includes both GCs and TCs.
Publishing his ads would be either a problem(1) or a very big problem(2).

1) The TC carpenter doesn't pay any taxes to the state. He will also not charge the 15% VAT. These are things that GC carpenters have to do. Therefore the TC carpenter would be able to sell things much cheaper, which would be an unfair competition to GC carpenters. If a GC carpenter doesn't pay his taxes, and he doesn't charge the VAT he will end up in jail.

2)It would be an even bigger problem if the business of this person is based or profiting in some way from property that does not belong to him.

Of course this doesn't mean that a TC that owns 100% of his business should have no way to sell/advertise his goods.
Maybe the government should arrange it in such way that TC businesses can register, pay their taxes, charge VAT etc so that they can do business in the whole Cyprus and abroad legally and without any problem.

Of course such thing should be allowed by the occupation forces. I believe the government has several measures for some TCs such as farmers, but the occupation regime doesn't allow these measures to function properly.

[Georgia]

I think that the newspaper should have allowed the advertisement to be printed. people can make up their own minds on whether it should have been put into their newspaper, by either ignoring it or responding to it.

in the event that it was ignored, the man would then probably not in future attempt to have it put in the paper. but, if demand for his business is requested, then that answers your questions as to whether or not it should have been there in the first place. let the people decide.

[MicAtCyp]

The Colony hotel in Kyrenia has placed a lot of ads in the past with the following wording:
5 star luxury hotel, Built on 100% TC land, owned 100% by a Turkish Cypriot.
And its ads were all published with no problem at all.....

[brother]

It all seems very immature, and also shows what is lacking in the cypriot arena, if this guy is a tc and not a settler then he should have been allowed not hindered, but i do say if he wants to do business in the ROC then he should be allowed to register and pay his v.a.t.