Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (09.06.16) reports that Sener Elcil, general secretary of the Turkish Cypriot teachers’ Trade Union (KTOS), will take to international courts Turkey’s efforts to turn the occupied area of Cyprus into its province.
In a written statement issued yesterday, Elcil likened the National Unity Party (UBP) ? Democratic Party (DP) self-styled coalition government to the French government which cooperated with the Nazis when France was under German occupation during the World War II.
“We will undertake any kind of initiative to take the members of the government in front of the international justice”, he noted adding that Turkey’s military intervention in 1974 was turned into invasion and occupation by violating the international law.
Elcil said that actions such as privatizations and the establishment of a “coordination office” [by the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports] aim at hiding the occupation and added that the real aim is the assimilation and integration in order to annihilate the Turkish Cypriot community.
