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Anyone care to drive out there and take a picture if this is happening. If so, it should be more widely publicised.

I just emailed a friend in Nicosia and asked... Should have the answer tomorrow I guess.

[Michael Coumas]

It may be that like many newspapers around the world the only things printed that one can believe are i) The price, and possibly ii) The date.
If that is not the case then a decision has been made for announcement sometime in the future and the posturing is begining. What better than to build a dividing wall then "as an act of good faith" demolish it.

[RAFAELLA]

At a time when the walls are being demolished in the world, a new wall is being erected in the centre of Lefkosia.

Yeah, right!! Israel????

Bravo! very good example you gave Turkey((*.
You remember the reaction regarding the wall in Israel?
So you want the situation to become like in Israel? Bomb attacks ect?

Since you mention Israel though, just to let you know that settlers are called to leave, abandon the palestinian territories, whose turn is next?

PS. the sentence you mentioned, it doesn't come from me but from Africa's article

[demetriou_74]

i been searchng for answers but found nothing. can somebody close the matter???

[MicAtCyp]

MOVED from identical Thread subject to here:

Turkey is displaying tension the wrong way by erecting a wall. The superpower that she is, is constantly running into dead-ends making the TRNC legal. But this is ridiculous. What if the GC wait another 30 something years to give in, the wall wouldn't benefit the TRNC at all. What if GC's close the border as well, is that beneficial? TC's I think are happy with this idea. But know the repercussions for you and your kids. Personally I think they'll never be peace between both communities. Their just as stubborn as each other but they'll tell you otherwise and point fingers at one another. Peace is a beautiful, priceless gift but either side is willing. Negotiations wont get far if things took this long, and still no solution. I say build the wall but no benefits for TRNC......never... I'm for that.

[cannedmoose]

Article from today's Cyprus Mail about 'the wall'

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Mystery of the Green Line wall
By Jean Christou

THE TURKISH Cypriot side yesterday denied reports that they were building a two-metre wall stretching from the Ledra Palace Turkish gateway to the Ayios Dhometios checkpoint.

UNFICYP said yesterday it was aware of the reports and was looking into it.

Turkish Cypriot newspaper Afrika, under the headline ‘Here is our new wall’, said that while walls were being demolished all over the world, a new wall was being erected in the centre of Nicosia.

“While for a period of 31 years from 1974 to today the Command of the Security Forces did not feel the need to build a wall, in the last days a wall more than two metres high has started to be built. According to information obtained by our paper, the wall, which will extend to a few kilometres, has started in the area which is under the control of the 3rd Turkish Battalion and is being constructed with yellow stone.”

It said the wall was begun a short distance from the British High Commission and that it might be extended to the Ayios Dhometios check-point.

Although a Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ spokesman yesterday denied knowledge of any such wall, Turkish military sources told the Cyprus Mail a wall was being constructed, but only for an adjacent army camp. “It’s not a Berlin Wall or an Israeli Wall,” the sources said. “It is not designed to keep people out.”

The sources, however, did not say how high or how long the wall would be.

Diplomatic sources said they recalled recent reports in the Turkish press about a clean-up and beautifying project to be conducted in the area in question.

Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said yesterday he had no knowledge of the wall. “If however such a wall is erected I consider it to be yet another illegality aimed at aiding further partition,” he said.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2005

[gabaston]

that wall was built by the gc's in 63 , they are just putting an extension on it now. maybe they can add a few hanging baskets with some flowers.........

[magikthrill]

that wall was built by the gc's in 63 , they are just putting an extension on it now. maybe they can add a few hanging baskets with some flowers.........

again the wife-beater's argument. i seem to see it alot from TCs. is this how you were taught perhaps?

[Turkey (( *]

At a time when the walls are being demolished in the world, a new wall is being erected in the centre of Lefkosia.

Yeah, right!! Israel????

Bravo! very good example you gave Turkey((*.
You remember the reaction regarding the wall in Israel?
So you want the situation to become like in Israel? Bomb attacks ect?

Since you mention Israel though, just to let you know that settlers are called to leave, abandon the palestinian territories, whose turn is next?

PS. the sentence you mentioned, it doesn't come from me but from Africa's article

Tell me where all those soldiers and people are going to go?? They are not going to create new land for them, they have to be fitted somewhere!! So the answer will be Palestenian territory again, no??

[RAFAELLA]

At a time when the walls are being demolished in the world, a new wall is being erected in the centre of Lefkosia.

Yeah, right!! Israel????

Bravo! very good example you gave Turkey((*.
You remember the reaction regarding the wall in Israel?
So you want the situation to become like in Israel? Bomb attacks ect?

Since you mention Israel though, just to let you know that settlers are called to leave, abandon the palestinian territories, whose turn is next?

PS. the sentence you mentioned, it doesn't come from me but from Africa's article

Tell me where all those soldiers and people are going to go?? They are not going to create new land for them, they have to be fitted somewhere!! So the answer will be Palestenian territory again, no??

I've called Sharon to ask him, no answer

Anyway, since they are settlers they have no right to use Palestinian territories. They should take them back to where they came from, they didn't just come out of space and landed on the Palestinian territories, did they?