Pointing out that accompanied by Greek Cypriots, certain people are going to the families of the (Turkish Cypriot) martyrs and requesting them to give blood so that the (Turkish Cypriot) martyrs’ buried in the South can be identified and handed over to their families in the North, President Denktas warned the martyrs’ families to be patient and said, the Greek Cypriots by trying to hand over these martyrs, one by one, are trying to conceal the massacres that they carried out in these mass graves and are running away from the burden of compensating the families of those people.

The President pointing out that, just as there are in the South, there are also mass graves in the North of Greek Cypriots who were killled by Greek Cypriots during the Greek coup, said in the event of the places of these mass graves being identified by the Greek Cypriots the remains of those killed could be handed back to their families in the South. He added that in this way it would be possible to proceed to the stage of carrying out reciprocal searches on the graves and to exchange the remains.

In a meeting yesterday the TRNC Council of Ministers, headed by Prime Minister Dr. Dervis Eroglu, in order to deal with the issue of exchanging or compenstating Greek Cypriot properties that were left in the North, under "Article 159, Paragraph 4 of the Law for Compensating Immoveable Properties Left Within the Boundaries of the TRNC", appointed seven members to the Commission for the Compensation of Immoveable Properties.

The newly appointed Commission members are Salih Dayioglu, who retired as the former Head of the Supreme Court, was appointed as the Head of the Commission, Kutlu Fuat, who worked for many years as a lawyer in Europe and has now returned to the TRNC, retired Deputy Attorney General , Yasar Boran, retired Prosecutor, Guven Silman, former Director of the Map Department, Halil Giray, former Manager of the Deeds Office, Necat Yazman and former Undersecretary of the Town Planning Office of the Prime Ministry, Tamer Gazioglu.

Announcing the decsion, the Spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Salih Miroglu, the Minister for Public Works and Transport, said: "Following the Council of Minister’s decision the Commission is now officially in operation. They will now evaluate the applications of Greek Cypriots living in the South who claim to have immoveable properties in the North and will make their decisions within the framework of that evaluation".

AUGUST 1, COMMUNAL RESISTANCE DAY TO BE CELEBRATED

August 1, which marks the 27^th Anniversary of the establishment of the Cyprus Turkish Security Forces, the 45^th Anniversary of the Turkish Cypriot Resistance Movement (TMT) and the 432^nd Anniversary of Cyprus’ conquest by the Ottomans, will be celebrated tomorrow with various activities taking place throughout the TRNC.

Ceremonies will start tomorrow morning at 09:30am at the Ataturk Monument in Lefkosa.

One of the founders of the "Turkish Friends Group" in the U.S.A Congress, Senator Robert Wexler from Florida of the Democrat Party has stated that President Denktas’ concerns on the Annan Plan are legitimate and that these concerns should seriously be taken into consideration.