{"id":19420,"date":"2010-06-02T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19420"},"modified":"2013-10-13T00:31:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:31:41","slug":"cyprus-news-from-trnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/02\/cyprus-news-from-trnc\/","title":{"rendered":"CYPRUS: NEWS FROM TRNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESIDENT\u00a0 EROGLU BRIEFS POLITICAL PARTIES<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Dervis Eroglu has briefed leaders of political parties having seats at the TRNC parliament on course of the negotiation process. The President will also inform the Council of Ministers on the issue today.<\/p>\n

Following the two hours long\u00a0 meeting, the\u00a0 leaders of the political parties\u00a0 commented on the meeting to the press respectively.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Irsen Kucuk said the President gave information regarding his first meeting with the Greek Cypriot leader and also commented on the next meeting.<\/p>\n

Main opposition party, Republican Turkish Party Leader\u00a0 Ferdi Sabit Soyer speaking to the reporters draw importance to the recent decisions taken by the\u00a0 European Court of Human Rights and said the ECHR\u00a0\u00a0 has confirmed the fact that\u00a0 it is not only the former owner of\u00a0 a particular property\u00a0 that has rights but\u00a0 those people\u00a0 who are currently in possession of\u00a0 that particular property\u00a0 have rights as well.<\/p>\n

The Leader of Democrat Party Serdar Denktas\u00a0 said they warned President on a possible fait accompli and said give and take process should not start at the\u00a0 negotiations\u00a0 before agreeing on all issues.<\/p>\n

The Leader of the Communal\u00a0 Democracy Party Mehmet Cak\u0131c\u0131 pointed out that\u00a0\u00a0 it was wrong to start the property chapter before completing\u00a0 the chapter on governance and power sharing.<\/p>\n

For his part,\u00a0 the Leader of the\u00a0 Freedom and Reform Party Turgay Avc\u0131 said\u00a0 they were pleased to see that the negotiation process would continue from where it was left off.<\/p>\n

EROGLU \u201cI WILL PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF TURKISH CYPRIOTS AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Eroglu \u2013 who will meet with Greek Cypriot Leader Christofias on Thursday – has repeated that he would be protecting the rights of the Cyprus Turkish People at the table.\u00a0 He said everyone\u00a0 should know that he\u00a0 was not intending to give up\u00a0 Turkish Cypriots\u2019 rights\u00a0 at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a visit paid to him yesterday, President Eroglu said that the Cyprus issue does not only concern the presidency but also all segments of society. The President also reiterated that he does not intend to leave the negotiations table.<\/p>\n

Referring to his first meeting with the Greek Cypriot Leader last week, he said that there were attempts to play tricks.<\/p>\n

What is binding on me is the letter I sent to the UN Secretary General. In this letter, the strategy and policies to be followed by me at the talks were explained in detail. The UN Chief or his representative may issue some statements. These are not binding on us\u201d the President said, noting that there hasn\u2019t been an agreement reached yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRESIDENT\u00a0 EROGLU BRIEFS POLITICAL PARTIES President Dervis Eroglu has briefed leaders of political parties having seats at the TRNC parliament on course of the negotiation process. The President will also inform the Council of Ministers on the issue today. Following the two hours long\u00a0 meeting, the\u00a0 leaders of the political parties\u00a0 commented on the meeting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":33028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus-trnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}