According to the T/C press, the session of the party parliament is considered critical, the highest party organ of the CEC, in the early afternoon today, where the issue of forming a "government" under the "deputy", Unal Ustel, who was given the mandate by Ersin Tatar on Monday night, will be discussed. Meetings to reach cooperation to form the "government" are expected to begin after this session.
The political crisis in the occupied territories has been ongoing since the end of April, and the assignment of the mandate to a "deputy" rather than the chairman of the JCC has provoked a reaction. PKK and CL have announced that they do not consider a "government" under Ustel legitimate and therefore will not meet with him.
The People's Party of Qudret Ozersai has reportedly decided to withdraw from the "parliament" in case such a "government" gets a vote of confidence. This is reported on the front page of Avrupa, writing that the PTK should follow suit and withdraw from "parliament" as well. According to Dialog, Kudret Ozersai himself spoke last night in a TV show on tv2020 and said that leaving the "parliament" is an option "on the table."
The United Cyprus party had called on the PKK to also leave the "parliament" because of the developments, but the opposition party has not taken such a decision so far. As long as Faiz Suzhouoglu is chairman of the CEC, we do not consider such a 'government' (under Unal Ustel) to be legitimate, PKK chairman Toufan Erhiurman said yesterday. He added that it was neither democratic nor ethical to again give the mandate to form a "government" to Faiz Suzhouoglu who tried twice and failed. But, he continued, as long as he is in the presidency of the CEC, giving the mandate to someone else from the party is not legal. He also cited Tahsin Ertugrologlu's statement that Ankara does not want Mr. Suzhouoglu, saying this "shows interference from outside and under these circumstances, forming a government is not legal."
A game has been played for days and the CL will not take part in the formation of a "government" by others, said Kudret Ozersai, saying the assignment to Unal Ustel was "against democratic principles." "The JC must understand that it is not in a position to appoint even a prime minister. The whole thing has turned into a race for offices and positions," he added. The right thing to do, he continued, is for the CCP to sit down to solve its internal party problems, not to join a "government" and for the PTK to form a minority "government", which the CL will support, he said. According to him, it is not certain that a "government" under Unal Ustel will get a vote of confidence from the "parliament" and the option of leaving the "parliament" for his party is on the table. He noted, however, that "among ourselves we are discussing various options to react."
The presidents of the PP and CA parties, Fikri Ataoglu and Erhan Arikli have said they will meet with Unal Ustel. Ataoglu said he had already had a "foot in the door" discussion with him and contacts will begin after the meeting of the party organs of the CEC. If Unal Ustel gets the authority (on how to form the "government") from the party parliament of the CEC, we can meet with him and the same tomorrow, Arikli said for his part.
The CEC has 24 seats in the "parliament", the PTK has 18 seats, the DK and CL parties have 3 each and the CA has 2.
Columnist Levent Ozadam in Kipris Postasi reports today that everyone sees and understands that there is interference in what they are experiencing and writes that the question has changed from "what did Sutzuoglu do and they want his head" to "what happened and Sutzuoglu backed down?". "He did indeed do something that was put in front of him and he can't fight back...". This answer, he added, is being kept secret even by "President" Tatar, as he calls the T/C leader.
He also mentioned that Ustel is supported by the supporters of the CEC, while the opposition, who are calling for Suzhouoglu to stand firm, are not clearly telling him that they will support him to the end.
Ozadam noted that if Unal Ustel finally gets a vote of confidence, what awaits him first is the economic protocol and the promotion of reforms by all means. If Ustel does not have the support of Ankara, he continued, and this "government" will not have a long life and this is something that Unal Ustel must know.
Recalling the case of the private jet from Turkey with businessmen and not only that had come to the occupied territories during the quarantine period with permission from Unal Ustel who was then the responsible "minister", the T/C columnist said that if Mr. Ustel now sits in the position of "prime minister", that report on the incident that was said to be ready but was never made public should be made public.
Democracy has been poisoned in the north of Cyprus, writes Yeni Dusen director Jenq Mutluyakali. "Even saying 'there is intervention' is meaningless in itself. Who intervened? If there is a coup, it is necessary to mention the coup-maker; while we are angry with the puppet, it is inevitable to mention the clown. It makes no sense to attack Tatar and the CEC but keep silent about Ankara."
Mutluyakali in his article entitled "Getting angry at the coup plotter" writes that there are people in the "north" who openly accept that Cyprus is run by Turkey and besides, they see Tayyip Erdogan as president, watch Turkish TV shows, have Turkish teams, all from Turkey. "That's why we have to get rid of the echo of our own voice and explain to a much wider area that this regime has no future. In an organized way we need to move to awareness raising, information and awakening."
These, he continued, have also passed into political life and are being normalized. "It is not enough to just talk about the coup. We'll talk about the coup as well. If it is not us who are ashamedWe will make him ashamed."
There is talk, he added, of changing the political and legal system in "tdvk" as it calls the pseudo-state - to resemble that of Turkey and referred to an article by Metin Munir who had written that there would be an annexation that would not be called that and the pseudo-state would become a province of Turkey. Referring to the differences between province and vilayet, which are similar in usage, Jenq Mutluyakali concludes by writing that "annexation is closer."
Source: CNA
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