[01] Turks kill Greek Cypriot refugee man
[02] Cyprus to protest new killing by Turkish soldiers
[03] Euro-MPs denounce murder by Turks
[04] Turkish soldiers kill Greek Cypriot with three bullets
[05] EP deals heavy blow to Turkey by freezing aid
[01] Turks kill Greek Cypriot refugee
man
Nicosia, Oct 13 (CNA) -- The Turkish occupation troops shot and killed this morning a Greek Cypriot refugee man in the Achna area, near the British military base of Dhekelia, in the southeastern part of this East Mediterranean island.
A Cyprus Police spokesman CNA identified the man as Petros Kakoulli, aged 50, a refugee from the Turkish-occupied village of Lefkoniko, who was staying at Avgorou village.
Police told CNA that Kakoulli had gone to Achna area, near the Turkish cease-fire line, together with his son-in-law to collect snails.
The incident took place at 0735 local time (0435 GMT).
[02] Cyprus to protest new killing
by Turkish soldiers
Nicosia, Oct 13 1996 (CNA) -- The Cyprus government will protest to the United Nations, other international organisations and foreign governments about the new cold-blooded murder of a Greek Cypriot refugee by the Turkish occupation troops.
Turkish soldiers shot and killed this morning Petros Kakoulli, 58, a retired fireman and a refugee from the Turkish-occupied village of Lefkoniko, who was staying at Avgorou village, in the southeastern part of the island.
The incident took place in the Achna area, near the British sovereign military base of Dhekelia, at around 0730 local time (0430 GMT).
Kakoulli was collecting snails with his son-in-law, Panikos Hadjiathanasiou, 27.
Hadjiathanasiou told the Police that he saw his father-in-law standing with his hands up. Two Turkish soldiers shot him twice and then walked closer to him and finished him off with another shot.
The Turks claimed that Kakoulli had crossed into the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus, north of the Turkish cease-fire line. The Turkish soldiers refused to hand over the body to an ambulance of the British bases, which had rushed to the area.
The Turks did not allow representatives of the Cypriot authorities, or the UN and the British bases, to visit the area and inspect the body.
Instead, the Turks took the body away before allowing representatives of the UN and the British bases to go to the area, on the boundaries of the British bases.
In the area, there is an unmanned UN observation post. After the incident UN peacekeepers went to the area. At the same time, the Turks increased their armed guards, who have taken positions.
The Cypriot authorities have asked the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) to mediate for the return of the body.
Cyprus Government Spokesman Yiannakis Cassoulides said the government will protest to the UN, other international organisations and foreign governments about the "totally unjustified act" by the Turkish occupation troops.
Meanwhile, former Cyprus President Spyros Kyprianou, President of the House of Representatives, has urged Greek Cypriots taking part in an anti-occupation protest march today to stay calm.
Thousands of refugees are taking part in a march from Astromeritis village, west of Nicosia, on the road leading to their home-town Morphou, in the north-eastern part of the island.
The House President briefed foreign MPs and guests taking part in the Morphou march about the new Turkish provocative act.
Cyprus police and the UNFICYP have taken strict security measures near the UN-controlled buffer zone at Astromeritis to prevent marchers entering the no-man's land.
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash threatened that his illegal regime would arrest anybody, who would try to cross into the occupied territory.
In July, Turkish soldiers shot and killed an unarmed National Guardsman in the UN buffer zone in Nicosia.
In August, the Turkish occupation troops and extremists, who had come in from Turkey, brutally murdered two Greek Cypriot youths taking part in peaceful anti-occupation demonstrations.
Tasos Isaac, 24, was savagely beaten to death on August 11, and Solomos Solomou was shot and killed by Turkish soldiers and secret agents on August 14.
On September 8, a Turkish soldier of Kurdish origin, was found dead in his observation post in the Aheritou area.
Turkish troops have been occupying 37 per cent of Cyprus territory since 1974, in violation of repeated UN resolutions calling for their withdrawal.
[03] Euro-MPs denounce murder by
Turks
Nicosia, Oct 13 (CNA) -- Euro-MPs strongly condemned the new murder of a Greek Cypriot man by the Turkish occupation troops.
Turkish soldiers shot and killed this morning Petros Kakoulli, 58, a retired fireman from the Turkish-occupied village of Lefkoniko.
Kakoulli was collecting snails in the area of Achna, near the British Base Area of Dhekelia, with his 27-year-old son-in-law Panikos Hadjiathanasiou, when the Turkish soldiers killed him.
Hadjiathanasiou told the police that he saw his father-in-law standing with his hands up. Two Turkish soldiers shot him twice and then walked closer to him and finished him off with another shot.
Cyprus police announced that according to information from the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) the Turks had taken the body to a hospital in the Turkish-occupied town of Famagusta.
The Turks will hand over the body to UNFICYP tomorrow to be returned to the Cypriot authorities.
Cyprus Police Chief Panikos Hadjiloizou and other senior police officers went to the British Base Area of Dhekelia and met with British Bases Police officers.
British Labour Euro-MP Pauline Green, Leader of the Socialist group in the European Parliament, said the new murder "reinforces the horror of an island of this size divided in this way."
She said it demonstrates that "we have to resolve this problem. It is now becoming more and more of a flashpoint."
The leader of the largest political group in the Euro-Parliament said the international community "must respond with the firmer pressure on Turkey to solve the dreadful problem."
Dutch Euro-MP Jan Willem Bertens said it was "a premeditated murder, done on purpose to show there is no chance for peace. But we will fight back peacefully for the reunification of the island."
Both Euro-MPs said the new murder by the Turks strengthens their determination to refuse all EU funds for Turkey.
Greek Euro-MP Alexandros Alavanos strongly denounced the new Turkish provocative act and said the matter would be raised in the European Parliament.
The three Euro-MPs took part earlier today in an anti-occupation march with the participation of thousands of refugees from the Turkish-occupied town of Morphou, in the north-western part of the island.
Turkish troops have been occupying 37 per cent of Cyprus territory since 1974, in violation of repeated UN resolutions calling for their withdrawal.
The Cypriot and Greek governments have strongly condemned the brutal murder.
The Foreign Ministries of the two countries coordinate their efforts to protest to the United Nations, other international organisations and foreign governments.
At the same time, the Ministers of Defence of the two countries, Costas Eliades of Cyprus and Akis Tsohatzopoulos of Greece, are in constant touch about the matter.
[04] Turkish soldiers kill Greek
Cypriot with three bullets
Larnaca, Oct 14 (CNA) -- A 58-year-old Greek Cypriot, Petros Kakoullis, who was shot and killed yesterday by the Turkish occupation troops, received three bullets, two on the chest and one on the neck.
According to coroner Petros Vanezis, who carried out a three-hour post mortem examination on the body this evening, the first two bullets hit Kakoullis on the chest and on the neck.
The lethal third bullet hit Kakoullis on the chest, he said.
The coroner declined to give more details.
The body was handed over to the Cypriot authorities earlier today through the UN.
According to Kakoullis' son-in-law Panikos Hadjiathanasiou, 27, who was collecting snails with him, two Turkish soldiers shot his father-in-law twice while he was standing with his hands up.
The Turkish soldiers walked towards him and from a close range they shot him again, finishing him off.
The new murder of a Greek Cypriot man, the fourth in four months by the Turks, took place near the British Base Area of Dhekelia, in the south-eastern part of the island, adjacent to the Turkish-occupied territory.
[05] EP deals heavy blow to Turkey
by freezing aid
Strasbourg, 25/10/1996 (ANA - F. Stangos)
Turkey received its biggest blow ever yesterday from the European Parliament (EP) when the latter voted in a number of resolutions to freeze millions of dollars of aid to Ankara, and accused it of provocative actions in Cyprus, the Aegean, aggression in northern Iraq, and violation of human rights.
In a resolution, following the first reading of the 1997 budget, the European Parliament transferred to the reserves a total of 95 million ECU, originally planned for disbursement in the framework of Turkey's customs union agreement with the EU, and de signed to help that country develop its infrastructure and modernize its agricultural sector. The amount had been part of a 375 million ECUs ($470 million) sum set aside by the EU for the period between 1996 and 2000, through the special regulation for financial co-operation.
EP noted in the resolution that the disbursement of these credits was linked to respect, on the part of Ankara, for democratic principles and the rules of international law.
"Significant progress in the political resolution of the Kurdish and Cyprus problems must be recorded," the resolution added.
EP approved the customs union last December after Ankara had provided explicit guarantees it would take positive action on human rights, democratization, and the Kurdish and Cyprus problems.
With an overwhelming majority (423 in favor, 23 against, and 7 abstentions), the EP plenum also adopted in the first budget reading, the provision relating to credits envisaged through the Mediterranean Assistance (MEDA) program, stipulating that plans concerning Turkey will only be executed if approved by the Parliament.
It determined that during disbursement of MEDA credits, the European Commission "will submit the programs to the European Parliament, which must give its approval".
The resolution regarding MEDA elicited a strong reaction from External Affairs Commissioner Hans van den Broek, who dismissed it, accusing EP of " abusive" exercise of its rights, and stressing that MEDA was a comprehensive program that could not be "customized" for particular purposes, and that underdevelopment in many parts of Turkey was not unrelated to human rights abuses.
In another two resolutions, also adopted with an overwhelming majority, EP condemned the recent killing by Turkish troops of an unarmed Greek Cypriot near the dividing line on the island, and the bombing attack against the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch ate in Istanbul on September 30.
The first of the two resolutions pointed out that "the victim was the fourth Greek Cypriot murdered without reason (this year), which reveals the real intentions of certain extremist circles to create the false impression that the peaceful coexistence of the two communities on Cyprus is impossible," and that "this totally unjustifiable act took place in an area controlled by the British military base of Dekeleia".
It also called on all European Union member states to exert pressure on Turkey to withdraw its forces from the island.
The second resolution also expressed its concern over the climate created by recent statements by the Turkish minister to the prime minister's office, regarding the conversion of the Byzantine church of Agia Sophia into a mosque, and pointing out that in Turkey Christian religious monuments and cemeteries very often become targets of vandalism.