#Attacks by Greek Cypriots on Turkish Cypriots

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Greek Cypriot series “Famagusta” is said to be unrealistic

Greek Cypriot series “Famagusta” is said to be unrealistic Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus regarding the series “Famagusta” The trailer for the Greek Cypriot series “Famagusta”, which was announced to be released on a digital platform on 20 September 2024, contains blood-curdling scenes that portray the events that took place on the Island…

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What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting police men really protesting?

What are the students at Stanford University vandalizing the president’s office really demonstrating against?

What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about?

Occupations?

They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stations 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting against the Chinese takeover of a once-independent Tibet or the threatened absorption of an autonomous Taiwan.

Refugees?

None of these mobs are agitating on behalf of the nearly 1 million Jews ethnically cleansed since 1947 from the major capitals of the Middle East. Some 200,000 Cypriots displaced by Turks earn not a murmur. Nor does the ethnic cleansing of 99% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Armenian population just last year.

Civilian casualties?

The global protestors are not furious over the 1 million Uighurs brutalized by the communist Chinese government. Neither are they concerned about the Turkish government’s indiscriminate war against the Kurds or its serial threats to attack Armenians and Greeks.

The new woke jihadi movement is instead focused only on Israel and “Palestine.” It is oblivious to the modern gruesome Muslim-on-Muslim exterminations of Bashar el-Assad and Saddam Hussein, the Black September massacres of Palestinians by Jordanian forces, and the 1982 erasure of thousands in Hama, Syria.

So woke jihadism is not an ecumenical concern for the oppressed, the occupied, the collateral damage of war, or the fate of refugees. Instead, it is a romanticized and repackaged anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic jihadism that supports the murder of civilians, mass rape, torture, and hostage-taking.

But what makes it now so insidious is its new tripartite constituency?

First, the old romantic pro-Palestine cause was rebooted in the West by millions of Arab and Muslim immigrants who have flocked to Europe and the U.S. in the last half-century.

Billions of dollars in oil sheikdom “grant” monies swarmed Western universities to found “Middle Eastern Studies” departments. These are not so much centers for historical or linguistic scholarship as political megaphones focused on “Zionism” and “the Jews.”

Moreover, there may be well over a half-million affluent Middle Eastern students in Western universities. Given that they pay full tuition, imbibe ideology from endowed Middle Eastern studies faculty, and are growing in number, they logically feel that they can do anything with impunity on Western streets and campuses.

Second, the Diversity/Equity/Inclusion movement empowers the new woke jihadis. Claiming to be non-white victims of white Jewish colonialism, they pose as natural kindred victims to blacks, Latinos, and any Westerner now claiming oppressed status.

Black radicalism, from Al Sharpton to Louis Farrakhan to Black Lives Matter, has had a long, documented history of anti-Semitism. It is no wonder that its elite eagerly embraced the anti-Israeli Palestine movement as fellow travelers.

The third leg of woke jihadism is mostly affluent white leftist students at Western universities.

Sensing that their faculties are anti-Israel, their administrations are anti-Israel (although more covertly) and the most politically active among the student body are anti-Israel, European and American students find authenticity in virtue-signaling their solidarity with Hamas, Hezbollah, and radical Islamists in general.

Given the recent abandonment of standardized tests for admission to universities, the watering-down of curricula, and rampant grade inflation, thousands of students at elite campuses feel that they have successfully redefined their universities to suit their own politics, constituencies and demographics.

Insecure about their preparation for college and mostly ignorant of the politics of the Middle East, usefully idiotic students find resonance by screaming anti-Semitic chants and wearing keffiyehs.

Nurtured in grade school on the Marxist binary of bad, oppressive whites versus good, oppressed nonwhites, they can cheaply shed their boutique guilt by joining the mobs.

The result is a bizarre new anti-Semitism and overt support for the gruesome terrorists of Hamas by those who usually preach to the middle class about their own exalted morality.

Still, woke jihadism would never have found resonance had Western leaders—vote-conscious heads of state, timid university presidents, and radicalized big-city mayors and police chiefs—not ignored blatant violations of laws against illegal immigration, vandalism, assault, illegal occupation, and rioting.

Finally, woke jihadism is fueling a radical Western turn to the right, partly due to open borders and the huge influx into the West from non-Western illiberal regimes.

Partly the reaction is due to the ingratitude shown their hosts by indulged Middle-Eastern guest students and green card holders.

Partly, the public is sick of the sense of entitlement shown by pampered, sanctimonious protestors.

And partly the revulsion arises against left-wing governments and universities that will not enforce basic criminal and immigration statutes in fear of offending this strange new blend of wokism and jihadism.

Yet the more violent campuses and streets become, the more clueless the mobs seem about the cascading public antipathy to what they do and what they represent.

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“Israel is not just a threat to Gaza but to all of humanity,” Erdoğan said, warning that, “No state is safe as long as Israel does not follow international law and does not feel bound by international law.”

– was Turkey following international law when they invaded Cyprus and murdered civilians taking half the country? Still, over 1000 Greek Cypriots are missing presumed murdered and the Turks are still in Cyprus. Maybe they followed international law when they murdered over a million Armenians by genocide?

Erdoğan accused Netanyahu of overseeing barbaric acts against innocent civilians, stating, "No ideology sees the burning to death of innocent civilians in their tents as legitimate. The world is watching the barbarism of this vampire called Netanyahu live." 

– and this from a man who has launched attacks on people he calls militants with the intention of killing them. Leaving thousands dead in his wake. But as with all dictators, it's do as I say, not as do.

– he also forgot to mention that the people burning in tents died from explosives embedded amongst them by Hamas. In fact, there was a jeep loaded with explosives adjacent to the tents. That’s what was targeted, and that is what caused much of the damage. All by design by Hamas.

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Events 7.15 (after 1900)

1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. 1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. 1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna. 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps. 1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom. 1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight. 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. 1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan. 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". 1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. 1983 – Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan. 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. 1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. 2002 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. 2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. 2009 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module. 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. 2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. 2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. 2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.

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After Hezbollah Threat, Turkey Attacks Cyprus For Acting As Israel's…: Another Country In War Grip?

Published on Jun 27, 2024 06:51 PM IST Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that southern Cyprus is acting as a military base to support Israel’s operations in Gaza. Speaking with Turkish news channel Haberturk on June 24, Fidan labelled Cyprus as a ‘logistics hub’ and said, “We constantly see in intelligence that the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus is a base for certain…

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dispatch on the unrest in belfast

in the late 1950s a group of British Army soldiers from Northern Ireland became notorious for butchering civilians in Cyprus. they were defending the British occupation from the EOKA, led by (no, really) General Grivas, who wanted reunification with Greece. despite Grivas attempts to prevent it the war quickly became a sectarian conflict between Christian Greek Cypriots and Muslim Turkish Cypriots. it was an extremely bloody conflict fought with civilian lives. for the first time in war the pipe bomb replaced the heavy artillery.

when the British surrendered in 1960 those soldiers returned home and, in order to combat the Catholic civil rights movement, became involved in civilian loyalist organisations like the Loyal Orange Lodge until in 1966 when they formed the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). their innovation was to apply the experience in Cyprus to Northern Ireland to defend a partition which was not, at this stage, actually under attack. that year they carried out a string of random killings on the Catholic Falls Road. the civil rights movement developed into an armed struggle for national liberation, the British Army was deployed to combat it, and the UVF were transformed into anonymous soldiers for apartheid, armed by the South African regime, among others, and receiving clandestine support from the British.

pictured: Gusty Spence, first prince of loyalist terror, flanked by his retainers

when Gusty Spence, the leader of the UVF, was caught and imprisoned, he gradually lost control of the organisation. by the end of the 70s it had turned from a politically motivated death squad into an organized crime syndicate and was competing with several other paramilitary rackets, especially the UDA who still control the drug trade in Protestant areas. when Gusty Spence got out of prison he and several other former UVF brigadeers would join the Progressive Unionist Party, which combined loyalism with socialism. they were instrumental in negotiating the ceasefire known as the Good Friday Agreement in the 90s.

the sectarian killings died down but never disappeared. the far-right DUP, led by arch-reactionary Ian Paisley and maintaining secretive associations with both the Loyal Orange Lodge and the UVF (alongside Paisley’s several failed attempts to create his own paramilitary organization known as Third Force), became the dominant unionist party and the dominant party in Stormount, while Sinn Feinn, the political wing of the Provisional IRA, had become the leading republican party throughout the 1980s. apart from a few weak gestures they both agreed on a bunch of austerity cuts and fought tooth and nail against abortion and so on, reiterating the “carnival of reaction north and south” in microcosm.

throughout the 2000s a lot changed. the sectarian Royal Ulster Constabulary was disbanded and replaced with the dysfunctional Police Service Northern Ireland. the loyalist paramilitaries generally decomissioned as requested. it seemed like things were changing. by 2011 the final report of the Independent Monitoring Comission was cautiously optimisitc, writing that “In our first year [2004], each week there were on average four victims of paramilitary violence, some in sectarian incidents. In the last six-monthly period on which we reported the number was about a third of that and none were sectarian” (IMC, pg. 14). but already in 2003 Peter R. Neumann, a researcher on terrorism and partisan conflict, predicted that “the current peace process may not be the ending of the conflict but the suppression of it into the politics of threat and coercion” (Neumann, Britain’s Long War, pg. 1). fifty years after Marcuse was worried about ‘repressive desublimation’ in America, we were finally enjoying the good old ‘disciplinary society’ in Northern Ireland.

the loyalist paramilitaries went through a profound involution, becoming ethnoreligious dictatorships with exclusive police authority over the communities they claim to represent, battling among each other for control over housing estates. they possessed exclusive control over the black market, forced all businesses to pay them protection, and controlled most commercial services (taxi cabs, window cleaners, and so on). they exiled troublemakers, wounded lawbreakers, and murdered their opponents. your neighbours are taken away in the middle of the night and no one asks what happened. you wake up to breaking glass and gunshots, but no screams. then the paramilitaries appropriate the house of their victim and lease it out themselves. the IMC make an uncharacteristically wry remark that this is just “one amongst many ways in which paramilitaries continued to do what they had always done, namely doing violence to their own communities.” (IMC, pg. 14)

The Comission writes that “when we started we observed a scene from which terrorism against the organs of the state had largely disappeared,” yet “as we close we see classic signs of insurgent terrorism” (IMC, pg. 15). the very next year, in December 2012, the UVF and UDA were able to mobilize a huge crowd of Protestants in a campaign of civil disobedience over the removal of the Union Jack from City Hall. this was the first time since the partition that loyalism had taken on the appearance of a genuinely popular movement, looking more like Catholic civil rights marchers of the 60s than Black & Tans. the transformation of loyalism into a form of militant political activism with its own demo circuit was one of a few significant changes of the last decade (we won’t have time for the others in this post). throughout the 2010s they carried out agitprop, pamphleteering, posting up placards and organizing protests against the traitors, touts and frauds at Stormount, even training their own professional activists like Jamie Bryson, all soliciting Protestants to help them protect their cultural identity, heritage and the usual hogwash.

the sedition intensified when, on the 11th of July, 2018, in order to protest ... something, all over Co. Down and Belfast masked and armed volunteers hijacked busses and cars and burned them out, blockaded the roads with burning tires, and hid pipe bombs in the wreckage (BBC). but there was no pretension that this was an act of popular will. it all happened before 5am, and the UVF immediately contacted the police and the press to claim responsibility.

now on the seventh day of violent unrest in Belfast we find this tendency reaching its fullest expression. the events are widely reported on as ‘riots’, but the attacks are identical to the UVF sedition in 2018 and, anyway, require a level of organization which only a paramilitary possess. the difference is that in this instance, like in the Flag protests of 2012-2013, the paramilitaries were able to mobilize ordinary Protestants. but how mobilized are they?

“When the hostage espouses the cause of the terrorist ... then another justice is active than the justice of the law, other scales than the scales of justice.” (Baudrillard, Cool Memories V 2000-2004)

whenever an ordinary person is beaten, shot, exiled or killed by the UVF, our neighbours do not, as we do, hide under their beds and pray. instead, very often, they celebrate. they regard acts of terror as occasions for saturnalia; they come out into the street and cheer, they open buckfast or bacardi, they call their friends to let them know, and in their voices one hears earnest excitement. after the involution of terror we can no longer really blame this on the red mist of bigotry. it makes no difference to armoured Protestants whether the victim is enemy or friend. the order of the spectacle wins out over the mode of terror.

if one looks closely at the events in belfast, common people are present but they are spectators, not participants. elderly women and babies in prams along with their families line up along the sidewalk to watch and cheer while the professionals blow things up. if this is a riot, it’s a strange kind of riot. in some sense The Belfast Riots Did Not Take Place. the pipe bomb returns to Belfast as a simulation of the pipe bomb of the Troubles, already a simulation of the pipe bomb of the Cyprus Emergency, a retaliation to an attack that hasn’t happened yet. but pay close attention to the redirection that has taken place; the bomb is thrown, not into the window of a Republican bar, like the petrol bomb that killed Matilda Gould, but into a line of riot police, like the pipe bomb at the Haymarket riot.

so, what’s next?

some commentary has been made about the fact that the military has been deployed to settle the unrest. this seems like something new, perhaps the first time since the Good Friday Agreement. but, in fact, the military were already deployed in Northern Ireland from the beginning of COVID-19 to support the health services and supply logistics (BBC). it’s significant that they were not called in for the 2012-2013 Flag protests or the ‘Day of Disorder’ in 2018. the state of exception brought about by the pandemic has possibly adjusted the scales. furthermore, the military, previously arming and collaborating with the UVF, are now being deployed specifically to prevent them.

the IMC reported that very few of the killings, by 2011, were sectarian. the Flag protests were sectarian only indirectly, affirming the Protestant ‘siege mentality’, but the enemy was Stormont and not the specter of armed republican revolution. the 2018 disorder had no sectarian content at all. conversely, the incident which incited this week’s Belfast Riots was much more explicitly sectarian. it’s a lot of horseshit: they (prominently, the DUP) wanted Michelle O’Neill, Deputy First Minister and member of Sinn Feinn, arrested for violating COVID restrictions to go to a funeral. the riots began the day the PPS decided not to prosecute. the contention is that COVID restrictions are being unequally enforced between Protestants and Catholics. a paranoid inversion of the real inequality was typically a justifciation for sectarian violence during the Troubles. in one of the most violent moments of the riot the Lanark Way peace wall, separating the Falls and the Shankill, was set on fire and breached, Protestant rioters storming the Catholic street and attacking its residents (the Guardian).

is this the last gasp of an old order of sectarian violence, quickly being replaced by a new kind of reactionary populism? or are these the early ripples of a new, increasingly violent sectarian resurgence? will the tensions between the UVF and the British Army continue to escalate, or will the civil war transform into an ethnic conflict, like in Cyprus? we cannot anticipate the outcome. but the last 6 days seem like significant ones to me. we should remain sensitive to the changes that are coming.

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The Very Best Places to Move to in Cyprus as a Deportee

When the mercury drops at home it can be appealing to think of exactly how unwinding a life abroad in the sunshine could be. Cyprus is just one of those places that shows up time after time as a favorite place for Britons when taking into consideration deportee life and happily puts on the title of having the hottest climate in the European Union.

Throughout history, this pleasant island has actually been 'calculated', with every king as well as leader wanting to stake an insurance claim to the seas and also lands in the Levant region of the Eastern Mediterranean. So if you're thinking about relocating to Cyprus, you're in great firm. From hunter-gatherer cultures 12,000 years ago to Alexander the Great, Richard the Lionheart as well as the British Realm, all have desired an item of this beautiful island.

An Abundant Culture

The island of Cyprus gauges simply 9,000 square kilometres but takes care of to cram in endless beaches, valleys, vineyards and also stunning villages, not to mention the Troodos Mountains (Mount Olympus is the greatest amongst the optimals) rising up to 1,952 metres. There are biking and hiking trails, a glass of wine courses to follow and also you can live your life outdoors year-round.

Culturally abundant, those relocating to Cyprus will additionally uncover an island with its roots securely embeded in ancient society, one that focuses on food, offering and family site visitors the warmest of invites. If you are transferring to Cyprus with a work in mind, the economy is very much based on the solutions sector, with tourist, as well as delivery crucial fields, along with a recent venture into energy thanks to oil deposits discovered offshore.

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Life in The Funding

Naturally, one point to bear in mind when transferring to Cyprus is that this is an island split in two. The south is Greek Cypriot, while the north is Turkish Cypriot, attacked by Turkey in 1975 seemingly to secure its Turkish population complying with a coup d'etat on the island.

In the funding, Nicosia-- home to 240,000 of the 1.2million-strong populace-- signifies this island's split condition. Head to a high look-out factor and you'll see the Eco-friendly Line separating north from south as well as safeguarded by soldiers. It has the sorry title of the world's last divided funding.

Despite its location-- or probably due to it-- Nicosia is the financial and working hub of the island and a main gathering point for every person as well as every little thing. It has been passed from realm to realm for many years and also makes a wonderful place to live.

Gothic cathedrals grow from Islamic buildings, themselves restored over the top of Venetian, English, French and also Genoese previous glories. Buildings like the St Sophia Sanctuary, currently called the Selimiye Mosque, are a good example.

A walk around the city will certainly disclose the medieval Venetian wall surfaces, 18th-century aqueducts and also the Famagusta Gateway, built in 1567 by the Republic of Venice. Nicosia might be a walled medieval town, but there is lots of life as well as modernity in this city, such as the Zaha Hadid-designed park. You do not have the coastline on your front door, but it's only a 50km repel on the weekend.

When it comes to choosing somewhere to reside in Cyprus, Nicosia is usually the leading area for those that are aiming to function as well as incorporate, while much of the expat favourites are on the south of the island. The north is still very dependent on Turkey for help, especially as it is not recognised worldwide as a sovereign state so struggles to create industry similarly as the south.

On The Coastline

Limassol, on the south of the island, is an additional historic and financial hub, house to the ancient city of Amathus, the Kourion Greco-Roman theater as well as the medieval 13th-century Kolossi Castle. The city is just one of the liveliest on the island, as well as locations like the Limassol Marina and also the Fasouri Watermania Park are some of one of the most prominent tourist locations, implying those that reside in the seaside city can delight in bustling summers, while still having the location to themselves in the mild winters months. With choosing the right Property for sale in Cyprus of night life and also a beautiful boardwalk close by the smooth, modern-day marina to enjoy the pleasant climate, it is no surprise Limassol has long been elected a favorite place to obey British expats, it easily combines ancient and also contemporary.

An additional most likely city destination for those thinking of transferring to Cyprus is Larnaca, the 3rd largest city in Cyprus, and also where you'll find Larnaca International Airport. Life below is most definitely a little slower than Nicosia as well as Limassol, however equally historical as well as pretty.

The Finikoudes coastline and also boardwalk is just one of the nicest locations in Larnaca, perfect for warm strolls with cozy waters and tidy sands. Larnaca uses deportees a little bit even more of a standard speed of life, far from the more energetic locations of the island, as well as its tourism is a little lower, meaning you can appreciate its quaint beauties without having to share them with too many people.Named a 2017 European City of Culture, the little harbour city of Paphos has long been a British favourite for holiday homes as well as is frequently voted the very best area to live for deportees. It's not difficult to see why, right here you'll locate one of the Mediterranean's most attractive harbours, a tangle of roads in the old town with good-looking colonial structures and genuine Cypriot life happening. There is the Paphos Archaeological Park, just outside of community with its awesome sea views. The rate of life here is slower, yet with a genuine local feeling and also stunning borders.

Off The Beaten Track

Naturally, those deportees who aren't always searching for work possibilities or the buzz of city life, commonly think about an extra country escape. There are picture-perfect villages with stone homes, or perhaps a lot more singular country residential properties, while others decide to resolve right on the shore. The wonderful thing about Cyprus is that absolutely nothing is ever too away, so you can take pleasure in the city, knowing you can run away to the coastline or countryside, or the other way around. If you're thinking of transferring to Cyprus, initially you need to think of what you desire from a step; whether it's tranquil as well as beach-side relaxation (possibly Paphos is for you), historical streets as well as excellent purchasing (take into consideration Nicosia), or maybe you are searching for fun and also amazing night-life alternatives (consider Limassol).

An island where old culture is still commemorated, there is still a focus on family and also a fascination with great food, not to mention a welcoming atmosphere, it is no surprise 70,000 Britons like to call Cyprus residence.

If you're considering moving to Cyprus, you're in good company. From hunter-gatherer societies 12,000 years ago to Alexander the Great, Richard the Lionheart and also the British Realm, all have desired a piece of this beautiful island.

In the funding, Nicosia-- residence to 240,000 of the 1.2million-strong population-- is a sign of this island's split standing. Larnaca supplies deportees a little bit more of a conventional pace of life, away from the extra energetic areas of the island, as well as its tourism is somewhat lower, implying you can appreciate its old-world appeals without having to share them with as well several people.Named a 2017 European City of Society, the little harbour city of Paphos has long been a British favourite for holiday houses as well as is regularly elected the ideal place to live for deportees. collaborating using ilisters apartments for sale paphos concerning Cyprus is that absolutely nothing is ever before as well much away, so you can take pleasure in the city, understanding you can escape to the coastline or countryside, or vice versa.

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Analysis: A turbulent 2020 spurs Greece to rearm

Analysis: A turbulent 2020 spurs Greece to rearm

Athens, Greece – France is completing the sale of 18 Rafale jets to Greece ahead of January, when French defence minister Florence Parly is to visit Athens to sign it.

The sale will make Greece the first European client for the advanced plane, in a deal valued at 2.5bn euros ($3bn).

It is Greece’s first significant defence equipment purchase since 2005, when it bought more than 300 Leopard tanks from Germany, and its first investment in a new combat aircraft since buying French Mirage 2000s in 1989.

Greece’s overall defence spending halved from 7.88bn euros in 2009 to 3.75bn euros in 2018, as an eight-year recession led to budget cuts. Greece is sharply increasing its defence spending by 43 percent this year, to 5.5bn euros ($6.7bn).

The reason is that Greece and Turkey have had their most acrimonious year since 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus in response to a Greek coup attempt, and a war in the Aegean was narrowly averted.

“I think we are at one minute to midnight as far as a conflict with Turkey is concerned,” Kostas Grivas, who teaches geopolitics and weapons systems at the Hellenic Army Academy, told Al Jazeera.

Greece is in such a hurry to acquire the Rafale, it pressed France to deliver the first squadron by May, six months ahead of the original schedule. Its pilots will fly to France for training in the coming weeks.

Last September, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece will buy four new frigates and upgrade four existing ones, giving it a blue water navy capable of projecting power beyond the Aegean.

He also announced 15,000 new career positions in the armed forces. Greece is currently in the process of upgrading 85 of its Lockheed Martin F-16s to Viper level, turning them into fourth-generation fighter aircraft.

Tactically, the Rafale allows Greece to strike anywhere within Turkey, having a range of up to 3,700km, twice that of the Mirage and four times that of the F-16. It carries the most advanced European missiles, the Meteor, Mica, Scalp and Exocet.

It also carries a 200km-radius radar capable of tracking 40 targets and engaging eight of them, enabling it to act as a force co-ordinator. Greece believes it can thus increase its deterrent capability against a Turkish first strike.

“Greece has no claims on anybody, but is 100 percent ready to defend its rights,” said Dimitris Kairidis, who teaches international relations at Panteion University in Athens.

East Med crisis

Greece’s complaint against Turkey is that it is prospecting for undersea oil and gas in what Greece considers its Exclusive Economic Zone, a commercial sovereignty conferred by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

“We want a constructive dialogue on delimitation of maritime boundaries,” said Kairidis, but Turkey has so far been unwilling to oblige.

The Rafale deal is as much about politics as tactics. Greece and France are currently in talks for a defensive alliance that might include Greece’s buying French-made Belh@rra frigates.

“There will probably be a defence agreement in the coming weeks,” said Angelos Syrigos, who teaches international law at Panteion University.

In fact, Greece already signed one such defence agreement with the United Arab Emirates on November 18.

“ says that Greece and the UAE will rush to each other’s aid defensively should they receive an attack, and the terms remain to be filled in,” said Syrigos.

“Greece hasn’t signed a similar agreement with a country that isn’t in NATO or the European Union.”

The agreement was conceived during a standoff between the Greek and Turkish navies that began on July 21, when Turkey announced its exploration plans, and ended on November 30, when it sent its seismic survey ship Oruc Reis back to port, having collected 11,000km of seismic data.

During this period, Syrigos said, “the only country which sent aircraft to Greece was the Emirates. This was something that was really appreciated by the Greek government and the next step was the signing of this strategic relationship.”

Greece is also developing closer defence ties with Egypt and Israel.

Calls to sanction Turkey ignored

Athens is ferreting out such bilateral ties because it has been disappointed in the organisations it has traditionally relied upon for its security. NATO has not called Turkey to order for upsetting another member of the alliance. Nor has the EU, for threatening its sovereign rights.

On October 1, EU leaders overcame Cyprus’s objections to imposing sanctions on Belarus, for violently repressing protests, but not against Turkey, for what Greece and others say was Ankara’s violation of Cyprus’s Exclusive Economic Zone.

On October 12, Greece demanded sanctions on Turkey for occupying the ghost town of Varosha in Cyprus, against UN Security Council resolutions. The matter was deferred to the December summit, but then deferred again to the March summit.

“The Council decisions were no surprise given the divergent views among EU member states and the consensus-based decision-making system in foreign and security policy issues,” said Ioannis Grigoriadis, who teaches European studies at Bilkent University in Ankara.

He believes that divergence owes to “different interests on key issues in the Mediterranean”.

Failing its demand for sanctions, Greece wrote to Germany, Spain and Italy, asking them to halt arms sales to Turkey, as France halted the sale of two Mistral ships to Russia following its occupation of the Crimea in 2014. Greece’s EU partners did not oblige.

Greece is particularly incensed that Germany will build six type-214 submarines for the Turkish navy. Greece was the first international customer for the cutting-edge submarine in 2009, and helped solve many of its design flaws.

“It teaches us that Europe doesn’t have a Turkey strategy, and in fact, doesn’t know what to do,” said Syrigos.

France is the only major EU military power to have emerged as a strong supporter of Greece and Cyprus.

“France sees that if Turkey wins influence over Greece and Cyprus, then Turkey will become the major power in the East Mediterranean, pushing Egypt and Israel to the sidelines and forcing them into an alliance,” said Grivas. “If it succeeds, the East Mediterranean will become a Turkish lake.”

Three days after the EU refused to sanction Turkey, the United States did.

With veto-proof majorities, Congress banned US technology exports and loans to the Presidency of Turkish Defence Industries, the arm of the defence ministry which oversees procurement contracts and sets policy on defence infrastructure.

The sanctions were not about Greece and Cyprus, but Turkey’s procurement of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles; but many supporters of the sanctions view them as a broader message to Turkey.

“We have witnessed violations of Greek airspace, illegal exploration efforts in Greek and Cypriot waters, an offensive violation of UN Security Council resolutions in Famagusta (Varosha). Without a resolute response this unchecked aggression will only continue,” said Senator Bob Menendez, one of the key sponsors of the sanctions, which have the potential to grow.

“America has presented Turkey with a choice – either to choose the West, to choose NATO, to choose America, or to continue on its rapprochement with Russia, to drift away from the West, and continue on its Eurasian way,” said Kairidis.

He also thinks the US has issued “a signal to the Europeans … to Berlin, basically, to proceed further on the path of containing and reversing Turkey’s current path.”

Turkey has said it will not reverse the purchase of the S-400 missiles.

What to expect in 2021

So what will happen in 2021, with Greece rearming, Turkey straddling alliances with east and west, the US taking a firmer hand and the EU meandering?

Grivas believes Greece will redraw the geopolitical map of the East Mediterranean through a chain of essentially anti-Turkey alliances.

“Israel’s new relationship with Arab nations… permits the creation of a bridge of countries starting in France, passing through Greece and Cyprus, going to Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and reaching India,” he said, calling it “a barrier against the dangerous network Turkey is trying to create with Pakistan and Turkic nations.”

“I wish I were optimistic,” said Kairidis, looking to the year ahead. “Turkey was engaged in three wars in 2020, in Libya, Syria and the Caucasus. It is militarily present in nine countries. It is increasing its military budget.”

Syrigos sees Greece’s best hope in its new bilateral alliances.

As for Turkey, he said: “ Biden will see Turkey via the lens of its relations with Russia. If Erdogan decides to have strong relations with Russia and continues to buy weapons, uses the S400, then the US will impose severe sanctions on Turkey.”

The stage is set for further confrontation.

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Turkey says mosque attacks on Cyprus will go 'unanswered'

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Events 7.15 (after 1900)

1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. 1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. 1920 – Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. 1922 – The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan. 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna. 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps. 1946 – The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom. 1954 – The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight. 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. 1959 – The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. 1966 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. 1971 – The United Red Army is founded in Japan. 1974 – In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. 1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". 1983 – An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured. 1983 – Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan. 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. 1998 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine. 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. 2002 – The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life. 2003 – AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. 2006 – Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168. 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style. 2014 – A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others. 2016 – Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup. 2018 – France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2. 2021 – Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash.

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Achraf Hakimi headlines Africa's biggest transfer moves

The likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi may have stolen the headlines in one of the most memorable transfer windows, but there were also moves aplenty for African footballers.

BBC Sport Africa wraps up the continent's biggest transfers.

FRANCE - Ligue 1

Achraf Hakimi won Serie A with Inter Milan last season

In France, Moroccan full-back Achraf Hakimi proved the most expensive African of the window.

Paris Saint-Germain may have wanted Messi, but they also wanted Hakimi who cost around $70m from Inter Milan, for whom he played a pivotal role in Inter's first title in 11 years.

With financial uncertainty engulfing the Italians, PSG moved swiftly to secure the services of the former Real Madrid player - who scored on his league debut against Troyes.

Elsewhere in France, Marseille sealed a season-long loan deal with German club Schalke for 24-year-old Moroccan attacking midfielder Amine Harit.

Algeria's African champion Andy Delort has swapped Montpellier for Nice in a three-year deal while exciting Ghana winger Kamaldeen Sulemana, 19, arrived at Rennes on a five-year deal from Danish outfit FC Nordsjaelland.

Six years after leaving France for Italian giants Juventus, Gabon midfielder Mario Lemina returned when joining Nice from Southampton, for whom he played 52 times in the Premier League.

ENGLAND - Premier League

Daka struck the net 68 times in 125 appearances for Red Bull Salzburg in all competitions

Long touted as one of football's future stars, Zambia's Patson Daka finally got the big money move his eye-catching performances for Austrian side RB Salzburg over the last two years have earned.

Daka joined Premier League side Leicester City for $30m, a record transfer fee for a Zambian.

Brighton and Hove Albion were also on the hunt for a Zambian, reportedly paying some $26m to bring in midfielder Enock Mwepu - a close friend of Daka - from RB Salzburg.

Nicknamed 'Computer', Mwepu, 23, arrives to bolster the Seagulls' numbers in the middle but he can also play across midfield - either out wide (as he did on occasion for Salzburg), deep in midfield or closer to the forward line.

After almost six years in Scandinavia, Nigerian Frank Onyeka signed a five-year contract with Brentford from Danish club Midtjylland while the Premier League newboys also captured DR Congo forward Yoane Wissa from French outfit Lorient.

A winger by trade, the 24-year-old's versatility appealed to Bees coach Thomas Frank, who secured him on a four-year deal.

Elsewhere, Senegal's Abdallah Sima joined Brighton from Slavia Prague but was immediately loaned to Championship side Stoke City, while his compatriot Pape Matar Sarr joined Tottenham Hotspur from Metz.

Already capped by Senegal, the 18-year-old will remain with the French Ligue 1 club on loan for the rest of the season.

Midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo joined Watford on a season-long loan from Stoke City, who have loaned out the 25-year-old Nigerian three times since he joined in 2018.

The Hornets also added firepower with the signing of Etebo's compatriot Emmanuel Dennis from Belgian side Club Brugge on a five-year deal.

GERMANY - Bundesliga

Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi has joined German club Union Berlin on a permanent deal

Nigerian Taiwo Awoniyi, 24, left Liverpool to join German side Union Berlin, where he already has six goals, on a five-year deal.

He scored five goals in 22 games on loan at the Bundesliga club last season and Liverpool have negotiated a 10% sell-on clause in his deal.

Awoniyi, who joined Liverpool in August 2015, never featured for the club and was only granted a work permit to play in the UK in May.

Talented Ivorian defender Odilon Kossounou is already making a strong impression with Bayer Leverkusen, having joined from Club Brugge for just over $27m.

It will come as no surprise, as the German club paid the highest fee ever received by a Jupiler League club in order to snap up the 20-year-old.

Kossounou, who made his international debut for the Ivory Coast in late 2020, "has everything to be able to play an important role in our team in the future" according to Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes.

ITALY - Serie A

Andre Zambo Anguissa moved from the English Championship to Serie A

Andre Zambo Anguissa joins Napoli on loan from English Championship side Fulham to boost his chances of making the Cameroon squad for next year's African Cup of Nations on home soil.

After an underwhelming time at Vicarage Road, Nigeria's Isaac Success left Watford for Udinese on a three-year deal while two more Nigerians, Joel Obi and Simeon 'Simy' Nwankwo, moved to newly-promoted Salernitana.

Obi, 30, signed a one-year deal as a free agent, while Africa's top scorer in Serie A last season with 20 goals, Simy, joins on loan from relegated Crotone with the option of a permanent deal.

Another promoted side, Venezia, also snapped up Nigerian duo of Tyronne Ebuehi (Benfica) and David Okereke (Club Brugge) on loan.

SPAIN - La Liga

Ilaix Moriba, just 18, has left Barcelona

The end of the transfer window provided a resolution for one of the summer's more protracted storylines, as 18-year-old Ilaix Moriba ended his association with Spanish giants Barcelona.

German side RB Leipzig won the race to sign the highly-coveted Guinean midfielder, who had fallen out of favour at Camp Nou after he stalled on signing a new contract.

"There aren't many players his age that bring that much talent to the table at a top-level," Leipzig Technical Director Christopher Vivell said in a club statement.

Elsewhere, Algeria international Aissa Mandi, 29, signed a four-year deal with Villarreal on a free transfer following the end of his contract at Real Betis.

Senegalese forward Mamadou Sylla Diallo, 27, joined Deportivo Alavés from Girona on a three-year deal, while compatriot Mamadou Loum N'Diaye, 24, was also loaned to Alaves, for a season from Portuguese giants Porto.

Outside the 'Big Five'

Tau believes South Africa can emerge top of Group C

In search of regular football, South African star Percy Tau quit English Premier League side for African football powerhouse Al Ahly of Egypt.

The 27-year-old joined Brighton in 2018 and had successful loan spells with three Belgian clubs - Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, Club Brugge and Anderlecht - before returning to the Albion in January.

He made just six appearances for Albion, making his debut in the FA Cup tie against Newport County in January.

"I have really enjoyed working with Percy," Brighton boss Graham Potter told the club website. "He is very professional and extremely popular, but at this stage of his career he wants to be playing regularly and we understand that. On behalf of everyone at the club, I wish him well for the future."

Elsewhere, Nigeria captain Ahmed Musa joined Fatih Karagumruk on a two-year deal, with veteran Moroccan defender Medhi Benatia, 34, also joining the top-flight Turkish side after becoming a free agent after leaving Qatar club Al-Duhail.

Nigeria's Henry Onyekuru joined Greek giants Olympiakos on a four-year deal from French side Monaco, while Tanzania international Mbwana Samatta joined Belgian club Royal Antwerp on loan from Turkish powerhouse Fenerbahce.

Since joining the Super Lig side from Aston Villa, the first Tanzanian to play in the Premier League has flattered to deceive - managing just five goals in 27 Turkish league appearances last season

Nigeria international Cyriel Dessers has left Belgian club Genk for a swift return to the Dutch Eredivisie with giants Feyenoord, while another Super Eagle - goalkeeper Francis Uzoho - has re-joined Cypriot club AC Omonia Nicosia after terminating his deal with rivals APOEL Nicosia.

Source: BBC Africa

source: https://footballghana.com/

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Every year the TRNC celebrates July 20 as its Peace and Freedom Day to mark the operation – a large-scale military intervention to protect Turkish Cypriots from violence that struck the island in 1974. Cyprus has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, despite a series of diplomatic efforts by the UN to achieve a comprehensive settlement. In the early 1960s, ethnic attacks forced Turkish Cypriots to withdraw into enclaves for their safety. In 1974, a Greek Cypriot coup aiming at Greece's annexation led to Turkey's military intervention as a guarantor power to protect Turkish Cypriots from persecution and violence The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was founded in 1983. The island has seen an on-and-off peace process in recent years, including a failed 2017 initiative in Switzerland under the auspices of guarantor countries Turkey, Greece, and the UK. The Greek Cypriot administration entered the European Union in 2004, the same year that Greek Cypriots thwarted the UN's Annan plan to end the decades-long dispute. #radiosat24web https://www.instagram.com/p/CRhJ9oMNCzC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Thirty-eight organisations denounce the ongoing harassment against KISA and call on the Cypriot authorities to reinstate their official registration as NGO

The following statement appeared on the website of the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) on 19 February 2021, and was signed by 38 international and national organisations.

On 3 March, KISA, a leading non-governmental organisation fighting for equality in Cyprus, will have a hearing that has implications for their very survival.

In December 2020, the Cypriot Minister of Interior abruptly removed KISA, and many other civil society organisations, from the Register of Associations. He did so using his new, self-attributed powers to start a dissolution process for NGOs if certain regulatory requirements were not met within a two-month notice period. In KISA’s case, they informed the authorities of a delay in organising their general assembly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite KISA indicating that all formal requirements would be met within a short time period, and appealing against the Minister’s decision, they were nonetheless deleted from the Register of Associations. 

This is just the latest move in a long campaign to discredit and silence independent voices in Cyprus, in particular KISA, and ultimately attack the foundations of democratic pluralism. The trend of shrinking civic space seems to be dangerously spreading all across the region. For example, in November 2019, Greece proposed worrying amendments to the Greek legislation on NGO registration engaged in activities related to asylum, migration, and social inclusion. On 27 December 2020, the Turkish Parliament approved legislation further restricting NGOs and civil society activities under the guise of countering terrorism.

On 3 March 2021, the Cypriot administrative court will review KISA’s appeal against the decision to remove the organisation from the Register of Associations, through an expedited procedure. If the removal of KISA from the register is confirmed and the procedure for dissolution completed, people in extreme situations of vulnerability will stop receiving crucial help, and Cypriot democracy will lose one of its leading independent voices. [Read more here.]

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What were the ‘Bloody Christmas’ attacks?

What were the ‘Bloody Christmas’ attacks?

Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots were killed in the ‘Bloody Christmas’ attacks by Greek Cypriots in 1963. #BloodyChristmas #CyprusTurks #1963 Subscribe: http://trt.world/subscribe Livestream: http://trt.world/ytlive Facebook: http://trt.world/facebook Twitter: http://trt.world/twitter Instagram: http://trt.world/instagram Visit our website: http://trt.world

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These are the 10 wanted persons for the murders of Greek Cypriots Tassos Isaac & Solomos Solomou (pics) - insight the BLOODY "green line" separating the republic of Cyprus from its OCCUPIED by Turkish INVADING ARMY part - lapolitica.gr

14.09.2020

These are the 10 wanted persons for the murders of Greek Cypriots Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou (pics)

Memories are still fresh.

What happened shall not be forgotten

14/09/2020

It has been 24 years since the brutal murders of Greek Cypriots Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou by the PLANTED "official ministers" with their mobs of the TOTALLY FABRICATED by Turkish invading army pseudo-state in northern part of the Cyprus Republic  and the perpetrators are not only living their lives undisturbed, but are even active in politics in the occupied territories.

Although national and international arrest warrants have been issued for those involved in the brutal killings on 11 and 14 August 1996, so far none of them has been executed.

In fact, one of the murderers, Erhan Arıklı , recently ran for president in the illegal “presidential” elections of the occupied Cypriots territories.

Thus, it is evident that the efforts to punish those involved in the murders and to bring justice were only left on paper.

The authorities of the Republic of Cyprus had then identified 13 perpetrators, for whom a national warrant was issued. Furthermore, they succeeded in registering 10 persons in the list of wanted persons of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), although Interpol rejected the request of the Cypriot Republic for the issuance of arrest warrants for three (3) more perpetrators.

To this day, the arrest warrants remain unexecuted in the Interpol database, five (5) of them concerning the murder of Isaac and another five concerning the murder of Solomos.

The names are available to the law enforcement authorities who have access to the Interpol database.

In fact, one of the perpetrators has a place on Interpol’s list of most wanted persons; he is 65-year-old Erdal Haciali Emanet, then chief of the so-called “Special Forces” of the occupied by TURKISH INVADING ARMY territories.

Among those wanted for the murder of Isaac is Erhan Arıklı, leader of the Turkish “Rebirth Party” of Turkish INVADERS - settlers, who ran for “president” of the Pseudo-state.

The only time any of these warrants was about to be executed was in 2012, when the Kyrgyz authorities arrested the current “presidential” candidate, Erhan Arıklı, but to no avail, since the case fell apart through the intervention of the Turkish diplomatic authorities and Arıklı was released.

In 2017 he was on vacation in Tunisia, again without being disturbed by anyone.

For the two (2) cases, the Republic of Cyprus issued a total of 13 arrest warrants in the autumn of 1996.

The warrants, issued by order of the then-Attorney General of Cyprus, the late Alekos Markidis, were also forwarded to Interpol, which in turn issued international arrest warrants for the 10 of them.

The names of those wanted for the murder of Tassos Isaac, who are also wanted internationally according to an announcement dated 22 November 1996, were:

Hasim Yilmaz: Turkish settler and former member of the Turkish Secret Service (MIT), who in 1996 had a coffee shop in the city of Kyrenia.

Neyfel Mustafa Ergun: Turkish settler, then 26 years old and a member of the illegal Turkish Cypriot police, who arrived in the occupied territories as a child.

Polat Fikret Koreli: Turkish Cypriot, 17 years old at the time and resident of occupied Famagusta.

Mehmet Mustafa Arslan: 41-year-old Turkish settler and leader of the Grey Wolves in the occupied territories. Resident, at the time, of the occupied part of Nicosia.

Erhan Arıklı: The current candidate for the “presidency” of the pseudo-state, a settler from the former Soviet Union, 40 years old at the time and a permanent resident of the occupied territories since 1986.

On October 30, 1996, the Attorney General’s Office requested the arrest of a total of five people for the murder of Solomos Solomou, who was shot while on the flagpole, while (2) two UN men were also wounded by bullets.

The suspects wanted by Interpol are the following:

Kenan Akin: At the time Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the occupied territories.

Erdal Haciali Emanet: He served as chief of the so-called “Special Forces” of Turkish invading army of the occupied Cypriot territories.

Hasan Kundakci: Former commander of the occupation army.

Attila Sav: At the time Chief of Police of the pseudo-state.

Mehmet Karli: Major General of the occupation army.

The tragic events of August 1996

Everyone’s memories are still fresh.

What happened is difficult to forget.

At the beginning of 1996, the Cyprus Motorcycle Federation announced its decision to organize, in August 1996, a grand anti-occupation rally from Berlin to occupied Famagusta under the slogan: “ Liberation is the only solution”.

The march started on August 2 from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, following a long route through European countries.

The motorcyclists arrived in Limassol, Cyprus on August 10 from Greece by ship.

On the morning of August 11, 1996, 7,000 motorcyclists marched on the barricades of the occupied territories in order to protest. On the afternoon of the same day, 24-year-old Tassos Isaac was brutally murdered while attempting to help another Greek Cypriot, who was being beaten by the Turks.

He was attacked by “rabid” Turks who began to beat him mercilessly with stones and bats, while members of the UN Peacekeeping Force watched, standing idly by.

Tassos Isaac left behind his wife, parents, and sisters.

His wife was pregnant and on September 17, 1996, she gave birth to a baby girl named Anastasia, after her father.

Three (3) days later, on August 14, 1996, the day of the occupation of Famagusta and the day of Isaac’s funeral, the murder of 26-year-old Solomos Solomou took place. Groups of protesters marched on the Deryneia barricade to lay wreaths and flowers at the site where Tassos Isaac was beaten to death. The Turkish soldiers open fire on protesters and the area is shaken once again.

Suddenly, Solomos Solomou ran in front of the protesters and, escaping from the hands of the Peacekeepers, climbed the flagpole to lower the flag of shame, the Turkish flag. Then, settler Kenan Akin, a former officer of the Turkish army, so-called minister of the pseudo-state and agent of the Turkish secret services, shoots Solomou in cold blood.

At his side stands Rauf Denktaş, then leader of the occupied territories.

Source: Phileleftheros newspaper

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