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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
  
It remains very cold and once again we are getting some heavy rain and thunder storms. Everybody here is saying the coldest they have known but we suppose that the consolation is that it will soon be getting warm again as it usually does and probably a lot sooner than it will for you all in UK.
Some interesting bits in this weeks paper and the first of these relates to CTA. It seems that workers at Cyprus Turkish Airlines are on the verge of an uprising amid fears that nearly half of them face the sack. The airline is £80 million in debt and figur
es of 300 of the 690 staff must go are being talked about. The plans are to restructure through co-operation with Turkish airlines by September this year. Guess we might see some problems ahead.
A recent Eurobarometer survey shows that Turkish Cypriots are increasingly losing faith in both the UN and the EU. This comes just after the visit of Ban Ki-moon to the island. Politicians are suggesting that his visit was a charade to show that the talks are going well. The former president here says that during the meetings they witnessed that the difficulties are continuing at the talks. He said that anybody reading the South's press can see that they have no intention of abandoning the title of the government of Cyprus and that they do not want to share anything with the North.
Much is being written by many about the Orams decision and the way forward for the government here, but at this time strong government is clearly needed and the Turkish Cypriots must get the message across that they have rights to and that ethnic cleansing was a fact that cannot be hidden.
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