METU (ODTÜ ın Turkısh) ıs one of the oldest Turkısh state unıversıtıes. In 2003 it established a campus in the Omorfo/Kapouti area of Cyprus, which is home to approximately 4,000 students. Around 500 workers are employed there either full time, part time or through private service contracts. Many local businesses in the area rely heavily on footfall from the university. The students are mostly fee paying, although some receive full or partial bursaries from the Turkish state. The Cyprus campus is also very international, in that it attracts not just Turkish and Cypriot students. There are several hundred students from around the middle east and north Africa, who pay between $6.000 and $9,450 annually in course fees.
Η πρωτοβουλία των 68 οικολογικών οργανώσεων, που έβγαλε την προηγούμενη περίοδο δύο ανακοινώσεις ενάντια στην εξόρυξη υδρογονανθράκων και τον πόλεμο, αύριο στις 11μμ πραγματοποιεί δημοσιογραφική διάσκεψη και ανακοινώνει την εκστρατεία Μας σκάβουν τον λάκκο / Kazma bırak – Συνεργασία ενάντια στις εξορύξεις και τον πόλεμο – Savaşa ve hidrokbonların çıkarılmasına karşı işbirliği.
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On Tuesday 10 of November 2020 thousands of people, angry of the turkish intervention before, during and after the presidentail elections, gathered in Dereboyu, a central road of north Nicosia and walked first to the Turkish Embasy and from there to İnönü Square chanting slogans “Ankara Elini Yakamazdın Çek ~ Ankara Take Your Hands of our collars” “Faşizme Karşı Omuz Omuza ~ Shoulder to shoulder against fashism” “Biat Değil Özgürlük ~ No obedience – freedom” “Müdahale Değil İrade~no intervention – will”.” Kıbrıs Laikdir Laik Kalacak ~ Cyprus is secular will remain secular”
While this article was being written, 10.000 turkishcypriots went on the streets against turkish intervention. A report will follow soon.
Ersin Tatar, the candidate of the traditional right wing nationalist party UBP won the elections of the 18th of October in northern Cyprus. With 51.69% to 48.31% defeated Mustafa Akinci, the social democrat president that was in office since 2015. Northern Cyprus is a semi-presidential democratic republic. The role of the president is mainly to negotiate the national question and represent the “state” abroad. The government is formed by the party that has majority in the parliament, while the president has (almost) no authority to the internal regime.
The current European Union is far from the Europe/family that the
advertisements of the state for the current Euroelections are
presenting in the media.
The reality is that the current EU is dominated by austerity policies that serve the profits of big capital and lead workers and youth to poverty and unemployment. The real power, of course, lies in the economic elite and not in the European Parliament, which plays a decorative role.
Türkiye’deki ekonomik kriz hızlı bir şekilde Kuzey Kıbrıs’ı da etkisi altında almaktadır. Bunun sebebi KKTC’deki yönetimin ekonomik ve siyasi olarak TC’ye bağlı olması, para biriminin Türk Lirası olması ve KKTC Merkez Bankası’nın yanı sıra polis ve askerin de TC tarafından kontrol edilmesidir.
KKTC hükümetinin bu ekonomik kriz karşısında ortaya koyduğuönlem paketleri sadece daha fazla kemer sıkma politikalarına ve toplumun daha fazla ekonomik baskı altına girmesine sebep olacaktır. Maaşlar hâlihazırda %25 azalmış durumdadır.
Hükümetin kriz karşısında ortaya koyduğu önlem paketleri, TC hükümetinin her ekonomik protokol ile KKTC’ye, IMF’in borç verdiği ülkelere ve TROYKA’nın Güney Kıbrıs’a empoze ettiği kemer sıkma politikalarının aynısıdır.
On Friday, 26/1, the demonstration for Peace and Democracy, was called by the Trade Union Platform in northern Cyprus, in response to the attack on Afrika newspaper and the Parliament last Monday by the far right and fascists.
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