WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND YOUR SOLIDARITY!

Because of the 37th anniversary of Turkey’s military invasion on 20th July 1974, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Cyprus.

In order to protest the Turkish Republic authorities’ policies of changing the demographic, social and cultural structure of the Turkish Cypriots, people gathered together in order to make a peaceful demonstration and faced with the terror of the police. Police forces entered KTAMS building by force with the excuse of search warrant and they confiscated the pancards which protested Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Resisting this, KTAMS Organization Secretary Mr. Devrim Barcin and BES General Secretary Mrs. Ayca Soygur Cirali were arrested.

Later on, the police fiercly attacked people who were waiting on the venue of the Prime Minister of Turkey, in order to make their demonstration.

Moreover, at the “boykott tent” of the Cyprus Turkish Airlines, people again, gathered to make their peaceful demonstrations and during their meeting, the police made another brutal attack on the demonstrators accusing another pancard. KTAMS President Mr. Ahmet Kaptan, KTOEOS General Secretary Mehmet Tasker, ELSEN Administrative Board member Hasan Guneser, as well as many other demonstrators were brutally beated. In addition, Salih Batak, Şevki Yoldaş, Nevzat Hami, Bülent Kurt, Mustafa Keleşzade and Ahmet Cenkler were arrested by the police. During the darkness of night, a pancard on the wall of the building of KTOS were taken away by the police.

This fierce and brutal attack of the police on 19th of July 2011 will be a “black day” in history। We protest these incidents and call upon to have solidarity and support in order for the Turkish Cypriots to continue their honorable struggle despite pressure and violence. We urgently need your support and solidarity.

Best Regards

Güven Varoglu

KTOS

President