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and the fan club.

"UNE 22, 2000 Here is a desperate appeal by AVRUPA, a newspaper published in the areas of Cyprus under Turkish occupation:
AVRUPA (22.6.00) publishes the following "Call to the Turkish Cypriot people": "The Ankara administration which in 25 years time has turned Northern Cyprus into a military base and occupation area has started an offensive to silence those who are resisting and demanding to live a humane life here. A new and major operation has been launched by Denktash - who enjoys the support of Ankara - to completely silence AVRUPA, which has become the voice and the spirit of our people. The disdainers sent by Denktash are getting ready to take away everything that belongs to AVRUPA. In the past those who waged the struggle that we are waging today were gunned down and killed. People like Fazil Onder, Ayhan Hikmet, Ahmet Gurkan, Kutlu Adali... All of them were annihilated because the wrote the truth in the newspaper columns. Their killers were never found. The Turkish government and Turkey`s Chief of Staff will be responsible for all the threats, oppressions and intimidations directed at or intended to be directed at AVRUPA and its journalists, because it is they who are ruling this land as though it is one of their provinces. Neither the Turkish President, nor the Prime Minister, nor the Chief of Staff can do away with this responsibility. It is unbecoming of a powerful Turkey, which is trying to be a EU member and is after modernization, to silence the patriots of this small island. It is time to say "STOP" to Denktash who has dragged our community to collapse. Come on Patriots and the Turkish Cypriot People! Let us resist together. This oppression and cruelty is not only directed against us, it is against all of us. Let us own our free will which is under occupation".

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