CyprusScene Girne TRNC News Podcasts : Municipality News Page 13 Page 10/21/25 Pages 2/3/4/5/6 CyprusScene.com The real newspaper For people - By people 2nd April 2021 to 8th April 2021 / Year 5 / Issue 173 - FREE to read or download "Kapali - Closed" Online Theatre Martyr Emine Rüstem Akansoy by Heidi Trautmann and her 4 children who were slaughtered in 1974 now laid to rest Page 11 ISLANDSBC Online Bridge Club is one year old Pages 16/17/18 "Mother President" and "Father President" Is that right? By Ahmet Abdulaziz Page 4 To read all Animal Welfare CyprusScene.com Enewspapers go to: https://cyprusscene.com/e-newspaper/ Pages 8/9/14/15 Page 7 Page 02 CyprusScene.com LOCAL NEWS 2nd to 8th April 2021 Ministry of Health - COVID-19 - Update Tourism activities will start as "closed-circuit" on 12th April Tourism and Environment Minister beyond the accommodation facilities go out of the facility, and no one from CyprusScene.com Fikri Ataoğlu announced that "closed- they have reserved through agencies the outside will be allowed to enter circuit" tourism activities will start on and they will have electronic the tourism accommodation facility Monday, 12th April 2021 within the wristbands which have been other than employees. Criminal EDITOR AND NEWSROOM scope of the conditions and measures developed by, and will be controlled sanctions will be imposed on those Chris ELLIOTT determined as a result of the meetings through, North Cyprus Turkcell. who act against the specified criteria email: [email protected] with the Infectious Diseases Supreme and measures. Committee of the Ministry of Health. Employees of tourism accommodation facilities that will be Source: TRNC Public Information DEPUTY EDITOR Making a written statement, Minister included in the “closed circuit” Office EVENTS AND REVIEWS Ataoğlu announced the criteria and tourism model will not be allowed to Margaret SHEARD measures determined for "closed- email: [email protected] circuit" tourism activities, including charter and scheduled flights, as of 12th April. Accordingly, closed-circuit RESIDENT JOURNALIST tourism activities will be valid for Ahmet ABDULAZIZ charter and scheduled flights and the email: [email protected] tourists who will enter the country will submit double negative PCR test results. SPORTS CORRESPONDENT Richard BEALE Hotel reservations will be made email: through agencies. Tourists coming to [email protected] the TRNC will not be allowed to go LOCAL NEWS CyprusScene.com Page 03 2nd to 8th April 2021 Tatar: Call for sovereign equality makes great impact in the world President Ersin Tatar said “Our the world. based on sovereign equality with open a new page and he stressed thesis on the basis of sovereign cooperation of two states in that, as the UN Secretary General equality continues to make great Stressing that he has taken some Cyprus. Antonio Guterres expressed, this impact in the world”. According to very important steps towards time it will be different. the statement of the TRNC lifting of isolations imposed on the Furthermore, mentioning the Presidency, Tatar gave an Turkish Cypriots and preventing 5+UN Meeting to be held in Source : TRNC Public interview to Milliyet newspaper. the obstacles in respect of the Geneva on 27-29 April 2021, Tatar Information Office Turkish Cypriots living in the UK said that they will go to Geneva to Expressing that Greek Cypriot side and for British citizens to visit never gave up their dream of North Cyprus as tourists, President Enosis in Cyprus, Tatar said that Tatar said that he has been working even the British politician and very hard towards starting direct former Secretary of State for flights to North Cyprus. Adding Foreign and Commonwealth that Jack Straw knows Cyprus very Affairs Jack Straw gave a clear well and said that an agreement support for a two-state solution in based on a federation was not Cyprus and this is the proof of our possible in Cyprus, Tatar said that success of announcing our thesis in Straw also supports a solution Presidency made a statement regarding the registration of Hellim The Presidency made a statement Committees of the European and which has cultural, social and registration standards, will carry regarding the registration of Union. economic importance, in the out this audit has not been clarified Hellim in the presence of the presence of the EU to take into and despite our persistent attempts, European Union. The approval process required for account the rights and interests of the issues of cooperation have not the legalisation of the regulations our producers. been clarified. Our contacts with The statement is as follows: is expected to be completed in the European Commission will mid-April. As the Presidency we, We kept the subject on the agenda continue in line with our demands “Hellim / Halloumi is registered as together with the EU Coordination of the European Union and on these issues. a Protected Designation of Origin Centre, have already taken the member countries at the highest (PDO) in the European Union and necessary initiatives in level and shared our opinions, As the Presidency, we made the regulations that will allow the coordination with the relevant suggestions and concerns with the suggestions to the Greek Cypriot trade of Hellim to be produced in Chambers, producers unions and relevant parties at every stage in side both through the Commission accordance with the EU food other stakeholders in order to consultation with our producers. and directly, on the subject of safety standards and registration to ensure that the registration as a Although it has been stated that using the registration of the European Union through the Protected Designation of Origin some of our concerns have been geographical indication of Green Line Regulation are (PDO) and trade of Hellim, which met during the current period, the Hellim/Halloumi as a measure of approved by the relevant sub- is unique to the island of Cyprus final form of the two regulations confidence building in order to that will be legalised has not yet create trust between the two been shared with us, and our peoples on the island. Despite our requests for the elimination of constructive attitude, the Greek uncertainties regarding Cypriot side preferred the progress implementation have also been left of the EU process before the unanswered. demands of the Turkish Cypriot producers were fulfilled and the For example, how the international uncertainties became clear. In audit organisation Bureau Veritas, other words, it once again rejected which was appointed in our proposal for cooperation accordance with the joint between the two parties.” agreement reached between the two leaders in 2015 and will audit Source : TRNC Public in compliance with the Information Office geographical indication Page 04 CyprusScene.com LOCAL NEWS 2nd to 8th April 2021 Martyr Emine Rüstem Akansoy and her 4 children laid to rest Emine Rüstem Akansoy and her 4 Rüstem Akansoy, 12 year old civilians who were massacred Source : TRNC Public children, who were civilians Erbay Rüstem Akansoy and 8 year and buried in the mass grave Information Office slaughtered in the Muratağa old Sibel Rüstem Akansoy. were aged between 16 days old Village massacre on 14 August and 95 years old. 1974, were buried in a mass grave. On 20 July 1974 all men of The Martyrs identified by the fighting age of the Muratağa, studies of the Committee on Sandallar and Atlılar Villages Missing Persons in Cyprus have were taken away as prisoners of been laid to rest at Muratağa – war by EOKA and on 14 August Sandallar Martyrdom. 1974 when the second peace operation of Turkey to Cyprus Emine Rüstem Akansoy was a 36 started, 126 Turkish Cypriot year old mother and her children civilians who were women, were 15 year old Sezin Rüstem children and elderly people in the Akansoy, 13 year old Mustafa three villages were massacred. The Turkey's National Security Council: 2 independent states essential Turkey's National Security negotiations rather than following Council (MGK) : ‘For a the nearly-half-a-century-old permanent solution two approach that ignored the independent states are essential’ existence of Turkish Cypriots on Turkey's National Security the island, discussing Council (MGK) held a meeting comprehensive and permanent chaired by Turkish President solution formulas based on the Recep Tayyip Erdogan. realities in the island and the two independent states model is In the Cyprus section of the essential. statement made after the meeting, it was underlined that the latest Source : TRNC Public situation reached in Cyprus was Information Office evaluated and that in respect of Approval of the Geographical Registration of Hellim by the EU The EU Commission’s indicated that Hellim could be approve the mentioned text in the Source : TRNC Public Geographical Indications produced separately with only following days. Information Office Agency and EU Permanent goat or only sheep milk, with a Committee on Food Safety and mixture of goat and sheep milk Standards approved the and with a mixture of goat, sheep registration of Hellim as a and cow milk. However it is protected designation of origin stressed that the percentage of (PDO). cow milk always has to be less than goat or sheep milk. Accordingly, Hellim produced only in Cyprus with specified A private company called standards would be sold in the Bureau Veritas based in France EU market under the name of will supervise compatibility of Hellim or Halloumi or both. the Hellim