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Fri, 01 Sep 2006

Latest Wave of Arrest of Journalists in north Cyprus

It is the usual story; suddenly, for no very clear reason, a series of arrests, intimidations, harrasment occurs in north Cyprus. Generally the origin is from the government, military, police and, ofcourse, is somehow related to Turkey. This time, over a time span of few months, several Greek Cypriot journalists were arrested with pretty much bogus charges of filming or photographing military zones. Well, since north Cyprus is pretty much a military zone as a whole, you can imagine how valid(!) of an issue this is! You do not believe me? see for yourself from the official government gazzette at http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/papers/askeriharita.pdf , the gist of this map is that in case of "emergency" everywhere can turn into a 1. level military area. Anyway, I am digressing. I wanted to raise two points: (1) Sevgul Uludag's short e-mail report about a protest by BASIN-SEN (Union of Press Workers) and
Turkish Cypriot Journalists Asociation and Turkish Cypriot Association of Communicators (three pressassociations/unions) , (2) Sami Ozuslu's latest pearl of wisdom that shows how much of a "neo-Denktashism" follower he and other prominent CTP/RTP members are --specifically Yeniduzen columnists. BTW, I use "neo-Denktashism" instead of "new Left", "greened-reds" (note here, this has nothing to be about being an environmentalist!) etc that others use to refer to CTP's new face because it is exactly what they are doing. They are very good students of his in style and tactics -- aha, I got some of you here, before you can get up and list me differences between CTP and Denktash/DP/UBP/etc. Sure, they exist, but I am not calling them identical! Anyway read on!

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