Ozgurgun and Denktas call on Akinci to reveal the minutes of his agreements with President Anastasiades
Turkish Cypriot daily Demokrat Bakis newspaper (11.03.16) reports that Serdar Denktas, chairman of the Democratic Party – National Forces (DP-UG), has called on Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci to urgently reveal together with President Anastasiades everything on which they agreed during the Cyprus negotiations. Addressing yesterday the “assembly” of the regime, Denktas referred to the Cyprus negotiations and raised the issue of the disclosure of the minutes of the National Council by the president of Socialist Party EDEK, Marinos Sizopoulos.
Denktas said referring to Akinci:
“They should urgently announce together with Anastasiades everything on which agreement is reached and not different things to us and different things to the Greek Cypriot side. If Anastasiades is not willing to agree on this, Akinci is in the position to share all the agreements. This is an obligation by the president to his people. Let us know what is happening before it is too late, what the agreements are, so that we raise our voice as people”.
Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot daily Gunes newspaper (11.03.16) reports that Huseyin Ozgurgun, chairman of the National Unity Party (UBP), has called on Akinci to clarify the points of consensus, which the chairman of EDEK alleged that Akinci has reached with President Anastasiades. In a written statement issued yesterday, Ozgurgun argued:
“[…] The statement by Anastasiades, who described as ‘unacceptable’ the disclosure of the minutes of the National Council by Sizopoulos and showed a great reaction to this, that this action gives a trump card to the Turkish side is far from being sincere and aims at deceiving. The fact that the Greek Cypriot leader Anastasiades has not denied the achievement of agreements on various issues on the way to the solution has not escaped attention.
In this situation, starting from the reality that the Turkish Cypriot people have the right to learn the truths regarding their fate in this geographical area from the president, who is assigned with the duty of protecting their rights and interests, as UBP we urgently demand from him to clarify the issues on which consensus has allegedly been reached and relax our people”.
Finally, Ozgurgun criticized statements reportedly made by the Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Eleni Theoharous that the Turkish Cypriots are a minority of 17% in Cyprus which is a Greek island.
(I/Ts.)
