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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
We did of course offer our members a meeting at the Colony in May, and it was extremely well attended; I forget the exact numbers now, but it was in excess of 450 squeezed into the three downstairs rooms. At that meeting members were given a clear and concise up-to-date financial appraisal. In terms of activity, we are working on several fronts: the UK director was featured on the Trevor MacDonald Tonight programme last Monday; the company is also preparing a formal complaint to the UK Press Complaints Commission about an article by Helena Smith in last Monday's Guardian. Eupro also had a full-page advert on Northern Cyprus running in last month's, and this month's edition of Parliamentary Brief, the magazine goes to every member of Parliament, senior civil servants, political journalists and embassies in London; Eupro is preparing PR for the expected ruling this week by the High Court judge, on the Transport for London advertising ban - the court action having been initiated by Eupro through its City lawyers Addleshaw Goddard, - with Michael Beloff QC, representing the case. In Northern Cyprus the government last week passed a law criminalising Greek Cypriot bailiffs and lawyers who attempt to serve summons unlawfully on property owners in the North, a move which adopts the proposals made to the president and prime minister in May. In many ways one of our most successful ventures has been in motivating Turkish Cypriots into constructive action. Recognising that there was a cultural gap in persuading TC's to join Eupro in large numbers, Eupro spawned ICNC, even preparing their draft articles and terms of association for them. Ergun Olgun is the Chair of ICNC, and Ian Betts is a member of Council representing Eupro's interests. ICNC is effectively a carbon copy of Eupro and has a stated objective to support Eupro and Embargoed, as well as working alone its own initiative. The Council has indicated that ICNC will help fund Eupro's many and expensive activities in the UK. It will be appreciated that top quality Legal, PR and Lobbying activity is not cheap, and that Eupro membership subscriptions will not in themselves defray all of Eupro's expense. Eupro has also initiated a demand to the British authorities for information about any - or any potential - European Arrest Warrants issued against individuals. In the event that acceptable information is not forthcoming, it is anticipated that this will culminate in a judicial review in London. Eupro also sought and received advice from Addleshaw Goddard re the Orams case and has passed this information onto the TRNC government pending the next step in that case. ICNC are staging a major event in Girne and Lefkosa on July 15th; this will recognise the day, self styled by Greek Cypriots, as Greek Day of Shame, when the Greek Junta inspired a coup against the self appointed Greek Cypriot government of the day, in an attempt to topple Makarios. In the outcome many Greek Cypriots were killed by their fellow countrymen because they held a different point of view. The intention of the action is to remind the world of the reasons behind Turkey's intervention five days later on July 20th 1974. Incidentally it would be nice to receive some support from the various recipients of the original email, many of whom seem to have a significant interest in the well being of the TRNC.At the moment, our neighbours Stewart and Barbara are enjoying themselves in UK and we are doing a bit of house watching and cat feeding. They have two cats, Felix who we see occasionally wandering the garden, but he is not too user friendly and Lucky who is around the same age as our Smudge. Those two play together often and are seen resting in the cool evening air before their next boxing match. |
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Bit of a busy week with some kitchen goods installations again. It seems that groups of houses are all coming together at the same time, so much so that yesterday I even had to travel to Nicosia twice in one day and when I made it home I said to Joan, to hell with it lets go down to The Silver Grill. Good food, cheap and cheerful with no pretentious pink check table cloths and inflated tourist prices. We mentioned this to George and Susan and they said OK lets join you we have never been there yet.Before going out I had a quick look at my e-mails and low and behold another nasty, this time about the Eupro organisation. Not of course signed by anybody and using one of these general e-mail servers that make things untraceable. Why do people who write this rubbish not have the courage to say who they are and then be able to substantiate there accusations. Below is the original mail, followed by the response to me from Eupro, as I of course passed it on.Subject: Eupro |