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TURKISH CYPRIOT PRESS AND OTHER MEDIA (Cyprus PIO review) 96-03-15From: Panayiotis Zaphiris <pzaphiri@Glue.umd.edu>Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office DirectoryTURKISH PRESS AND OTHER MEDIANo. 50/96 15.3.96CONTENTS[A] NEWS ITEMS[01] COZAR MEETS AYFER YILMAZ IN ANKARA[02] RTP INSISTS ON FEDERATION AND POLITICAL EQUALITY[03] "JOURNAL FOR CYPRIOT STUDIES"[B] COMMENTS AND EDITORIALS[04] "TO BE OR NOT TO BE"[A] NEWS ITEMS[01] COZAR MEETS AYFER YILMAZ IN ANKARAAccording to KIBRIS (15.3.96) the so-called Economy and Finance Minister, Salih Cosar, yesterday went to Ankara to meet Turkey's State Minister Responsible for Cyprus Affairs, Ayfer Yilmaz.KIBRIS adds that upon arrival to Ankara Cosar met with Mrs. Yilmaz. During the meeting general economic problems of the occupied area were taken up. Speaking at the meeting Cosar stated that security of the occupied areas was completely dependent on Ankara. In her state- ment, State Minister Ayfer Yilmaz declared that the occupied area should have a strong economy and that Turkey would do all it could in this direction. (MY) [02] RTP INSISTS ON FEDERATION AND POLITICAL EQUALITYAccording to KIBRIS (15.3.96) the Press, Broadcasting and Propaganda Secretary of the Republical Turkish Party, RTP, Ozkan Yorgancioglu, commenting on some criticism directed towards his party regarding the solution of the Cyprus problem, stated that his party's stance had not changed. He stressed that this stance supported a just and lasting federal solution based on political equality.Yorgancioglu noted that this stance had been accepted by Turkey and by the world. (MY) [03] "JOURNAL FOR CYPRIOT STUDIES"According to KIBRIS (15.3.96), the second issue of the so- called Journal for Cypriot Studies, published by the so-called East Mediterranean University, is put into circulation.Zaim Necatigil, Tuncer Bagizkan, Tacgen Debes, Altay Sayil, Umit Bozkart, Ismail Bozkurtne, Necati Yildiz are on the edito- rial staff of the 83-page journal. (MY) [B] COMMENTS AND EDITORIALS[04] "TO BE OR NOT TO BE"Ozker Ozgur writing in YENIDUZEN (15.3.96) under the title "To be or not to be" refers to criticism launched against the President of the Secondary School Teachers' Union, Ali Alnar, regarding his attack against the so-called Turkish envoy Karahan who overstepping his duties held a press conference during which he proposed that energy production in the occupied area be pri- vatized and power station at the occupied Trapeza be transferred to a Turkish company, STFA.Ali Alnar rejected Karahan's proposal which he said was tan- tamount to turning the Turkish Cypriots into a subject that could not stand on its own two feet. Ozgur says that Alnar's just remarks worried some people who started a campaign against him accusing him of being a fifth fal- angist and a provocator, aiming at sowing seeds of division between Turkish Cypriots and mainland Turks, having obscure aims etc. He also recalls what happened to him in 1989 when he opposed the idea of resettling mainlanders in the occupied area, a demographic policy conceived by the late Turkish President Tur- gut Ozal. "They pulled the earth on me, I have been forced to enter Turkey with a visa until I became a deputy Prime Minister" says Ozgur, and adds that those who criticized him then now come to him and justify him. Ozgur dismisses all criticism against Alnar and says that if the Turkish Cypriots want to survive and keep their identity as Turkish Cypriots they should listen to Alnar's criticisms. (MY) |
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