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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....

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January 04

- Cyprus Today has been printed again after the holiday period so lets take a look at anything that might interest you,

Electric bills are on the way down. Apparently they are to revamp metering in TRNC in conjunction with Turkcell, the mobile phone company. They are promising 21,000 new meters by the end of 2010 with a further 120,000 on order. The idea is that you will get your bill by text message on your mobile or by logging on to their website. Now that will be intersting to see if they can pull this off

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Turkish postal chiefs are to come to TRNC early in the new year and it is hoped that they will come up with a solution to the missing mail from the UK. The problem still exists and the BRS experiment which showed that only 17 of 82 letters sent reached their destination. The experiment ruled out problems in UK so a solution is being sought in Turkey.

President Talat is still confident that there will be serious progress towards a peace deal on the island, before the presidential elections in April. He says that they are continuing the talks with very strong Turkish support and the current Turkish policy on Cyprus, which focuses on an agreement, is state policy in Ankara. At the same time, the opposition leader in the south has poured cold water on any chance of a peace deal on Cyprus. Remains to be seen who is right, time will tell.
Let us all hope that 2010 sees some sense come out of all this as it sure is time that the two sides recognise that Cyprpus history did not just start in 1974.

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