Sir,
I felt obliged to respond to the email by the so-called Austrian Richard Melisch as it was so full of ignorance that people reading it could be easily mislead.
Berlin is not the second largest Turkish city and Vienna is certainly not the third. In truth, both cities are nowhere near the top 100.
Sir,
Comments made against Turkish EU membership by so-called ‘Danes’ and ‘Austrians’ (Letters to the editor, Sunday Mail, October 17) are pathetic attempts to scare-monger the public.
Unfortuntely they come at a bad time, in the post 9/11 period where islamaphobia coupled with Turkophobia are widespread.
TURKISH Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash yesterday asked the head of a party opposed to Cyprus reunification to try to build a new ‘government’ following the resignation of pro-settlement ‘Prime Minister’ Mehmet Ali Talat.
Talat’s coalition, which quit on Wednesday, lost its parliamentary majority in April, two days after Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the Annan plan.
THERE were signals yesterday that direct flights to the Turkish Cypriot could soon be under way after two officials from the United States Transport and Security Administration paid a two-day visit to Tymbou (Ercan) airport.
IN THE END it is the only way: police have proposed to parliament to amend the law and introduce penalty points for drivers booked speaking on the mobile phone while at the wheel.
Anyone caught talking (let alone texting) and driving currently faces a fine of £50.
EDUCATION Minister Pefkios Georgiades is meeting with state teachers’ union OELMEK today to discuss the problem of private lessons after school.
CYPRUS can now officially claim it has some of the best food and chefs in the world. The reason being the island’s remarkable success of winning four medals at the Culinary Olympics held in Germany, which ended with the closing ceremony yesterday.
FOREIGN Minister George Iacovou said yesterday that Britain fully understood Greek Cypriot positions on Turkey’s EU accession prospects and that no new Cyprus initiative could be started until these issues were resolved.
Iacovou was speaking after a meeting yesterday with Britain’s Minister for Europe Denis McShane, who is on the island for a two-day visit.
POTATO growers demanding compensation from the government will wait until next week to decide whether to take industrial action.
Growers had threatened to blockade the Presidential Palace and Larnaca Airport next week if their financial demands were not met by the government.
DESPITE the efforts that Cyprus is making to stand by its international obligations on refugees, it is still a country dealing with xenophobia and prejudice against an increasing tide of immigrants, according to one human rights observer.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
