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by Uzay Bulut • August 26, 2018 at
5:00 am
- "The atrocities
of the Turkish army included wholesale and repeated rapes of
women of all ages, systematic torture, savage and humiliating
treatment of hundreds of people, including children, women and
pensioners during their detention by the Turkish forces, as well
as looting and robbery on an extensive scale, by Turkish troops
and Turkish Cypriots." — The Cyprus Federation of America.
- "You are hostile.
Hostile to everything that is good, beautiful and right... You
are not protesters, you are terrorists. You hit, broke,
destroyed and attempted to murder us. You call that a protest?
You are like the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi, Boko Haram in
Nigeria, and jihadist marauders who carry out beheadings in
Syria." — Şener Levent, the editor-in-chief of the
Turkish-language daily newspaper Afrika in Cyprus, who is
being tried by Turkey for two articles he recently wrote.
- In an attempt to
change the demographic structure of the area, thousands of
illegal settlers have been brought from Turkey to the occupied
part and around 43,000 Turkish occupation troops have been
stationed there.
- Turkey does not want
any of its crimes against the island to be exposed --
particularly by Turkish Cypriots. It appears that what is once
again being targeted in these lawsuits against Afrika is
not only Levent's courageous journalism but also the freedom and
sovereignty of Cyprus.
Cyprus'
capital of Nicosia is divided by a UN-patrolled demilitarized
"buffer zone," between a free, southern section, and a
northern section occupied by Turkey's army. (Image source:
Jpatokal/Wikimedia Commons)
A veteran journalist in Europe's last divided city,
Nicosia, has been targeted and intimidated by Turkey's President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan for criticizing Turkey's actions in Cyprus and
elsewhere in the region.
Şener Levent, editor-in-chief of the Turkish-language
daily newspaper, Afrika, in Cyprus, has been charged with
crimes by Turkish prosecutors in Ankara. The charges concern the
January 21 front page of the newspaper, which criticized Turkey's
invasion of the Syrian city of Afrin as well as an article by Levent
about a violent mob action against his newspaper on January 22.
Afrika,
which has a left-wing political stance, is located in the occupied
northern section of Nicosia and covers news related to Cyprus, Turkey
and the wider region. The initial version of Afrika was the
newspaper Avrupa ("Europe"), established in 1997 and
printed for 4 years before Afrika replaced it.
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