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Cyprus (Northern Cyprus) [the turkish bit] Presidential Election Day.
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65 cents of a €uro's worth of electronic mail to ye.
The _*unrecognised*_ Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has a presidential election today.
The self-proclaimed republic was declared in 1983 in the the northern region of the island which the Turkish Army occupied back in 1974.
Turkey is the world's only country to have recognized it. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (bit bigger than the arabic league but the mint tea isn't as food) granted it observer member status under the name of "Turkish Cypriot State". Cyprus is a member state of the EU.
check the 65 cent Irish stamp (the one with the map)
The Turkish Cyprus barrier (UN Buffer Zone on Cyprus)is a 300 km (187 mile) separation barrier along the 1974 Green Line (or ceasefire line) between the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and The Republic of Cyprus. Constructed by Turkey, it served to separate the northern 37% (mostly inhabited by ethnic Turkish Cypriots) of Cyprus, occupied by Turkish troops since 1974, from the southern part (mostly inhabited by ethnic Greek Cypriots), and splits the capital Nicosia in two.
The barrier itself consists of concrete walls, barbed wire fencing, watch-towers, anti-tank ditches, and minefields. Parts of it are patrolled by United Nations peacekeeping forces.
It has a big no-mans land in the middle, and you can still see toys in the middle that we were dropped by the 200,000 refugees who crossed it.
It's a good example of a border.
In April 2003 the Turkish Cypriot government significantly eased travel restrictions across the barrier, which had for 29 years prohibited crossings, whilst both sides called each other names, and shot at the dogs in no-mans land.
You can see the dead dog's carcases by the toys.
Since Cyprus' joined the European Union under Bertie Ahern's presidency, the Cypriots have rejected re-unification, and property investment and speculation has jumped island wide.
Travel restrictions have been abolished for all EU citizens.
Which means If you go on holidays to Cyprus you can visit the north as well as now, and the only part of the country you can't visit are -
two small areas on the southern coast of the island, around Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
Under the independence agreement, the UK retains the title of two small areas on the southern coast of the island, around Akrotiri and Dhekelia, known collectively as "the UK sovereign base areas". They are used to host military bases and parties with sniffy type drugs and uniforms.
If you wan't to visit them, write a letter of application to
the Irish Minister for Justice and republics, Michael Mc Dowell,
Leinster House
Dublin 1.
You might curry favour with your application if you stick a fiver and a discount flyer for a kebab in the envelope and of course use a 65cent Irish EU stamp. (clearly mark the flyer "for Mary")
Mehmet Ali Talat, presently Prime Minister and Republican Turkish Party leader, is the new president. His party has been in office for a month the republic's Cabinet, last month. Talat wants to see the island reunited on UN peacemaking blueprints, and calls on the Turkish Republic (Turkey) [with the appaling human rights record] (PD approved construction companies get their cheap workers from there) to join the European Union.
That will be really really interesting, as the EU rather stickily doesn't recognise nations without states, and hasn't recognised the Turkish Republic to be a legitimate state at all, at all, and would have to at least change some of its own internal rules, like "the constitution". Write a letter to the Progressive Democrat Euro-VIP mr Pat Cox and ask him to repeat his view on such things in light of today's democratic participative elections in the Basque Autonomous Region and the Islamic Republic of Northern Turkey.
Included a kebab voucher the envelope and better up the "fiver" to at least "twenty / a score" AND don't forget that 65cent Eu stamp. (depending on which slang socio-economic-linguistic group you hail from).
Mr President (of a non legitimate state) Mehmet Ali Talat won 55.6% of the vote, well ahead of his nearest rival, Dervis Eroglu, who won just 22.7%
Unfortuanately I can't tell you how many northern turkish didn't vote in their illegitimate state.
Coz the figures aren't published nor are they likely to be.
But I can tell you there were 577 ballot boxes.
I can also tell you Cyprus is "guitar shaped" and in a different place to that where it was located by the Irish Government (FF& PD coalition) when Bertie Ahern was EU president.
read this article:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3690489.stm
Relax, they're really €uropean & they know what they're doing.
Whilst the northern cypriots look forward to intense speculation on their beach side homes, a certian livening up their discos and bar-life, which European statehood will give them, certain of that speculation will surely centre around the disputed properties left behind by greek cypriot refugees during the 1974 invasion.
which ousted more than 200,000 Greek-Cypriots from their homes. The precedent case of Loizidou vs Turkey was judged in favor of Loizidou, a Greek Cypriot, and ruled that Turkey should pay her compensation. More specifically, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Loizidou is entitled to a sizeable compensation for loss of use of her property, while she retains all rights of ownership of it. It is understood by both sides that no solution to the Cyprus problem can be achieved without a significant tranfer of property back to pre-invasion owners, Greek-Cypriots or Turkish-Cypriots, an issue that further complicates any potential solution.
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*this article contains meaty substance from many media sources, some free like wiki and others relying on good will and solid fertilizer and with an irritating habit of describing countries like household objects.
**Don't reheat after consumption even though it might look the same. add your own sauce.
***you could try picking up the toys and finding the generation of little girls now grown women that dropped them there and saying - sorry, here's some health care, a decent job, a pension, and some justice and equality economic and geo-political.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5a girl "of about 12 years" who wore a black mask was shot during the british armed intervention in Cyprus, and I held the soldier who shot her through the head killing her instantly many years later as he cried in a south London pub, and he said sorry for Cyprus and sorry for Northern Ireland and sorry for it all.
And he asked me to do what I could do.
And I said I would.
RTS!
do what you can.
& it goes in 2 places at least on the newswire.
Here becuase it deals with Cyprus and also on the Cherie file coz it deals with Cherie.
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Cherie Blair the wife of the British PM is representing a british couple who illegally built a villa with swimming pool on the north of the island- "It could be the first time that the High Court has tested a 2001 regulation from the European Council that judgments in one EU member country can be enforced in another". And I pointed out such issues in the article above.
http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=27&si=1529764&issue_id=13438
the BBC's radio 4 have "unveiled" evidence that the British were playing "murky" power games in Cyprus to "provoke" a war at least 10 years before the 1974 partition. Of course this evidence is not too hard to find. Its called "timed release". It works like this, most people in 2006 don't give a poo what happened in 1964. & that's one of the secrets of british success. They are so sly and murky that they know they get away with it just by hiding it long enough.... or do they?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4632080.stm
With British and French help, and a US navy within helicopter shuttle distance but still off the visible horizon - EU citizens (and a few hangers-on) are going to Cyprus from Lebanon.
The image attached shows you the acession celebratory stamp issued by the regime of Bertie Ahern and Co. to welcome all those extra states into our Union. States like Cyprus. But the Irish postage people didn't put Cyprus in, they just moved Crete into the position Cyprus normally is.
Lebanon hasn't moved since Irish peace keepers were last deployed there. Like Cyprus & Ireland, the land of the Cedar tree is pretty much where it used to be. But Irish people have more fun stuff to take their minds off it.
The EU people in their orderly and patient queue out of Lebanon are not all going to find jobs, homes or even a decent night out in Cyprus. That wasn't planned for. But they will feel they are walking in historic footsteps as Lakuna saw the last internationally reputable and independent and tippy toppy qualified weapons inspectors pf the International IAEI atomic division touched down at 16 h10 local time : 14 h 10 GMT on route to Vienna from Iraq on the 8th of December 2002. They didn't say Iraq or anyone else in teh Middle East had or were building nuclear weapons. No-one wanted to hear that which is why they were all asked to write letters of resignation, and we never heard from them again.
Or they could be lefties and merely think the CIA has been accused of rendition through that very airport - & we never heard from them again either.
Nothing to do with Cyprus though.
Nor Lebanon.
This comment is just meant to use contemporary Irish Design & Foreign Policy Culture to drive home a point. All the Irish were not "got out" of Lebanon. Will they skip the queue too?
Bertie's 25 state EU celebratory stamp. Swapped Crete for Cyprus & left out the Balkans & Lebanon.
It's described as "Europe's last wall". As I wrote above it really was a very good example of a border - it had a no man's land, dead dogs in the middle shot by the guards either side - barbed wire - dropped toys.
But it is not Europe's last wall. I told you about Europe's latest wall here
http://indymedia.ie/article/77839
& that wall, built to keep drug-addicts in - & migrants out - is still standing in Padova Italy. Maybe someday Cherie Blair will represent British retired couples who wish to buy property in an Italian slum.