Diabolical amount of Compensation for the the Turkish Cypriot Tortured by the police of the Illegal Greek Cypriot Regime.

While the tension created by the illegal abduction of Omer Tekoglu, a Turkish Cypriot from the mixed village of Pyla, by the Greek Cypriot police is continuing, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against the illegal Greek Cypriot regime in another abduction case that took place in 1995.

Erkan Egilmez, a Turkish Cypriot was abducted by the Greek Cypriot police while he was working in his field on 7 October 1995, he was kept in jail for almost two months under terrible conditions and was badly tortured by the Greek Cypriot police.

During the time Egilmez were kept by the Greek Cypriot regime he was beaten up every day. His ears, back and soles of his feet were slashed.

Egilmez was taken to hospital because of his injures caused by torture, but hospital staff reported that he was again beaten up by the Greek Cypriot police while he was there.

Some of the horrific details of the treatment of Egilmez have been published in an article by Cyprus Mail, a Greek Cypriot newspaper, on 23 December 2000. To see the full article click on the links below.

The treatment of Egilmez and the other incidents in the past, where the Greek Cypriot regime forced 22 Turkish Cypriots living in south Cyprus to go to Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) through minefields, is worrying the family of Omer Tekoglu, who was abducted on 2 December 2000, they are worried that he could also face abuse and torture at the hands of the Greek Cypriot police.

Apart from the £10,400 compensation imposed on the Greek Cypriot regime by the ECHR in the Egilmez case, this case is important from the point of view that, the behaviour of the Greek Cypriot regime proves that the Turkish Cypriots cannot get just treatment from the Greek Cypriot courts.

The latest revelations in the Greek Cypriot media shows that, Omer Tekoglu, just like Erkan Egilmez was also abducted by the Greek Cypriot regime from within Pyla, which is in the buffer zone under the control of the UN.

Cyprus Mail of 28 December 2000 quotes Andreas Constantinou, the lawyer for the Tsiakourmas family, saying that Nicos Anastassiades, the leader of a Greek Cypriot political party DISY, stated that the Tekoglu was abducted by the Greek Cypriot police from the buffer zone. Full article can be seen through the links below.

Tsiakourmas is the Greek Cypriot, who was arrested on December 12 near Pergama, a Turkish Cypriot village, allegedly having 1.5 kilos of cannabis in his possession.

Greek Cypriot side, claiming that Tsiakourmas was taken from the British sovereign area and claims that this was retaliation by the Turkish Cypriot side for the abduction of Tekoglu.

We have no way of knowing the circumstances of the two case but one thing for sure is that the Greek Cypriot police is responsible for earlier illegal abductions and for torturing the Turkish Cypriots.

The latest events also revealed the two faced policies of certain British MPs, MEPs and the British authorities of the Sovereign Bases Areas (SBA).

While they are doing everything possible to secure the release of the Greek Cypriot, they are not showing any concern for the abduction of the Turkish Cypriot from the UN buffer zone.

According to Greek Cypriot media London MEP Theresa Villiers wrote to Foreign Secretary Robin Cook asking him to do everything possible to secure the release of Greek Cypriot. While she is doing this she shows no concern for the abducted Turkish Cypriot and the possible torture he is facing.

Also in the case of Erkan Egilmez, who still cannot walk properly because of the injuries he sustained at the hands of the Greek Cypriot police, ECHR decided that he should receive £10400, but on the other hand Turkey is being asked to pay over $500,000 to Titiana Loizidou, a Greek Cypriot women who is supposed to be prevented from the use of her property in the TRNC.

This also shows that the European institutions are also biased when it comes to making decisions concerning the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. On one hand a person who was tortured for two months before he was released gets a compensation, which can be termed as diabolical, and a Greek Cypriot gets an astronomical amount of money for her misfortune because of the situation created by her own sides atrocities since the first attacks on th Turkish Cypriots in 1963 up until 1974.

click here for Cyprus Mail Article on Egilmez

click here for Cyprus Mail Article on Tekoglu