Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (07.12.12) reports that Ozkan Yorgancioglu, leader of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP) has accused the Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu of being unwilling to solve the Cyprus problem. Speaking yesterday at the “assembly” during the discussion of the “budget” of Eroglu’s office, Yorgancioglu said that Eroglu, just like his National Unity Party (UBP), is unwilling on the issue of the solution of the Cyprus problem.
Yorgancioglu argued that in spite of the progress achieved during former Turkish Cypriot leader Talat’s period, during Eroglu’s period there was a regression in the Cyprus talks and the international climate, which had been in favor of the Turkish Cypriots, started to be turned against them.
Yorgancioglu accused Eroglu of hiding a Greek Cypriot proposal on the property issue, submitted during the Second Green Tree Summit, according to which “there was no need for the property owner to have the first say”.
Meanwhile, according to Turkish Cypriot daily Ortam newspaper (07.12.12), Mehmet Cakici, leader of the Social Democracy Party (TDP) also accused Eroglu and the UBP of not wanting a solution in Cyprus. Addressing the same meeting of the “assembly”, Cakici referred, inter alia, to the natural gas and oil reserves in Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone and alleged that the “TRNC” has also a right on these resources. He argued that they should defend these rights and the natural gas or oil should be transferred to Europe through Turkey. “An equal agreement” is absolutely necessary in Cyprus in order for this to happen, he said.
Eroglu accused of being unwilling to solve the Cyprus problem
