SERDAR DENKTAS PROTESTS MATSAKIS FOR
STEALING TURKISH FLAG
In a letter sent to the U.N Secretary-General Kofi
Annan, the President of the European Parliament and MP's, the Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Serdar Denktas protested Greek
Cypriot MEP Marios Matsakis for going into the buffer zone in the
Akincilar region and pulling down the Turkish flag from the flag pole.
Serdar Denktas also made a verbal and written complaint
about Matsakis' provocative actions to the UN Peace Keeping Forces.
In his letter, he stressed that by pulling down the
Turkish flag, Matsakis had shown a clear example of the Greek Cypriot
side's escalating enmity against the Turkish Cypriot side.
Adding that this incident could not be separated from
the other provocative actions of the Greek Cypriot side, Serdar Denktas
said, "The Greek Cypriot leadership's policy of enmity towards the Turkish
Cypriots is encouraging such actions. Announcing 2005 as the EOKA Year and
starting to carry out the Nikiforos military exercise are two examples of
the Greek Cypriot side's provocative actions".
He said in order to build relations of trust and good
neighbours between the two sides, at a time when important steps were
being taken by the Turkish Cypriot side in this direction such actions
that were encouraged by the Greek Cypriot side was not encouraging
reconciliation.
PAPAPETRU'S CONFESSION
"WE KEPT TURKISH CYPRIOTS IN GHETTOS"
The newly elected leader of the Greek Cypriot United
Democrats Party (EDI),
Mihalis Papapetru, confessed that the Greek Cypriots
kept Turkish Cypriots in ghettos from 1963-74.
Speaking to the Greek Cypriot 'Alithia' daily Papapetru
said:
"From 1963 until 1974, without taking into
consideration human rights or anything else we imprisoned the Turkish
Cypriots in 'ghettos'. We felt comfortable and happy because the Republic
of Cyprus had become totally Hellenized and the disturbing Turkish
Cypriots were not in our way. We shouldn't make the same mistake again or
believe that we'll continue to rule again".
