Zano Tyrannis

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Joined May 2009

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Harry Theocharous

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9 days ago

A SHIP SINKS IN OCCUPIED CYPRUS, PEOPLE DIE. TURKEY’S REPS TELL THE LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE ISLAND ITS HELP IS NOT ACCEPTED🚨 Earlier today a passenger ferry left occupied Kyrenia for Mersin with about 267 people on board. Within minutes it took on water and capsized, leaving at least seven people dead and dozens still missing. Survivors clung to an overturned hull while the wreck went down to the seabed a couple of hundreds of meters deep. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of the Republic of Cyprus, the only internationally recognised state on this island and the only lawful SAR authority for these waters, received the emergency and offered immediate help. President Christodoulides instructed contact with Turkey’s representative in occupied Cyprus Tufan Erhurman & co for every available Cypriot asset that could be used but instead accepting help, the occupying side’s answer was that they “do not need the assistance.” If you don’t know what the Cyprus problem is all about, this should enlighten you. Occupied Cyprus, a territory held by Turkey since the 1974 invasion is an illegal regime that Turkey alone recognises. The occupied coast where Ankara’s forces, not the government of the Republic of Cyprus, decide who is allowed to save lives and who’s not. Turkey doesn’t want to accept that the legitimate authorities of the island, an EU member state, have the right and the duty to act in a maritime disaster off Kyrenia which belongs to the Republic of Cyprus. It’s politics first for Turkey and human beings come second, that’s exactly how illegal occupation works. Mainstream media must stop laundering this by reporting that this happened in “northern Cyprus” or treat Erhurman’s illegal administration as a normal government, hiding the fact that the lawful search and rescue system of the island was blocked by the occupying power and its local representatives like himself. Say it clearly @Reuters, @BBC, @AFP and many others, this tragedy happened in occupied Cyprus and Turkey prevents the Republic of Cyprus from exercising its authority even when people are drowning. Days ago @tufanerhurman was writing letters to the UN, the EU and @FCBarcelona over a cancelled football camp but today people are missing at sea and the same structure that answers to Turkey refuses Cypriot rescue assets. Grievance politics is not a reason to turn away help, neither is the fiction of a second state on this island. The Republic of Cyprus is the sole sovereign authority of the whole island. Turkey occupies part of it, partitions its air and sea space and in a crisis still decides who will help. This is an illegal occupation that now has a body count attached to a Sunday ferry. To all mainstream media and independent journalists: Name the place - occupied Cyprus Name the occupation - Turkish occupation Name who blocked the rescuers - Turkey

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