UN kritisiert Zypern wegen der Behandlung türkischer Zyprioten

>Cypriot authorities defended the country’s framework during the hearing, saying government services are available in Greek, Turkish, and English, and noting that citizen service centers employ Turkish-speaking staff.

**Citizen Centers do not employ Turkish-speaking staff and also do not provide service to TCs.**

Call Citizen Service Center (KEP) Ammochostos Location: 83 Eleftherias Street, 5380 Deryneia, Cyprus Phone: +357 23 300300 Fax: +357 23 300302

Speak English and tell them you are TC, or even better, speak Greek and tell them you are TC; it doesn’t matter the language. I have tested both.

It is illegal, but this is the practice all around Cyprus, and I know it is illegal because I forced them to provide service and got my son’s ID from there by using [gov.cy](http://gov.cy) + litigation.

Ask for ID renewal, for example.

They will direct you to Larnaca or Nicosia.

The government further reiterated its longstanding position that entry into Cyprus through ports and airports in the occupied north remains illegal under the Republic’s laws, citing UN Security Council resolutions and European Court of Human Rights rulings recognizing the occupied areas as being under Turkey’s control.

End of story.

Let me say something that will make certain people uncomfortable.

The Republic of Cyprus went to Geneva and spent six hours explaining why it cannot fulfil its obligations. Six hours. And every single answer pointed either to Turkey or to a law that exists beautifully on paper. Not once did anyone from that delegation say: we have fallen short and we will do better.

Not once.

Children born on this island to one Turkish Cypriot parent face extraordinary obstacles getting citizenship. Turkish has been an official language since 1960 and functionally does not exist in courts, government offices or job announcements. Turkish Cypriots are nearly absent from the judiciary, the police, the senior civil service. Not in the north. In the south. In areas under full Republic control. Since 1960.

And I sit here reading this report thinking: this is our state too. We did not choose to be excluded from it. We did not design this situation. We were here before 1974, before 1963, before all of it. The 1960 Constitution was supposed to be our guarantee. Our protection. Our equal place in a shared republic.

What happened to that guarantee? The committee in Geneva was not talking about the north. It was not talking about Turkey. It was asking what this government does with its own citizens in its own territory. And the answer, buried under six hours of legal language and diplomatic deflection, is that a founding community of this republic continues to be treated as something between a guest and a problem.

I did not need a UN committee to tell me that. But I am glad someone in Geneva finally wrote it down.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

It is naive to think a united Cyprus does not depend in part on Cyprus taking at least some of this criticism to heart, “obvious realities” notwithstanding.

UN supports Izrael, fuck them.