AKEL
denounces today’s attacks by extreme nationalist forces against the
“Afrika” newspaper in the occupied areas. The moral perpetrator
of the attacks is the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan himself, whose
recent references in Bursa bluntly targeted the newspaper “Afrika”.
As
AKEL, we express our solidarity with Sener Levent and the newspaper
“Afrika”, which is once again being targeted because it dared to
refer to Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus on the occasion of Turkey’s
ongoing invasion of Syria’s Arfin region.
Behind
the demonstrations with an aggressive character appear to be mainly
settlers who are aligned to the Justice and Development Party (AKP),
as well as several ultra-right elements. We express our solidarity
with the Turkish Cypriot progressive forces that oppose these
attacks, but also stand against the invasion of Syria.
In
general, these events further highlight yet another way by which
Ankara is trying to further impose itself on the Turkish Cypriot
community and transfer its internal problems to Cyprus and in doing
so consequently reaffirming that only the solution of the Cyprus
problem can free the Cypriot people as a whole from every kind of
intervention by Turkey in Cyprus.
