Running out of paper in the north

NEWSPAPERS in the occupied north are fast running out of paper to print on and the occupation army is reportedly blocking the arrival of relief supplies from the government-controlled areas.

According to Turkish Cypriot papers yesterday, the situation is desperate.

Yeniduzen, in a front-page article, reported that it would be out of paper by the end of the week.

The paper said occupation regime authorities had given the go-ahead for paper supplies to be brought over from the south, but the occupation army had put a spanner in the works.

Avrupa informed its readers it had had difficulty coming out yesterday – so low were its supplies of printing paper.

Avrupa reports that Arif Tashin – a candidate for the Patriotic Union Movement in the upcoming elections in the north – had sent a telegram to Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit asking him to intervene to end the printing paper crisis.

The paper questioned the right of the army to intervene to block the occupation regime’s decision to allow paper deliveries from the government-controlled areas.

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.