President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) Mehmet Ali Talat met with UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon in New York on Oct. 18, 2007, on an official invitation. For the first time ever, Mr. Talat was received on very high level protocol and security mea-surements with escorts and other provisions provided only to presi-dents and prime ministers in the US. The meeting lasted for 40 mi-nutes, 20 minutes longer than that held with Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopulos late last month on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Papadopulos tried to play a dirty Byzantine game shortly before the arrival of Mr. Talat to New York. He announced that he had pre-sented proposals and sent a letter to the UN Secretary General only one day before the meeting. His hopes were to...
23 Ekim 2007 tarihinde T.C. Başbakanı R. T. Erdoğan’ın meslektaşı İngiltere Başbakanı Gordon Brown ile imzaladığı “Türkiye-Birleşik Krallık Stratejik Ortaklık Belgesi 2007/8”de yer alan Kıbrıslı Türkler ile ilgili 3.cü maddenin (tarafımdan yapılan) Türkçe çevirisi aynen “Kıbrıs Türklerine uygulanan izolasyonların sona erdirilmesine yardım etmek ve uluslararası toplumu bu yöndeki çabalarımıza ortak olması yönünde teşvik etmek” şeklindedir ve yoruma gerek bırakmayacak şekilde çok açık ifadelerle kaleme alınmıştır.
Bu maddeye ilaveten belgedeki diğer maddelerin içinde yer alan “İngiltere, AB ve Kıbrıslı Türkler arasında doğrudan ticari, ekonomik ve kültürel tema...
The Greek Cypriot administration has tried all possible means to stop ferries sailing from the port of Famagusta in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) to Lattakia of Syria and is still trying. All possible means includes everything from political oppression to blackmail, from political misdirection to bribery, inclusive of the influ-ence of the Orthodox ecclesiastics as well. They have tried everything possible to reach their goal.
I often wonder about those who say the Cyprus problem started after the Turkish intervention in 1974. This depiction is just a fairy tale and is often used to mislead people with minimal knowledge of the issue. It actually started in 1963 and still goes on. I am also perplexed by those who say there are no embargoes on the Turkish Cypriots. F...
Amerika Birleşik Devletlerinin son 120 yıldaki harekât, müdahale, askeri operasyon, işgal ve savaş karnesi bilineni ile üç-beş tane değil, tamı tamına 90 tane. Bunların birincisi 1890’daki Arjantin harekâtı, sonuncusu da 2003’deki Irak’ın işgali.
ABD’nin kendi ülke sınırları içinde yaklaşık 970 askeri üssü bunlara ilaveten de 130 ülkede yaklaşık 700 askeri üssü bulunmaktadır. Denizlerdeki ve havadaki askeri üstünlük ise kesinlikle ABD’nin elindedir. Uzaydaki gücünün ne durumda olduğunu yazmama gerek bile yok.
ABD, tüm askeri harekâtlarının harcamalarını, karşı taraftan tahsil etmek başarısını göstermiş, cebinden bir tek kuruş ödememiştir. Son körfez harekâtında yaptığı tüm harcamaları Suud...
Turkish people are quite sensitive and touchy about certain sig-nificant concepts, like military and militarism, Islam and Islamic prac-tices, religious laws, laicism, the Armenian issue and Turks killed by Armenians during World War I, family relations, martyrs and national dignity.
During the past few days, incidents have hit a number of these nerves as if to indicate planning, rather than mere coincidence. Terror-ists from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ambushed Turkish troops in the Gabar Mountains and ruthlessly executed 15 wounded soldiers at point blank range. This attack engulfed the Turkish people in deep sorrow, as other attacks in the past have done. It has prompted the government to send a decree to the Turkish Parliament, perhaps as early as next week, right afte...
