Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (08.08.13) reports that the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu has alleged that asking for the return of the occupied fenced city of Varosha to its legal Greek Cypriot owners is tantamount to intransigence and arrogance. In his message on the occasion of the Islamic feast of Ramadan, Eroglu noted that a “new activity” is expected on the Cyprus issue in October and claimed that if the Greek Cypriots did not break their word, the negotiations should continue from the point they had been left. Noting that trying to start from the scratch would be tantamount to postponing the solution and playing with time, he said that the UN should not allow this to happen.
“In our view, saying to the Turkish side ‘give Varosha and we will start, we want this, we want that’, is intransigence and arrogance”, alleged Eroglu, claiming that the Turkish Cypriots were fed up with what he called as “tricks of the Greek Cypriot side” and with the UN’s and the EU’s ignoring these “tricks”.
Arguing that the Turkish Cypriot “people” do not want to live under isolations and embargoes, Eroglu claimed: “Including the recent elections, our people have always showed that they will never abandon their self-administration, their sovereign rights, their land, their freedom and Motherland Turkey’s active and effective guarantees”.
Referring to the results of the early “parliamentary elections” held on 28 July, Eroglu argued that a new “parliament” has been established with the “will of the people” that was reflected in the ballot box and that the message given by the “people” is consensus as no party could establish a “government” alone. He said that as almost all parties have promised before the “elections”, they would proceed to “constitutional amendments” and change the “laws” as regards holding “elections” and referendum as well as the political parties’ “law”. He noted that a broad consensus should be established for this.
CNA
