For those who follow the news, ‘North Cyprus is to Turkey as Hong Kong is to China’ might make some sense. In the independent territory of Hong Kong, millions have protested against the right of the Chinese government to extradite criminals from the independent territory to China. They argue that the word ‘independent’ means that criminals will be tried in Hong Kong under the prevailing law there and not under Chinese law. China disagreed and the demonstrations to have the Extradition Bill cancelled continue.
OK, let’s look back at the North Cyprus News, which is what you do when you read a paper version of the news when you buy Cyprus Today. Most of the articles it contains have been covered elsewhere, even in North Cyprus Free Press.
I’m hearing all this good news about people in North Cyprus being able to use their mobile phones to phone the south. Apparently, because of fears about the recognition of the ‘pseudo-state’, it took 3 years instead of the 3 days it should have taken.
A Turkish Cypriot bus driver alleged that Greek Cypriots threw rocks and water bottles at his vehicle at Larnaca International Airport while he had 25 tourists inside his bus who had just arrived at LCA from Hungary
Reports are coming in that at least 46 homeowners in Pano Polemidia, Limassol district, are being sued by a Turkish Cypriot landowner who filed lawsuits to claim his property and further seek reparations. The homes were reportedly built on land owned by the Turkish Cypriot because the South Cyprus government reportedly signed the deeds over to Greek Cypriots.
Ten years ago a series of emails were published by NCFP detailing the plight of North Cyprus home buyers on a development in Incesu. Two years later, in 2011, another article was published after the owner of the land, Hasan Sungur, suggested a solution to the problem which was rejected as being too risky. Again two years later, in 2013, the situation was reviewed.
According to Cyprus Mail (6.7.2019) there have been two incidents of individuals ‘betraying the Republic of Cyprus’. One incident was as a result of an article published by one of Cyprus Mail’s own reporters.
According the the Greek Tovima news website (3.7.2019), Turkey has secretly transported 42 German Leopard-2A4 supertanks to Değirmenlik in North Cyprus. Well that’s a lie to start with, as you’re reading about it here then the tank transfer must not be secret. The website alleges that the tanks and their ammunition were transported from the Turkish city of Edirne by cargo ship.
The North Cyprus newspaper Halkın Sesi (03.07.19) reports that Arda Mevlutoglu, expert on defence policies, claims that Israel could have deliberately caused the S-200 missile to target North Cyprus. He was careful to imply that this could have been in order to avoid it targeting one of its planes.
For those who follow the news, ‘North Cyprus is to Turkey as Hong Kong is to China’ might make some sense. In the independent territory of Hong Kong, millions have protested against the right of the Chinese government to extradite criminals from the independent territory to China. They argue that the word ‘independent’ means that criminals will be tried in Hong Kong under the prevailing law there and not under Chinese law. China disagreed and the demonstrations to have the Extradition Bill cancelled continue.
Ten years ago 
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