Filenews 11 June 2024
Houses for settlers in Israeli-held areas in the West Bank and the Golan Heights are being built by Turkish-Jewish businessman Simon Aykut, who also holds a Portuguese passport.
This is the director of the company AFIK Group who was arrested last week at the Deryneia barricade while crossing into the free areas to travel to Israel from Larnaka airport. Aykut is in 5-day detention and will appear before the Nicosia District Court again on Thursday.
According to the PIO, Avrupa is currently reporting these allegations by journalist Emir Abdulrahman Bulut to the Independent Türkçe. The report states that Aykut has citizenship of the Republic of Turkey, the pseudo-state, Portugal and Israel and that complaints were made to the authorities of the Republic of Cyprus both by Greek Cypriots whose properties he looted and by foreigners who bought villas and did not receive title deeds.
Meanwhile, Yeni Bakis refers to statements by the president of the association of Turkish Cypriot building contractors, Xhafer Gjurzafer, who argued that the solution of the Cyprus problem began to acquire more importance, as natural gas has now begun to surface, adding that we are entering a process regarding the route through which the gas will pass and the share that each one should take.
''Trying to arrest someone in the middle of this period is, to me, a provocation. There is currently no other contractor expected to be arrested, but we as contractors will not leave that matter at that. Simon Aykut and Caesar are members of the contractors' association. We will support them to the end. Because its actions are correct according to the internal law of the TRNC," he said, referring to the pseudo-state.
The issue was also put on the agenda of the "platform of economic organizations" and they will define a common strategy, he said.
Arguing that this is a matter that would be of interest to the European Court of Human Rights, he said the ECHR had pointed the finger at the "real estate commission" and argued that "seeking avenues beyond it does nothing but harm the peace process."
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