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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
Tucked up in bed this morning with a coffee and this weeks newspaper, the first of the new year.
Big leading article about the Xmas power cuts and the fact that the cause seems to be failure in overhead power lines which are in urgent need of replacement. It appears that the new power lines should have been in place by June 2006 but due to arguments, soon to be settled in court, about the placing of new pylons, these have been delayed. One day the infrastructure might catch up, that will be nice.
There are still rumblings about opening another crossing to the South. This time right in the middle of Nicosia, linking the two shopping streets between the North and the South. But despite the promises by the Prime Minister it appears that there are still too many obstacles in the way.
The
re was a gunfight, not at the OK Coral, but in a Lapta Casino. This was over the Xmas period and has caused mass deportations back to Turkey and the complete closure of two of the Casinos. It does beg the question as to how some known mafia members from the mainland could have possibly been awarded casino operating licences here.
Four Turkish Cypriots have appealed to the Eurpoean Court of Human Rights for the return of 15 hectares of land with 15 vinyards, shops and a distillery, along with compensation for financial losses since 1974. If the court rules in their favour it could lead to a 7 million compensation order against the Greek Cypriot administration.
Once again there seems to be many complaints about how CTA handled the situation in UK around Xmas with the fog at airports and many cancelled flights. It appears that a total of 800 CTA passengers had their flights cancelled and many were left waiting at Stansted with absolutely no communication from CTA about their eventual fate and nobody answering the London office phone. Will they never learn anything about customer relations. Whilst on this subject, we have still not had our "FREE" ticket situation resolved, although since returning I am reliably informed that there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. Having said all that about CTA it seems there is high praise for Ankara Travel here on the island, who worked long and hard to keep their passengers informed and indeed get many off to UK for Xmas. Well done Ankara, maybe next time you want a ticket, in either direction, you should consider an e-mail to ankaratravel@superonline.com
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