TURKISH CYPRIOT AND TURKISH MEDIA REVIEW
C O N T E N T S
No. 123/13 03/07/2013
1.
Afrika: The voters will punish by boycotting the political parties who bow on
AKP demands
2.
CTP announced its political manifesto for the “elections”
3.
Kucuk said that they will continue to grant “TRNC citizenships” and allocate
plots in rural zones
4.
YKP to participate with the observer member status in the European Left Party
conference
5.
“Mayor” of occupied Lefkosia stressed his readiness for cultural cooperation
with Italian cities
6.
Cicek re-elected as Turkish Parliament Speaker
7.
KRG pressures Baghdad with Turkey
oil pipeline
1.
Afrika: The voters will punish by boycotting the political parties who bow
on AKP demands
Under the title “The voters punish by
boycotting”, Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika (03.07.13) writes that the political
parties in the breakaway regime did not react against the salaries threads and
the blackmails opposed to the “government” of Sibel Siber by the ruling Justice
and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey and notes that the voters will reply by
punishing the parties boycotting the “elections”.
“After the elections, besides the change
of the persons who sit on the chair, no other change is expected”, writes the
paper which notes that following the call of Turkish Cypriot Primary Teachers’
Union (KTOS) and Turkish Cypriot Primary Teachers’ Union (KTOEOS) to boycott
the forthcoming 28 July “elections”, a reaction came by Ahmet Kaptan, the
chairman of the Turkish Cypriot Public Servants Trade Union (KTAMS). Kaptan who
said that the AKP put the will of the Turkish Cypriots under mortgage stated
that the Turkish Cypriots should fight until the end in order to administrate
themselves.
2.
CTP announced its political manifesto for the “elections”
Under the title “Radical reforms are a
condition”, Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper writes that the
Republican Turkish Party (CTP) announced yesterday its political manifesto for
the forthcoming 28 July “elections”.
The 212-page manifesto which includes
the “communal vision” and the “social economic program” of the party was
presented in a press conference yesterday by CTP’s chairman Ozkan Yorgancioglu.
The party distributed to the journalists
who attended the press conference the “Regeneration notebook” with the party’s
positions.
According to the party’s manifesto,
radical reforms are needed for the problems faced in the breakaway regime,
politically, socially and economically. In addition new mechanism must be adopted
in the “citizenship” issue. Finally the party notes that it does not take a
step back on the issue of the solution of the Cyprus problem.
3.
Kucuk said that they will continue to grant “TRNC citizenships” and allocate
plots in rural zones
Under the banner headline “Kucuk: Our
hands are clean”, Turkish Cypriot daily Halkin Sesi (03.07.13) reports in its
front page, that the leader of the National Unity Party (UBP) and former “prime minister” of the breakaway
regime Irsen Kucuk, commenting on the investigation that Siber’s “government”
will launch for the activities of the former ruling UBP
“government”, said the following: “Let them investigate as much as they want.
Our hands are clean. We have not hidden anything. We published every decision
in the official gazette and we submitted to the people”.
Kucuk continued: “Within the framework
of our laws, we granted citizenships, we allocated plots in rural zones to our
youths. If our people give us a vote of confidence, we will continue to
allocate plots in rural zones and grant ‘citizenships’.”
4.
YKP to participate with the observer member status in the European Left
Party conference
Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper
(03.07.13) reports that the New Cyprus Party (YKP) will participate with the
observer status member to the conference European Left Party.
The conference will take place in Porto,
Portugal between 6-7 of July 2013. Murat Kanatlι, YKP chairman will represent
the party to the conference.
5.
“Mayor” of occupied Lefkosia stressed his readiness for cultural cooperation
with Italian cities
Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen
newspaper (03.07.13) reports that the “mayor” of occupied Lefkosia Kadri
Fellahoglu met with the Italian ambassador to Lefkosia Guido Cerboni.
The latest developments of the Cyprus
problem and the plans for the improvement of occupied Lefkosia were discussed
during the meeting.
Fellahoglu told the Italian ambassador
that they are ready for cooperation socially and culturally with Italian
cities.
6.
Cicek re-elected as Turkish Parliament Speaker
Turkish daily Milliyet (03.07.13)
reports that Cemil Cicek elected yesterday for the second time as Turkey’s
Parliament Speaker with 299 votes in the third session of the voting. According
to the Constitution, for a new Parliamentary Speaker to be elected, one of the
candidates must receive two-thirds of all votes during the first two voting
sessions, which amounts to 367 votes in total. If such level of support cannot
be attained, in the third session, a simple majority, amounting to 276 votes,
is sought. If the third session also fails to yield any result, the candidate
who receives the highest number of votes becomes the new parliamentary speaker
in the fourth voting session.
Cicek contested against Faruk Bal from
the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)
and Osman Koruturk from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).
7.
KRG pressures Baghdad
with Turkey oil pipeline
Turkish daily Hurriyet Daily News
(online, 03.07.13) reports the following:
“Sparks fly as workmen weld together a
pipeline set to carry crude from the self-ruled Kurdistan region of Iraq to
Turkey, defying the central government and shifting the energy balance of power
in the region.
Some 600 km away, Iraqi officials in
Baghdad’s heavily fortified oil ministry are threatening dire consequences if
the pipeline is completed, but appear powerless to prevent the Kurds exporting
oil without their consent.
Turkey’s courtship of the Kurds has
strained relations with Baghdad, which says the pipeline would set a precedent
for other provinces to pursue independent oil policies, potentially leading to
the break-up of Iraq.
‘They tell us to finish it as soon as
possible because they don’t want the Iraqi government to do something... (but)
it cannot do anything,’ said an engineer at the site in the northern Kurdish
province of Duhok. ‘This is very important for Kurdistan because it will
benefit the economy.’
At an estimated cost of $200 million,
the 281 kilometres pipeline will reduce the autonomous region’s reliance on
Baghdad.
For the Turks, it will open up a new
energy corridor and allow them to scale back their dependence on Russia and
Iran for oil and gas.
Neither side has been deterred by the
United States, which has urged both the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey to abandon the project.
‘The export of oil and gas is not a
monopoly of any single entity to be decided in Baghdad,’ KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami said
in a speech in London last month. ‘Indeed, it is our duty as Iraqis under the
federal constitution to pursue export routes for oil and gas to secure our
future’.”
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