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• General Chat :: RE: Yialousa's take on South Park characters on the Forum!

  Author: Paphitis Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:02 am (GMT 2) Svetlana wrote: Yialoser 007 - Licensed to grill.... You could delete him from the forum completely.... How nice would that be? Then again, we won't have anyone to laugh at! _________________ Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable.... - 4 hours ago

• General Chat :: RE: Paphos - new airport, same old sh*t

  Author: Paphitis Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:56 am (GMT 2) Milo wrote: You living at the wrong end of the island thats all!! Try the new Larnaca Airport! Its a 'real' airport Although 'politics' is keeping the Paphos airport going I woud be surprised if it can afford to keep going for long unless they reduce the landing fees more for there than Larnaca (Govt is reducing them by a quarter) can,t see the need for Paphos anymore, the new international airport can easily deal with more han twice the number of passengers and its hoped to become a 'transitional' airport in the future. Larnaca Airport only has one runway, and from time to time, it may be necessary to shut this runway down for repairs or works, weather, or because another aircraft needs to be removed. Therefore, Paphos makes an excellent alternate aerodrome for all inbound traffic to Larnaca and vice versa. Milo wrote: Quote: Chatting to the operational readiness manager at Larnaca(Canadian) he expected that the old airport will not be used again btw and hopefully demolished. Plans for hotels etc for future business customers to the Middle East. Some airlines are planning to site themselves there IF landing fees are brought down inline with the rest of Europe. It all comes down to capital expenditure and as I understand it, the Paphos and Larnaca Airports cost a massive amount of money to develop and so the Airport Operators will be looking for an adequate return of investment. Landing fees will not result in other major airline situating their headquarters in Larnaca, because Larnaca is not considered a major gateway or transit port. Perhaps you meant to say that other airlines will operate into Larnaca. If that is the case, then all companies that really do want to operate through Larnaca will do so, and pass on all costs (including landing and handling fees) to the consumer. Milo wrote: Quote: I hope that its the start of many new bright things for Cyprus and the tourism industry. Both airports are a step in the right direction. _________________ Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable.... - 4 hours ago

• Classifieds :: RE: mercedes amg 300

  Author: nurse79 Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:51 am (GMT 2) the only thing fake around here is you and your attitude all the paperwork of the car are available to anyone which car industry is that ,the corner garage I guess I dare you to come and see the car and take back all this stupid things you are saying . But I know you will not call you will not show up cause your a 30 year old chicken shit!!!! my phone is 99718608 I live in Paralimni Please do not worry I am not going to bit U up if you decide to show your miserable self!!!!!! LOL _________________ Wha..Wha... I said boy!!! - 4 hours ago

• Cyprus Problem :: RE: The British Memorial

  Author: Paphitis Subject: Re: The British Memorial Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:34 am (GMT 2) Dumblonde wrote: Well my post really got you going didn't it. And Get Real, I find your language, use of the F-Word appalling. What the heck is the Moderator doing here? You'll be pleased to know this LADY is going to take herself off this forum because it seems one can't have a decent debate, just a tirade from bitter and twisted people who can't see the mess they are in was self-inflicted. Kalinikta, Adio, Yassas. What a shame. I was looking forward to a good healthy debate with you, so I could perhaps highlight your arrogance in rubbing your monument in the "trnc" in our faces as if to denote your defacto recognition of the occupation regime. Instead of having an arrogant and pompous attitude, only Brits are renowned for, you could have taken a much more respectable approach by only having normal headstones at the graves, since that is where they are buried, and then negotiate with the RoC Government to build a dignified memorial in the unoccupied territories where an Armistice Day ceremony can take place along with official RoC attendance. Perhaps a combined British and Cypriot memorial could have been possible.... You have disrespected your own dead, and their families, by doing this, and once again this is a very sad reflection on you and all those involved with this very politicised "memorial". Kalinihta.... _________________ Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable.... - 4 hours ago

• General Chat :: RE: Paphos - new airport, same old sh*t

  Author: Milo Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:30 am (GMT 2) You living at the wrong end of the island thats all!! Try the new Larnaca Airport! Its a 'real' airport Although 'politics' is keeping the Paphos airport going I woud be surprised if it can afford to keep going for long unless they reduce the landing fees more for there than Larnaca (Govt is reducing them by a quarter) can,t see the need for Paphos anymore, the new international airport can easily deal with more han twice the number of passengers and its hoped to become a 'transitional' airport in the future. Chatting to the operational readiness manager at Larnaca(Canadian) he expected that the old airport will not be used again btw and hopefully demolished. Plans for hotels etc for future business customers to the Middle East. Some airlines are planning to site themselves there IF landing fees are brought down inline with the rest of Europe. I hope that its the start of many new bright things for Cyprus and the tourism industry. I am taking someone for a Sleazyjet flight on Tuesday would never go with them myself Cyprus Airways are the best, just a silly price. Well done and good luck to the new airport Worst airport I have ever encountered has to be at Montego Bay Jamaica was offered drugs twice in ten minutes of retreiving my suitcase Best airport so far.......was Orlando......I know, I know, but it was J'Burg was by far the scariest to get out of. http://dutchbusinesscyprus.com/albumsphp/auto_load.php?album=29&css=yme.css - 4 hours ago

• Cyprus Problem :: FinTimes: Leaders wrestle to break island’s bitter deadlock

  Author: james_mav Subject: FinTimes: Leaders wrestle to break island’s bitter deadlock Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:25 am (GMT 2) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/969f2f8c-caf4-11de-97e0-00144feabdc0.html Quote: Leaders wrestle to break island’s bitter deadlock By Kerin Hope Published: November 9 2009 00:16 | Last updated: November 9 2009 00:16 Few outside observers still have doubts about the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders’ commitment to ending the island’s 35-year division. After 14 months of regular meetings, their blue-upholstered armchairs at the United Nations “good offices” mission outside Nicosia have acquired a comfortable, well-worn look. Demetris Christofias and Mehmet Ali Talat are well-qualified negotiators, with a shared trade union background and sufficient language skills to argue the details of a peace settlement in English. Self-interest also plays a role. If a deal on setting up a bizonal, bicommunal federation is reached, Mr Christofias and Mr Talat would almost certainly be the first to hold the rotating presidency of a reunified Cyprus. If not, both men are likely to be punished by voters and replaced by hardline nationalists who might opt for a permanent partition of the island. Yet the UN-sponsored talks are dragging. Last week Mr Christofias admitted that the leaders were not yet ready to discuss in depth the issue of property, which, together with territory and security, lies at the core of a settlement. “This is a comprehensive and difficult issue and they will go on working,” says Alexander Downer, former foreign minister of Australia and UN special adviser to the negotiations. Though Nicosia-based diplomats try to avoid talk of deadlines and last chances, Mr Talat is already feeling the heat. His leftwing Republican Turkish Party was defeated last April at a parliamentary election in the north by Dervis Eroglou, whose National Unity Party favours a two-state solution. Without at least a framework deal in place, Mr Talat’s chances of winning a second presidential term in the April poll look increasingly slim. Public opinion in the north, once overwhelmingly in favour of reunification – and access to the benefits of European Union membership – is hardening. “The talks don’t have a positive image and people aren’t very hopeful,” says Emine Erk, a Turkish Cypriot human rights lawyer. “There seems to be a zero-sum attitude, that you’re only happy with the talks if the other side is giving ground.” Mr Christofias in turn faces pressure from “rejectionists” in the Greek Cypriot south, including influential media barons and members of the centrist Democratic party, which is the junior partner in his communist-led coalition government. While communist discipline still appears strict, some analysts doubt whether Mr Christofias has the full support of his party on reunification. However, the election victory of George Papandreou’s Socialist party in Greece has given the island’s pro-settlement politicians a welcome boost. Mr Papandreou intends to rebuild the close relationship with Turkey he established as foreign minister 10 years ago. “We have to revive a dynamism that will not only help Turkey on its course towards Europe but contribute to a solution of the Cyprus issue,” he said during a visit to Nicosia. Next month’s EU summit, at which the bloc’s 27 heads of government are due to assess Turkish progress, will test the resolve of both Mr Papandreou and Mr Christofias. They hope that Turkey will inject fresh momentum into the Cyprus talks, as well as its own bid for accession, by agreeing to open one of its ports to Greek Cypriot traffic. But if not, Mr Christofias has implicitly ruled out using a veto against Ankara, saying: “Our intention is not to punish Turkey.” Many Greek Cypriots are uncertain about the benefits of signing up to a federal state that they would have to finance in its early years, as Turkish Cypriot per capita income is about half that of the south. Greek Cypriots have avoided fostering cross-border relationships because of a widely held view that any form of bicommunal contact – from schoolchildren exchanging visits to football matches against teams from the north – implies “recognition” of the self-proclaimed Turkish Cypriot republic in the north. The issue of “recognition” also places constraints on trade across the Green Line, the unofficial border between north and south, which has been developing gradually under an EU umbrella. Most Turkish Cypriot products are still shipped to Turkey for export, while goods purchased by Greek Cypriots are generally transported in bulk and packaged in the south for sale locally. “When Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 we were promised direct trade with the Union. That hasn’t happened,” says Oya Barcin, head of trade development at the Turkish Cypriot chamber of commerce. Both sides of the island are feeling the impact of the global slowdown, following a collapse in the holiday property market and a sharp decline in tourist arrivals this year. Greek Cypriot unemployment has reached 5.5 per cent, the highest rate since 1974. Turkish Cypriots have also lost jobs in the construction sector in the south. A weak recovery is forecast for the south, while the isolated economy in the north faces continuing stagnation. Studies indicate that reunification would bring sustained growth in tourism and business services, the pillars of the Greek Cypriot economy. Higher education, which underpins the Turkish Cypriot economy and is expanding in the south, would become a growth sector, while the north’s mass tourism market would quickly be upgraded. “There would obviously be the short-term costs of economic adjustment, but the medium-term prospects, with Greek Cypriot companies gaining access to the large Turkish market, would be very exciting,” says Charilaos Stavrakis, Greek Cypriot finance minister. Settling issues of property and territory would unlock domestic investment and allow a federal Cyprus to develop a long-term strategy for attracting foreign investment, according to UN advisers. As a result of the island’s frozen conflict, ownership of property worth an estimated €20bn – mainly in the north – remains in dispute. One arresting example is the derelict resort of Varosha outside Famagusta – a popular Mediterranean playground in the 1960s – with crumbling high-rise hotels surrounded by barbed wire. “Just the rebuilding of Famagusta as a high-quality resort would make the whole island more prosperous for years to come,” says Symeon Kassianides, a Greek Cypriot businessman. But so far neither Mr Talat nor Mr Christofias has tried to put forward a vision of a prosperous, reunited Cyprus offering a wealth of opportunity to both communities. _________________ ~ ΕΛΛΑΣ-ΚΥΠΡΟΣ-ΕΝΩΣΙΣ ~ - 4 hours ago

• Cyprus Problem :: Financial Times: Turkish influx tests balance

  Author: james_mav Subject: Financial Times: Turkish influx tests balance Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:22 am (GMT 2) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e9f0f436-c577-11de-8193-00144feab49a.html Quote: Turkish influx tests balance Published: November 8 2009 23:14 | Last updated: November 8 2009 23:14 An evening scene in north Nicosia during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, with Red Crescent volunteers handing out the iftar meal that breaks the daily fast to a queue of shabbily dressed men, highlights social change in the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Most of those waiting in line were economic migrants from south-east Anatolia. More religiously and socially conservative than Turkish Cypriots, they are conspicuous on the streets of north Nicosia, because of their large families and their traditional village style of dress. The migrants rent space in the dilapidated Ottoman mansions of Nicosia’s old city. Formerly grand Turkish Cypriot residences, they are now semi-derelict, their owners having moved to modern homes in the suburbs. Greek Cypriot authorities call the immigration from Turkey a deliberate attempt at “massive colonisation” – a process that they claim is intended to change the demographic composition and “Turkify” north Cyprus, making reunification harder to achieve. Turks have been settling in northern Cyprus since 1974 when immigrants from Anatolia were encouraged to come and work land abandoned by Greek Cypriots fleeing the invading Turkish army. The trend has continued intermittently since. The precise number of Turkish migrants living and working in northern Cyprus is hotly contested, but figures indicate there are now slightly more “Turkish-origin people” – as they are officially known – living in north Cyprus than indigenous Turkish Cypriots in a permanent population of around 250,000. The immigrant community is both ethnically and religiously diverse. Members of the Alevi sect, for example, who arrived in the first wave of immigration, have integrated successfully into secular, westernised Turkish Cypriot society and prospered. Tekin Soylemez, an Alevi lawyer, settled in Cyprus after meeting his Turkish Cypriot wife at university, but says it took time to be accepted. “To be from Turkey was difficult. I am also a Kurd, so that was really difficult,” he says. “And it was quite a long time before I was brave enough to say I was an Alevi.” The most recent wave of Turkish immigration started in 2003, triggered by the opening of the Green Line, the unofficial border that divides Cyprus. Amid a construction boom on both sides of the island, Turkish workers arrived to replace Turkish Cypriots who crossed the Green Line daily to work at higher-paid jobs in the south. The governing left-wing Republican Turkish Party, which wanted to introduce European-style labour practices, provided free education and healthcare to more than 30,000 immigrant workers who registered with their Turkish Cypriot employers, and their families. The move has put a severe strain on public finances and medical facilities in the north, according to Hassan Gungor, an economist. “It became common for people to wait six hours to see a doctor at the state hospital, or even wait all day and go home without getting medical attention,” Mr Gungor says. Some Turkish Cypriots believe their identity is under threat. Murat Kanatle, general secretary of the New Cyprus party, says that, despite linguistic and religious differences and despite sporadic communal violence, the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities “have more in common with each other than with these people from Anatolia”. But the Turkish Cypriot authorities brush aside ethnic and religious distinctions in the north. Immigration from Turkey had nothing to do with politics, according to Aytug Plumer, a senior official. “Turks and Turkish Cypriots are all part of the Turkish nation. There are no cultural differences, and these people have integrated well,” Mr Plumer says. Sevgi Tarhan, who campaigns for gender equality among mainland Turkish communities in northern Cyprus, takes a different view. A Turk who came to live in Cyprus after marrying a Turkish Cypriot, she works mostly in remote parts of the north among isolated migrant communities where pressure to conform to family and social traditions is strongest. “One family will try to improve things for the daughters, allow them to get a job in the city, for example. Then the neighbours will come round and tell them they are letting down the reputation of people from Adana or wherever it is they come from,” Mrs Tarhan says. The future of the Turkish immigrants is among the most sensitive issues facing Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders in the reunification talks. Many Greek Cypriots who abandoned homes in the north in 1974 believe their chances of recovering property will be reduced unless some migrants are required to leave the island under the terms of a peace settlement. Umit Alkan, a pastry chef at a Kyrenia hotel, moved to Cyprus 30 years ago from Kars in eastern Turkey. His children and grandchildren were born on the island, yet he is willing to leave if the current talks produce a settlement that requires his repatriation. “I will go back, I don’t want to be a problem,” he says. But many Greek and Turkish Cypriots see Mr Alkan as an exception. _________________ ~ ΕΛΛΑΣ-ΚΥΠΡΟΣ-ΕΝΩΣΙΣ ~ - 4 hours ago

• Classifieds :: 1 Bed Room Apartment for Rent in Limassol

  Author: Bad Boy Subject: 1 Bed Room Apartment for Rent in Limassol Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:20 am (GMT 2) 1 Bedroom furnished Apartment is available for rent. Specs: Near Petro-Pavlou Church. Ground Floor Apartment Full furnished Excellent Condition. Parking Air Conditioner and Central Heating Water & Electricity is including in RENT TV With Sattelite (Hotbird) Cablenet is installed (only you will have to change the name to activate it) RENT is 350. Call: 96586796 - 4 hours ago