Posted on 12/31/2002 8:41:58 PM PST by pkpjamestown
Each passing day convinces me more strongly that at any cost, Rauf Denktas is determined not to give any concessions in Cyprus.
He does not care what the public opinion is regarding peace both in Cyprus and Turkey.
He does not care at all for blocking Turkey's road to the EU.
Interestingly enough, all those falcons against peace both in Turkey and Turkish Cyprus are also all anti-EU!
Why is Rauf Denktas so determined to not solve the Cyprus problem?
Because the status quo is already a solution for Mr. Denktas and his falcons, as they together have enjoyed a "dynasty" in Turkish Cyprus for the last 28 years.
I will only give you one simple example today to verify what I mean when I insistently use the term:
"Those who enjoy the system cannot change that very system i.e. the status quo."
Mr. Salih Boyaci's daughter is married to Mr. Rauf Denktas's son Serdar Denktas. Boyaci is the Minister of Tourism in Turkish Cyprus, he is known as "In-Law" in Cyprus, and used to own a bank there i.e. Cyprus Credit Bank.
He owned the bank since 1983.
This bank went into insolvency some two years ago.
According to the official report; $80 million worth of deposits vaporized in the bank!
So far, the State of Turkish Cyprus has paid around $40-42 million worth of deposits back to the owners but some $35-38 million is still not paid.
The monies vaporized in the hands of the "In-Law" but the State is paying for the losses.
Whose money is "state money" anyway?
Most probably, the money sent from the motherland out of our collected taxes!
The Exchequer and Audit Department of Cyprus accused the "In-Law" Salih Boyaci of distorting official documents he gave to the Central Bank and, according to them, Mr. Boyaci has reported fewer deposits than there actually is in the bank.
The distorted documents cover the years 1991, 1995, 96, 97, 98 and 1999.
Mr. Salih Boyaci was chairman of the board of the bank and Mr. Rauf Denktas was the President of Turkish Cyprus during this entire period.
On the other hand, the general manager of the bank, in his testimony, declared that the chairman insisted that the losses of the bank should be reported as profits to the officials in many cases.
Thus, they have manipulated the so-called "Interest Rediscount Account" in many cases.
The "family firms" also owned by "the Dynasty," have not paid a total of $27 million in interest to the bank for the credits borrowed from the bank.
The credits used by the "family firms" are also not recorded in the official records.
Now read this statement very carefully:
Mr. Salih Boyaci was acquitted from all 12 cases he was held responsible for in the bankruptcy of the bank in the mid-December of this year!
A Final Note: Mr. Rauf Denktas has recently appointed the lawyer of Salih Boyaci and the main prosecutor who will appeal this very court decision at the higher Court, to the peace-seeking committees ordered by Kofi Annan's Report on Cyprus.
Some 38,000 public employees joined the one-day strike, which followed a decision by the government last week to go ahead with the tight package to revive the ailing Turkish Cypriot economy, according to the 15 trade unions and non-governmental groups that organized the strike.
The strikers represented 95 percent of the public employees who are members of those unions.
Turkey is the only country to recognize the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Each year Ankara allocates hundreds of millions of dollars to the TRNC, whose economy has been crippled by a long-standing international embargo.
The strike, which was scheduled to end at 1400 GMT, disrupted public transport, airplane flights and ferry services. Doctors in public hospitals were available only for urgent cases, while police had to step up security around prisons, where guards also went on strike.
In the meantime, nearly 15,000 people held a demonstration in the Turkish sector of Nicosia, shouting slogans against Ankara's intervention and calling for the resignation of the government and TRNC President Rauf Denktash.
Security forces had taken heavy security measures at the square where the crowds gathered, but did not intervene.
The TRNC government agreed to implement the austerity package after it failed to pay public employees' salaries earlier this month when Ankara refused to send funds to the TRNC unless the package was put into force.
The package includes tax hikes, an end to the recruitment of new public workers and the abolition of periodic, inflation-linked salary hikes.
The strike came two months after thousands of Turkish Cypriot victims of a banking scandal broke into parliament and briefly took TRNC Prime Minister Dervis Eroglu hostage to protest at the government's failure to pay them previously promised compensation.
The Turkish and Turkish Cypriot press have accused Eroglu's government of corruption and of misusing Ankara's funds for its own political ends.
Cyprus has been divided into a Turkish north and Greek south since 1974, when Turkey occupied the northern third in response to an Athens-engineered coup in Nicosia seeking to unite the island with Greece.
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Ankara (dpa) - Around 5,000 people gathered in the main square of Nicosia on Tuesday to protest against a package of economic measures which the ``Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus'' hopes will combat an economic crisis, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The package envisages a vast range of new taxes and cuts in benefits.
The ``Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus'' is recognised only by Ankara.
The protest, one of the biggest in northern Cyprus, came the same day as a general strike when workers, farmers, shopkeepers and public servants vented their anger at increases in value-added tax, increases in diesel prices, the introduction of taxes on pensions and a freeze on government hiring.
The economic crisis began when five private banks collapsed earlier in the year and thousands of Cypriot Turks lost their life savings.
According to a report appearing in Greek daily Vradini, the Greek Cypriot administration has decided to offer the United States permanent use of a military airbase within Southern Cyprus. The report said that the offer was designed to counter Turkey’s leverage with the US, as the new airbase would have the same status and capabilities as the current US Incirlik Airbase in Adana, Turkey. /Cumhuriyet/
SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER, DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF PRESS AND INFORMATION
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=8386
Is it because the same crooks are running the lives of the Turks in Turkey?(see below)
HURRIYET (LIBERAL)
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REPUBLIC OF A GLASS OF WATER
Those who swindled people's money, recommend their customers, ''we have lost your money. Please, drink a glass of cold water'' by making fun. Fadil Akgunduz who caused people to lose 400 million U.S. dollars, was elected an independent deputy in the general elections on November 3, 2002. Meanwhile, Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, the owner of Yapi Kredi Bankasi who transferred 2.8 quadrillion Turkish liras to some companies illegally, will be saved with money of people. 20 billion U.S. dollars part of the 30 billion U.S. dollars of loan which was lended to Turkey by the International Monetary Fund, will be spent to save these shameless swindlers.
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=8420
Gee. Remove all the crooks from politics in Greece and Turkey,
who would there be left to govern??
Be sensible!
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