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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
Cyprus Today have also reported on the petition and they say that 1,400 have signed in just four days and I guess if we really work at it we could at least put one more "0" after this number. Remember three years ago when the Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of the Annan Plan, the British Government, the EU and the UN all commited themselves to lift restrictions but so far nothing has happened. Even as recently as May 2006 the PM was heard to state. "We continue to believe that direct flights between the UK and North Cyprus would contribiute materially to ending the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots" As yet they have failed to take any action.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Direct-Fli
ghts Come on get signing.
More chaos this week. The Ministry of the Interior, responsible for our residencies etc, began moving to new offices this week. Apparantly they forgot to tell anybody and in many cases even their own staff, so that people going there to conduct business where running around like headless chickens, just like the staff. When Cyprus Today finally got through to the ministry no official was able to give them the address of the new offices. Only in the TRNC could such chaos reign.
The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay 850,000 Euros compensation to Mrs Myra Xenides who owns several properties in the closed city of Maras. The other important decision that the court made was the recognition of the TRNC bsed "Immovable Properties Commission" as being sufficient domestic remedy for property claims made by Greek Cypriots. The ECHR said that the commission had the competance to decide on the restitution, exchange of properties or payment of compensation. and that appeals against its rulings would have to heard by the TRNC High Court.
Finally the government has banned the importation of left hand drive vehicles to the TRNC. Those vehicles still in the country can be used but their value will be cut and the governemnt expect them to disappear from the roads within a few years. Statistics show that there were 1,000 accidents and several deaths, in road accidents involving "left-hookers" during 2006.
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