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.
