FOREIGN MINISTRY: “GREEK CYPRIOT SIDE’S
ATTEMPT TO QUESTION THE STATUS OF BRITISH BASES IN
CYPRUS IS UNACCEPTABLE”
Deputy Prime Ministry and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs accused the Greek Cypriot Administration of
South Cyprus of trying to prevent any possible
openings by the UK towards the Turkish Cypriot
people by threatening to reconsider the future
status of Sovereign British Bases in Cyprus.
In a written statement issued on Friday (25 January)
the Foreign Ministry stated that the news appeared
in the Greek Cypriot press to the effect that Greek
Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos conveyed to the
British Government that the future status of
Sovereign British Bases in Cyprus will be
reconsidered in opposition to the Strategic
Partnership Document signed earlier between UK and
Turkey was being followed. It has been stated that
the Greek Cypriot leadership, who wanted to prevent
any possible openings by the UK towards the Turkish
Cypriot people, was trying to blackmail the British
Government in retaliation to the agreement signed
between the UK and Turkey. The statement added that
however the Greek Cypriot side’s attitude towards
questioning the status of the British Bases in
Cyprus was unacceptable.
The statement explained that the existence of
Sovereign British Bases in Cyprus derives from the
1960 Agreements, thus it was impossible for Tassos
Papadopoulos to unilaterally question the status of
the bases and take initiatives on the issue. The
statement reminded that the 1960 Agreement was
approved by Turkish Cypriots, Greek Cypriots and the
guarantor powers of Cyprus; Turkey, Greece and UK.
The statement added that Papadopoulos’ attempt to
consider the issue of British Bases in Cyprus
without consulting the views of other parties
concerned was a clear breach of international law
and was also another example of Greek Cypriot policy
which ignores the right of say of the Turkish
Cypriot people. It was stressed that Papadopoulos’
initiative was an attack against the rights of the
guarantor powers on the island.
The statement continued by saying that Papadopoulos
who was spending every effort for the continuation
of the isolation imposed upon the Turkish Cypriot
people this time by attempting to question the
existence and status of the British Sovereign Bases
in the island was in fact trying to expand its
hegemony over the whole island and to eliminate the
right of say of the Turkish Cypriots who were one of
the two equal founding partners of the 1960 Republic
and whose rights on the issue of British Bases were
registered through international agreements.
The statement expressed the belief that collocutors
will give the necessary response to such blackmails
brought against the British government.
NAMES OF IDENTIFIED 6 TURKISH CYPRIOT
MISSING PERSONS ANNOUNCED
The names of identified 6 Turkish Cypriot missing
persons found in South Cyprus within the framework
of the ongoing exhumation studies of the Autonomous
Missing Persons Committee have been announced.
According to the statement issued by the Chairman of
the Association of Martyrs’ Families and Veterans
Ertan Ersan, the names of identified 6 Turkish
Cypriot missing persons who died martyrs after being
kidnapped by the Greek Cypriots in 1974, are as
follows:
“Fehim Hüseyin, Kamil Hüseyin Kužuri, Żsmail Ali,
Ahmet Cemal, Erdošan Enver and Ünal Ali.”
50th ANNIVERSARY OF 27-28
JANUARY RESISTANCE
50th Anniversary of 27-28 January
Resistance, put up by the Turkish Cypriot people
against the British Colonial Rule in Cyprus in 1958
and the martyrs who fell during this resistance were
remembered today (28 January) with ceremonies.
The first ceremony was held in front of the Martyrs’
Monument where wreaths were laid and this was
followed by a ceremony at Kucuk Kaymaklż Cemetery.
7 Turkish Cypriots died martyrs during this
resistance against British Colonial Rule.
TIMVIOS APPLIED AGAIN TO THE ECHR
AGAINST THE GREEK CYPRIOT ADMINISTRATION
Greek Cypriot Mike Tymvios who had applied to the
Immovable Property Commission in Northern Cyprus and
agreed to exhange his property in the north with a
Turkish Cypriot for land in Larnaca has applied to
the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accusing
the Greek Cypriot government for persecuting him
over the deal. Tymvios said in his recent letter to
the ECHR that since his land swap became public
knowledge, the Greek Cypriot administration has
“maliciously and vindictively” been persecuting him.
“Due to accumulated debts and subsequent bankruptcy
procedures, the government of Cyprus has proceeded
and sold through the Official Receiver last week a
plot of land belonging to me without informing me
prior to the sale and at a price much less than its
value. They are now proceeding to do the same with
my clinical lab and all its equipment. This in
effect will leave me without work and all this
because I accepted the friendly settlement.” Tymvios
said in his letter to the court. Moreover, Tymvios
noted that the attitude of the Greek Cypriot
administration was spiteful and although he declared
bankruptcy 6 years ago, selling procedure of his
property has been started recently.
