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[Svetlana]

Hi Elko

Are you Ismet on the North Cyprus Information (ex-North Cyprus TRNC MSN) Board?

Lana

[elko]

Hi Elko

Are you Ismet on the North Cyprus Information (ex-North Cyprus TRNC MSN) Board?

Lana

Yes, I always write with my true name. "Elko" is my registered trade name and "Ismet" is my first name. BTW, now I write more often on:
http://groups.msn.com/NorthCyprusLiving/_whatsnew.msnw
and I am the assistant manager there.

Another interesting group is the "Cyprus List" and we often arrange a get together in Nicosia and have a meal together. My membership there goes back to the times when we used to meet at Pyla, the only place possible for mixed meetings at the time.
ismet

[Svetlana]

Hi Ismet

WE are straying off topic (and the Moderator will be on my tail!) but I am a member there too. We also have MM on this Forum but he usually sticks to 'satellite' isues here.

You certainly meet some characters on the Cyprus Forum (Ericseans, k4k etc) all of whom entertain and aggravate in equal measures!

Lana

[stuballstu]

Twinkle wrote

cypezokyli wrote:
and where can turkey turn to ?


May I introduce the 51st state of the USA

And there stupid old me was thinking it was a close call between Canada and the UK for the 51st state

orokliniservices wrote

No i am not one of them, i barely spent 10 lira. I found it disgusting how the locals did everything in their power to rip you off, like i'm that stupid and am gonna fall for your tricks, I DON"T THINK SO!! I did not feel safe, walking downtown Kyrenia at night was a frightening event. I was walking down street with my partner, and still got whistled at and stared at like i was a piece of meat. I couldn't wait to cross back over to our side.. i'll never return again.

Sounds like scaremongering or paranoia. It is getting so expensive there i am just wondering how you could go through the day and night barely spending 10 lira?

[orokliniservices]

i didn't buy anything cause it was all crap that was made in china!!

[Swashbuckler]

You mean as opposed to the high quality chinese products available in the S?

[elko]

You mean as opposed to the high quality Chinese products available in the S?

You are very cruel Swashbuckler. You should not say things like that. Some of the Chinese electrical accessories like electrical sockets available in the south cannot be used in the north because the Cyprus Turkish Electrical Authority will not allow it. They are very substandard and not safe to use. On the other hand the Chinese make some good quality products too. For instance I import KIPOR digital generators which are very silent, efficient and reliable.
ismet

[reportfromcyprus]

Turkey has started negotiations - that's why they're called negotiations, so that there's a process of give and take in the mutual interests of each side.

This is what I understand by negotiations. Of course they have the right to walk away at any time and refuse to do business with the EU, after all, it is primarily an economic union.

Where will that leave Cyprus? In the same mess it is at the moment. Let's hope Turkey compromises in some way.

[elko]

At the moment it is not negotiations at all. EU is trying to dictate everything. I will be quite happy to stay outside and also abandon the Custom's Union Treaty. In any case, the way EU is going and burying itself in bureaucracy, it will not last long and after monetary union it will be even more difficult to sort things out. No thank you, I rather stay out and good luck with your new wave of immigrants with Bulgaria and Romania joining soon.
ismet

[reportfromcyprus]

elko, sorry to bore you with my usual 'let's talk it over' approach, but don't you think that Turkey should compromise on a few things? It's not the 1900's anymore, we should, surely, move on from the enmities of the past?