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 JANUARY 1995

1) From: Hamide Koyuncuoglu (hkoyuncu@owlnet.rice.edu)
Subject: Re: Bradford'dan selam.
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 18:43:33 -0600 (CST)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22]

Erhan, Thanks for the URL.
I tried it and it works on Mosaic. However, it does not work on Netscape which is a very popular version of Mosaic.
It just gives the program that you wrote. Your homepage is great. I did not have time to go thru it in detail yet; but
I'm impressed with what I have seen. I am surprised that Turgut (I'm assuming he's the one from UPENN) wouldn't
let y'all use his picture. I have seen that picture and I really like it. [Actually it's one of my Owlnet backgrounds.]

If you don't mind, I will link your page to my homepage. I am trying to setup a section about Cyprus. right now I
don't have time to work on documents myself. I am maintaining two homepages for RiceInfo and with classes and
stuff, it takes pretty much all of my time. However, I will let you know if I have any info or suggestions....

Thanks again, Hamide

PS: If you talk to Canan and/or Candan, say hi from me. I don't have an e-mail address for either one of them.

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APRIL 1995


2) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 17:15:25 EDT
From: JDYL67A@prodigy.com (DR UGUR AKINCI)
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: TRNC Home Page
Content-Length: 208

Good job!

I'm US representative of Turkish Daily News. I live in Washington DC, USA.
If you come across any important news tips about TRNC I'd be interested to
hear about them.

Good luck!
Ugur Akinci

3) Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 16:00:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: nick.kounoupias@mcps.co.uk
Subject: Northern and Southern Cyprus
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Organization: Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society Ltd.

I am very intrigued by your use of the internet to promote the TRNC. Could you please tell me more about your work, what audience you
have in mind and whether you believe that this facility is something which can be used by both Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Look forward to your reply.
Nick

4) From cgeodym@ibm.net Sat Jun 3 09:39:58 1995
Date: Wed, 31 May 95 14:21:43 PDT
From: cgeodym@ibm.net
Subject: TRNC Home Page
To: D.J.Johns@bradford.ac.uk
Cc: eaince@bradford.ac.uk, info-admin@bradford.ac.uk, S.K.Morell@bradford.ac.uk, y.y.senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Reply-To: cgeodym@ibm.net
Content-Length: 2890 X-Status:

To all recipients,
I was born and brought up as an Australian citizen of Cypriot origin and was raised in a pluralistic society. I am currently living and working in Cyprus
with my wife and two daughters. I have recently gained access to the INTERNET and wish to express my concern that Messrs Erhan A. Ince and
Y.Yasar Senturk maintain a WWW Home Page via the University of Bradford that presents a distorted picture of the Island State of the Republic of
Cyprus. Cyprus is a forcibly divided state via the actions of the Turkish military that began long before I came to Cyprus. Suffice to say that Turkey is
the only country that recognises the area that its military forces occupy and that the pseudo state of "Northern Cyprus" is denounced by the United
Nations as an illegally occupied area. The European court has also declared as illegal for any member of the EU to receive certain exports from this
pseudo state. This is not intended to be a history lesson, I am merely highlighting some pertinent facts to justify the following request.

The WWW Home Page maintained by the above mentioned persons must cease immediately in its present form. It does not reflect in a favourable
light the fact that the University of Bradford sanctions the actions of the above mentioned persons in maintaining a presence on the INTERNET that
perpetrates inaccuracies of such a serious nature. Especially since they cannot be deemed as of an academic nature.

My next actions will be to:
i) contact the recognised President of Cyprus and recommend that an official protest be levelled to the Government of England as well as
to the University of Bradford
ii) contact the Government of England's Ombudsman to see what legal actions can be taken to either cease the operation, in its present form,
the above mentioned Home Page and/or reduce funding to the University of Bradford in order to discourage Home Pages of the able nature
being set up
iii) contact the English language newspaper The Cyprus Weekly detailing the extent to which the University of Bradford has allowed the above
mentioned Home Page to maintain a presence on the INTERNET. The Cyprus Weekly has a substantial distribution in Cyprus as well as the
English voters in the UK
iv) contact the Cypriot Minister of Education and suggest that they advise prospective Cypriot students not to enrol in any courses offered by
the University of Bradford The ultimate aim of this communication to you is to encourage the spread of accurate information regarding Cyprus.

Once more people become aware of the plight of this small nation, then I truly believe that a peaceful and political solution can be found. My family
and I could then freely visit every part of the Island without the spectre of a military held area purporting to be a separate state.

Awaiting your earliest reply
Chris Georgiou-Dymiotis

5) From: alarson (alarson@igc.apc.org)
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 95 09:48:53 -700
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: comments on your page
Sender: alarson@ppp20.igc.org

I am very impressed by your page. I was particularly glad to see all the news about the fire, though it was very disturbing news of course.
One point about your history--the 1974 events.To the best of my knowledge Sampson did not lead the coup. He was a desperate choice to
head the govt when others refused. The coup was directed by the colonels in Athens and carried out by the Greek troops. Much of the National
Guard deserted. I don't know how much Cypriot involvement there was prior to the coup. I understood it wasn't all that much.

Anne Larson



JUNE 1995


6) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.hellas
Message-ID: (199506121535.LAA54956@atlanta.american.edu)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:35:29 -0400
Reply-To: eh9174a@AMERICAN.EDU
Sender: The Hellenic Discussion List From: "Eleftherios N. Hazapis"
Subject: Home page ths "B. Kyprou" Comments:
To: hellas@american.edu

Mporeite na deite to home page ths Boreias Kyprou sto: http://www.brad.ac.uk/~eaince/.ncyprus/doc2.html

Leuterhs.

7) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:15:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Stephen Hopkins (shopkins@coventry.ac.uk)
X-Sender: shopkins@rowan
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: North Cyprus Web Pages

Hi there.
While I have immensely enjoyed your Web pages covering the TRNC, I must point out the some of the links do not work.
When you have a moment, do you think you could sort this out, please?

Many thanks.

8) From: Panayiotis Zaphiri (pzaphiri@athena.cc.ucy.ac.cy)
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 10:53:58 +0300 (WET)
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: HOME PAGE

Erhan hi !! I took a look at your home page... nice additions... I will not comment on their contents since we talked about it many many times
before and none of us will change his views. But I would liked to point one technical mistake that your have in your account. Your are putting
as counter of your page the count of ege university in Turkey instead of your own page's counter. I thought it would be of help to point this to
you since its such a mistake that will reduce the reputation of your page :-))

Take care, Panayiotis Zaphiris

9) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 19:50:20 +0100 (BST)
From: Simon Craig Gray (S.J.Craiggray@bradford.ac.uk)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk

Yash, I have seen the North Cyprus page you created.
It looks very nice, and informative.

10) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 21:42:56 -0400
From: pan (pmessolo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Informational Just!!!

Hi, My name is Pantelis Messolonghitis, and I'm a Greek Cypriot. I've just recently been going through your home page for Northern Cyprus,
I must admit you did do a good job, at least better than we did(Cypriot Page). Im just writting to say that even though your pages have a lot
of truth in them a significant amount of the information is significantly biased in the sense that you are trying to convey to the world that taking
36% of the Island was a must to save the Turkish Cypriots.

I must admit that I don't know much about history or governmental issues with reference to Cyprus as I was born outside of Cyprus and have
lived most of my life abroad, but what I do know is that prior to 74 Turkish & Greek Cypriots did get along, maybe not like brother and sister but
well enough to avoid the repatriation of 200,000 Greek Cypriots which find themself's refugees within their own country for no apparent realistic
reason. I believe that this is a very simplified version of the truth, however, the bottom line is that and "invasion" was not necessary and trust me
Turkey never had to worry about trouble from Cyprus, we are only 600,000 people and you are in excess of 50mill. Anyway whats done is done
and theirs no point of making things worse, I just wanted to point out that if your going to tell the world something theirs no harm in giving an
unbiased view. Well thats it from me, hopefully Cyprus will be united one day. You never know what might happen with politician's these days.

Pantelis Messolonghitis.

11) From tozun@ix.netcom.com Wed Jun 28 09:19:48 1995
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 01:17:37 -0700
From: tozun@ix.netcom.com (Orhan Tozun)
Subject: Text files
To: eaince@bradford.ac.uk

First I'd like to congratulate you - the North Cyprus home page came out very well. There is only one problem - when I tried to read the text files
the margins were much to big, so one line would be so long that I'd have to scroll to the right to read it. Maybe you should change the font to a
smaller size or make the margins smaller.

-Ned

12) From: "okan (o.) baysan" (okanb@bnr.ca)
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: congrats...
X-Status: Content-Length: 169

Merhaba Erhan,
Congrats for maintaining such an excellent Web page for the TRNC.
It appears to be well done and quite informative. Absolutely brilliant!

Cheers,
Okan.


JULY 1995


13) Date: 08 Jul 95 17:01:44 EDT
From: Ahmet Kemal-Hilmi (100532.1652@compuserve.com)
To: "Erhan A. Ince" (E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk)
Subject: North Cyprus Content-Length: 560

Dear Erhan, I have read with interest your pages on North Cyprus on Internet.
It was a pleasent surprise to read such a wealth of information from my home country.
My specialised interest area is the history of Cyprus, particularly the Lusignan and the
Venitian periods, which left us plenty of gems. Unfortunately, there are so little of academic
interest in those periods of our heritage within the community.

My Email address is; 100532.1652@compuserve.com

I look forward to hearing from you and discussing Cyprus.

By for now,
Ahmet kemal-Hilmi

14) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 18:55:59 +0100 (MEDT)
From: melih@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr
Subject:North Cyprus Home Page on WWW
To: YY SENTURK (Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk)

Merhabalar, Sayfalariniza girip baktim, gercekten basarililar, tebrik ederim. Acikcasi bir kac ay once guney kibrisin (oldukca basarili) bir
homepage'ine rastlayinca kuzey kibris sayfasi hazirlamak icin dokumanlar toplamistim, ama tezimin son senesi oldugundan bir turlu vakit
bulup da toparlayamamistim. COk memnun oldum bir Kuzey Kibris sayfasi olduguna.

Ben sizi sayfalarima ekledim, siz de benim sayfalarimi eklerseniz sevinirim.

Basarilar ve selamlar.

Melih Ozbek
http://www.metu.edu.tr/~melih/

15) From ss@zenon.logos.hol.gr
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 18:45:32 -0700
From: ss (ss@zenon.logos.hol.gr)
Organization: LogosNet
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject:

pigs you are going to burn in hell very soon pigs!

16) From: uzay dogac (udogac01@fiu.edu)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 18:32:28 -400
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
X-Url: http://www.brad.ac.uk/~eaince/.ncyprus/doc2.html
Content-Length: 832

Hi from Miami!
First of all I wish to congradulate and thank you for your wonderful work on my corner of heaven.
Born and raised in North Cyprus, I have been in Miami attending Florida International University.
At this critical stage of affairs it is vital that our voice be heard around the world. It is almost
unfeasible to let masses know of what had happened and what is happening in N. Cyp.
Nevertheless it is immensely spirit-lifting to see that we are trying it. It is highly unlikely to
speak of the possible peace settlement in Cyprus. However, to surrender our faith in being
recognized is only impossible. I wish to hear your opinions and thoughts about the future of
peace talks and the future of N. Cyp. soon.

My best wishes to you,

Sincerely Yours.
Uzay R. Dogac
Udogac01@solix.FIU.edu

17) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 23:32:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Evis Zenios (zevis@acs.bu.edu)
Subject: Who gave you the right?
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Length: 191

For real, who gave the right to create a home page of "Northern Cyprus."
Please respond because it is a very serious matter.

Zenios Evis
Manufacturing Engineering. Computer Consultant.

18) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 95 11:38:49 -0700
From: Arletti Alesandro (md.snc@dns.inbox.modena.it)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Further informations

I've always been interested in your country and I think it's one of the last beautiful sea site in the Mediterraneum.
This year I'm thinking to visit Cyprus and I've really enjoyed your page; but I've to complain about the lack of any
hotel address or information about private house cost or other things concerning hospitality. I think to come from
the 6 to 21 of August, have you some information to send me about where to sleep or so on?

If you need some informations about MODENA or ITALY ask please !

Thank you very much

Arletti Alessandro
mdsnc@inbox.modena.it
MODENA-ITALY

19) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 16:17:30 -0000
From: Malcolm Turnbull (mdt@mdtforen.u-net.com)
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: maps

I am to visit northern cyprus in september but I can't find a detailed map in any bookshops in the UK.
Can you help?

Malcolm


AUGUST 1995


20) From mdt-mdtforen%u-net.com@oveja.u-net.com
Date: Tue Aug 1 12:25:17 1995
X-Sender: mdt-mdtforen@mail.u-net.com
To: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk
From: mdt@mdtforen.u-net.com (Malcolm Turnbull)

This is extremely kind of you and much appreciated. We will be staying near Kyrenia but we have hired a four-wheel drive and are hoping to
cover as much of northern Cyprus as possible in the two weeks we have there - I should never have read Laurence Durrell! Incidentally the
www page is excellent and the sound files for basic language very helpful.

My very best wishes
Dr M D Turnbull

21) Date: 09 Aug 95 03:00:41 EDT
From: "Antonis T. Petasis" (100611.2753@compuserve.com)
To: Erhan Ince <eaince@bradford.ac.uk> 
Subject: Bucknell

Erhan, I am Antonis Petasis from Cyprus and we studied together at Bucknell. I hope you remember me.
I came across your name browsing thru the North Cyprus page on the Web. That's a nice piece of work
you made. I would be very interested to know what you are keeping yourself busy with at the University of
Bradford. As for myself, I am in Paphos (my hometown) in Cyprus and I run my own business dealing with
computer hardware & software. Well, let's keep the communication lines open. I look forward to receiving
your reply. Antonis Petasis P. S. Do you happen to know Faruk Tezcan's whereabouts. If you have an
address or telephone I can reach him at, please let me know.

Thanks.

22) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 10:30:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: "A. Koksal HOCAOGLU" (c584540@showme.missouri.edu)
To: Yasar Senturk <y.y.senturk@bradford.ac.uk>
Subject: North Cyprus page

Merhaba, Sizin sayfaniza bir ay kadar once bir link koymustum. Clickable image map uzerinden "Other Turkish Home Pages" i veya tablo uzerinden
"Turkish Home Pages" i secerseniz sizin sayfaya olan link'i gorebilirsiniz. Daha onceleri bu link, (eski) clickable imagemap uzerindeki KKTC bayragi
ile mumkundu! Sayfanizi cok begendim. Ancak, trafigin yogun oldugu saatlerde cok sayida image'le bezenmis bir sayfayi gormek epeyce sabir istiyor.

Hoscakalin,
A. Koksal Hocaoglu

23) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 95 20:26:25 PDT
From: tyzaim@HK.Super.NET
Subject: KKTC
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Cc: E.A.Ince@bradford.ac.uk

Sevgili Erhan ve Yasar,
Kuzey Kibris'la ilgili sayfanizi Hong Kong'ta surekli izliyorum.
Pek guzel hazirlanmis sizi tebrik ederim.

Selamlar
Tamer Zaim

24) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 09:22:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eser Kandogan (kandogan@cs.UMD.EDU)
To: YY SENTURK <y.y.senturk@bradford.ac.uk>
Subject: Tebrikler

Selamlar, Hemen sizin sayfanizia link koydum.
Bayagi detayli bir sayfa hazirlamissiniz.

Tebrik ederim. Cok guzel olmus.

Sevgiler,
Eser

25) From NECATIGI@VAX.LSE.AC.UK Wed Aug 16 16:13:51 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 16:13 BST From: NECATIGI@VAX.LSE.AC.UK
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk 
Subject: Keep up the good work!

Ya$ar and Erhan, Congratulations!
Thank you very much for creating a Turkish Republic of Norhtern Cyprus Homepage. I think it is the best thing after sliced bread!
It's about time the world listens to the voice of the Turkish Cypriots. I am proud of you,

Thanks again,

Mehmet Necatigil,
London School of Economics & Political Science.

26) From: esin@loki.stanford.edu (esin terzioglu)
Subject: Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Homepage
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:38:09 -0700 (PDT)

Yasar and Erhan, Congratulations on providing such a comprehensive homepage about our beloved country, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
I am outraged to read some of the comments from Greek Cypriot extremists talking about "getting rid" of this wonderful page. Next paragraph is for
them, please put it on your list of comments about your page: And you Greek Cypriot bigots out there who are trying to silence the voice of the Turkish
Cypriots (just like your ancestors did a few decades ago), you will not succeed. Freedom of speech and freedom of self-determination for the Turkish
Cypriots have prevailed and will stay that way. The lies that you have fed to the western countries will be uncovered -- no wonders you are so nervous
about us making our voice heard.

Once again Yasar and Erhan congrats! Esin Terzioglu. esin@loki.stanford.edu


SEPTEMBER 1995


27) Date: Mon, 04 Sep 95 18:47:15 -0100
From: Anthony Dervish (dervisha@gled.logica.co.uk)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Missing DNS entries for .tr domain

Hi Yasar, Many thanks for such a well-designed and detailed site about Northern Cyprus.
I went there for the first time in July of this year - I had a really good time and ate too much.
Two of my relations work at the East Mediterranean University, and have tried to e-mail me
from there, but with no success. Also, when I try to connect to any server in the '.tr' domain
(including EMU from your site), I always get a name server error: 'No entry for that address'.
Do you know what's going on? If you do, I'd be grateful if you would explain the problem to
me. Thanks in advance.

Best wishes,
Anthony Dervish.

P.S. I also get the name server error for your pointer to 'www.pitt.edu', and I'd love to know
       the latest football results.

28) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 20:57:05 +0100
From: "Mr J. Tarhanidis" (J.Tarhanidis@liverpool.ac.uk)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: ??

what is northern cyprus i only know cypriot republic Please tell me you northern cypriot who gave you the right to post this page.
Please explain to us cypriots what we should be called. I like your flag which reminds me of something i was always mixing with
another country. totally impressed by your work and your opinions.

29) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 20:28:59 +0500
From: woodelja@HUGSE1.HARVARD.EDU
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: (no subject)

There is no such thing a "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus".

30) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 12:58:59 0100
From: recep (ar@sn2.ee.umist.ac.uk)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: www page; Bir yazilim hatasi

Selam, Sayfanizin hazirlanmasi ve verdiginiz mucadele icin tebrik ve basarilar.
Bir yazilim hatasi ni da size belirtmek istedim. Sayfanin basinda 'sattelite' bildigim
kadari ile 'satellite' olacak... Dilerim 'ukelalik' olarak almazsiniz....

iyi gunler..
Recep Akmese

31) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 14:09:35 +0100
From: M.Irfan@cs.ucl.ac.uk
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Message from Mustafa Irfan

Hello, I have just started a computer course at University College London. It's the first time I have used the Internet.
I was very pleased to see that our country is represented on this service, and am writing to congratulate you on
producing a service of such good quality.

Kind Regards,
Mustafa Irfan

32) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.hellas
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:44:33 -0400
Sender: The Hellenic Discussion List (HELLAS@AMERICAN.EDU)
From: "C.A. Constantinides" (cac@PIPELINE.COM)
Subject: (fwd) Yahoo kai TRNC (fwd)

> Forwarded message (Christos Pattichis)
> Tha parakalousa osous mporoun na steiloun ena mail sto: admin@yahoo.com
> kai na apaitisoun na allaksoun ton titlo tou listings tous sto:
> http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries opou emfanizetai san 3exwristh
> xwra h "Turkish Rebublic of Northern Cyprus". To link odhga se ena allo
> page pou exei ton titlo: Regional:Countries:Cyprus:North Cyprus pou
> nomizw oti einai entaksei ...
>
> Esteila ena mail stous admin tou Yahoo edw kai 2-3 meres alla den eida
> tipote na diorthwnete. Ama paroun kamia 30aria minimata gia to idio
> thema na tous ipenthimizoun oti den iparxei kratos panw sthn gh pou na
> onomazetai "Turkish Rebublic of Northern Cyprus" nomizw tha peistoun na
> to allaksoun.
>
> Xristos. -- // Constantinos A. Constantinides // cac@nyc.pipeline.com


OCTOBER 1995



 
33) Date: 02 Oct 95 17:15:30 EDT
From: Fahri Zihni (100700.2463@compuserve.com)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Internet North Cyprus Web site - comments

Yasar, I have just been reading "comments" about your first-class North Cyprus site. I would urge my Turkish Cypriot "vatandaslarimi" not
to be outraged by some the comments made by some fellow Cypriots (greeks). This may well be the very first time they are coming into
contact with the true facts of recent Cyprus history, or, at least, a history which reflects the Turkish perspective. I suspect this may be true
of others who have so far been told that Cyprus history started on the day that the Turkish troops invaded the island in 1974- not 3 weeks
before that when the island was effectively invaded by Greece! ... This is the strength of the Internet. Unlike books, you can't burn it. Incidentally,
talking about books, there is an excellent book full of historical detail rather than rhetoric by Pierre Oberling called "The road to Bellapis" if
anyone is interested. It has some of the pre-'74 Macarios speeches quoted make hair-raising reading.

CONGRATUALTIONS for an EXCELLENT showpiece! (I'll buy you a drink if you come over my way...)

Fahri

34) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 01:15:14 +1030
From: John West (johnwest@zenon.logos.hol.gr)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Home Page

Dear Mr Senturk I read your home page on the TRNC with great interest -- I am an English journalist based in southern Nicosia for Reuters news agency.
I travel to the north of the island from time to time and am very interested in contacting Turkish Cypriots to get their side of things and a balanced view.
There is so little contact between the two sides that the Internet can actually be an exciting new channel. I don't know if you know, but this freedom of
access was an issue hotly debated in the Greek part of Cyprus, with some people saying they didn't want to open the gates to Turkish propaganda.
Anyway, here we are now, on the Net and able to communicate and I'd be happy to hear from you.

John West

35) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 95 05:39:17 -0700 From: tres (tekim@tbsa.com.au) To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk Subject: your home page re pressure from greeks to remove Dear Yasar Firstly thanks again for this excellent home page . I visit your site every time I get on the internet and I am dependant on it for information and keeping in touch with how thing are going in north Cyprus. I am in Australia and have not been back in 18 years. the news from N.Cyprus is a very good service I thank you again and hope you can continue providing this. anyway thanks again and good luck yours tres 

 

 

36) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 95 18:50:45 0100 From: Andreas Loizides (A.Loizides@cs.ucl.ac.uk) To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk Subject: A furious GREEK-CYPRIOT X-Url: http://www.brad.ac.uk/~yysentur/.ncyprus/root.html Firstly, You are talking about the so called TRNC, which is a term only recognised by Turkey and Pakistan. That piece of cloth you present as your "flag" is unacceptable. The real flag is the white one showing Cyprus in orange above twogreen branches of an olive tree, and is the only one recognised by the whole world. You talk about the right of the Turkish Cypriot community to be heard in the U.N and other fora. Noone denies the right of speech to the Turkish Cypriots. They are the ones that gave up their right to do so when they decided to withdraw their representatives from the parliament of Cyprus. You also talk about the "Peace Operation" of the Turkish troops in 1974. What really happened is that Turkey in an attempt to occupy the island kicked 200,000 people out of their homes to make them refugees in their own country, killed, raped defenceless women and children, raviged and burnt properties and churches and left 1619 people still missing. Is this a peace operation, or a barbaric invasion? There is a lot of incorrect and unacceptable data that only missleads and misinforms someone who is interested in the situation and is not familiar with the subject. I will not try, for the time being, to argue more and I am waiting for a decend and sincere reply from you that conveys with the historic facts. Yours sincerely, Andreas Loizides 2ndyr BSc Computer Science A.Loizides@cs.ucl.ac.uk 

 

37) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 12:45:32 BST From: Angelina Kyriakidou (A.Kyriakidou@east-anglia.ac.uk) Subject: cyprus, To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk My name is Angelina and I am from CYPRUS. I am Greek Cypriot of-course. I just wanted to tell you that you are misinformed about everything concerning Cyprus and that you have no right producing anything that gives false information to the world.But then you Turks are always doing such things showing your below zero level of civilisation.You have absolutely no idea of what "human rights" are.I'm sure you have never realised what your country has done to Cyprus.Greek Cypriots have been forced to leave their homes,the place where they were born and become refugees. Do you think that this could be fair in any way? Even if you don't give me an answer just make this question to yourself.Imagine how outrageous it is wanting to go and see the place where your parents were born and raised and be derived of that fundamental right.Have you ever thought about that? I'm sure you have never really cared about what is fair or not.You simply are one more tyical Turk:no sense of history, no sign of feelings,no sense of human rights,no sign of any civilisation. (If you'd like to give me a reply my E-mail address is A.Kyriakidou@uea.ac.uk) 

 

38) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 17:49:50 +0500 From: 1@ithaca.edu Subject: (no subject) To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk X-Url: http://pulex.med.virginia.edu/ncyprus/index.html How dare you tell all these lies on the internet? I think you are a bunch of selfish assholes and your objective is not peace in Cyprus, but the division of Cyprus! But then what would you expect from turkish pigs, right? Yes I am a Greek Cypriot and i will never stop fighting for the liberation of Cyprus and the return to my homwtown , Famagusta. 

 

39) Date: Sat, 07 Oct 95 13:59:38 -0700 From: "Levent H. Orer" (bg04226@goodnet.com) To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk Subject: kibris sayfanizi ziyaret ettik. tebrikler. sayin yasar bey, kibris'li room-mate'im tamer nami ile birlikte kibris sayfanizi bugun ziyaret ettik ve tebriklerimizi size bildirmek istedik. Sizden ufak bir ricam var: KKTC haritasindaki sehir isimlerini Turkce olarak yazabilir misiniz? Tesekkurler, Levent H. ORER LORER@BPAOSF.BPA.ARIZONA.EDU 

 

40) Date: 11 Oct 95 01:21:41 EDT
From: "Eric J. Neufeld" (76634.713@compuserve.com)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Information

I have been a regular visitor to your North Cyprus Web site for some time. I find it to be an excellent and informative homepage and
keep returning to learn more about the country. My interest comes from the fact that my brother and his wife recently took up teaching
positions at the International American University. I have been casting about for a way to get EMail to them and for them to respond at
a reasonable cost. I noticed on your homepage that there is a reference to a business known as Comtech which is developing a web site
for that university.

I sent an EMail message a few days ago to the address specified H.Kansu@simurg.iau.edu.tr. I received a message back indicating that
this address did not exist. I had hoped to make contact with my brother through this source, but have had no luck. Is this the correct EMail
address or have I somehow made an error? Do you have any suggestions as to how my brother and I might establish contact? I tried sending
a message to the Mahir BBS but got no reply.

Thank you for whatever help you are able to offer.

Eric Neufeld Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada

41) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 19:12:40 +0100 (BST)
From: "E.Cankan" (E.Cankan@accounting-and-finance.hull.ac.uk)
X-Sender: afm6ec@humus To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject:

merhaba I took your address from the home page of T.R.N.C . And I thought that it will be a good idea to contact with you.
I am studying M.B.A in financial management in University of Hull. I came to England two months ago and Internet is the only
way that I can get some news about my country. And I just want to thank you about the home page of T.R.N.C .

Erel CANKAN

42) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:05:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicholas Neophytou (neophyto@polaris.ncs.nova.edu)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: You are a lier!!

How can you even remotely suggest the existance of a "Northern CYPRUS?" How can you imagine a turkish "Republic?"
I wish I had the time now to chat with an ignorant like youself but I have to go and do some more important "real" stuff in
contradiction to your own "imaginary" world. I wll be writing very soon. Oh, by the way Internet is supposed to be a trustfull
and reliable source of information. Do you consider your page to be one? I don't think so. Sleep toonight in your small
imaginary dream world, and I'll be talking to you soon.

Nicholas Neophytou
neophyto@polaris.ncs.nova.edu

43) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 15:50:04 0000
From: hm204 (hm204@greenwich.ac.uk)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: kibris /cyprus
X-Url: http://www.brad.ac.uk/~yysentur/.ncyprus/root.html 

Yasar may I first of all congratulate you on a well thought out and informative page I am a cypriot turk and at the moment I am at
greenwich university studying computer science. I am currently on my final year and i was happy to find a page which lets me look
at pictures of cyprus from time to time . I would just like to say that I have read alot of the mail that our greekfriends are sending in
and i find it hard to believe that they want to havethis page banned . At the end of the day unless we communicate with each otherlike
human beings their is no way that we will even begin to find a solution so that cyprus can be united .

First of all the greeks should start to think for them- selves and not rely on what their political leaders have brainwashed them with.
Do they really believe that the turks just got up one day in 1974 and decided to invade cyprus?. The cyprus problem goes back many
years and is a complex situation involving other countries. So what i urge the greek cypriots to do is to start to think for themselves as
i cannot believe that educated people of which their are many in south cyprus can have such a narrow minded view. Both the turks and
the greeks lost alot during the 1974 war most of my family lost their homes during this time (we are from paphos) what we must make
sure is that it doesn't happen again. The first step is to leave the past behind and start again. Finally let me leave you with one thought
how many more years will this hate between are two communities go on for? we must make a real effort to find a solution that is good
for both communities now, before other countries force us into one like they have done elsewhere.

yours sincerely
Murat Hassan
(hm204@greenwich.ac.uk)

44) From apoel@zenon.logos.hol.gr Tue Oct 31 15:23:25 1995
From: apoel@zenon.logos.hol.gr
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 95 17:18:01 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: (no subject) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear Bastard, Just wondering how your little mind led to you to write such bullshit. I hope that you don't really beleive any of this and you got
payed well enough to waste your time to write such shit. I liked the ancient Greek Cypriot Monuments and all the Greek history which you portray
as yours. You've been on the island since 1751 and you claim to have a history of 2000 years. Where the FUCK did you get art and history you
stupid son-of a- bitch. You STOLE it! The question is from whom ? The Armenians, the Curds or the Greeks, I guess you lost count!

An angry real=Cypriot.



NOVEMBER 1995


45) Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 17:11:30 +0000
From: LEO Lab
Subject: (no subject)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
X-Url:  http://www.brad.ac.uk/~yysentur/.ncyprus/root.html 

Tebrikler

46) Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 05:15:45 +0600
From: Ellsworth Computer Lab ("Ellsworth Hall"@falcon.cc.ukans.edu)
Subject: Tebrikler To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
X-Url: http://pulex.med.virginia.edu/ncyprus/index.html

Selam!!! Herseyden once seni tebrik etmek istiyorum. Benim bildigim KIBRIS'I cok iyi anlatmissin. Herhangi bir konuda ihtiyacin olursa yardima
hazirim. Yalniz Turgut Durduran'in web-page'inde aldigin muziklerin bazilarinda, sahsen ben,kendi kulturumden bir sey bulamadim. CYPRUS
ANTIPHONS 1,2 bana ve arkadaslara kilise muzigni hatirlatti. Onlarin kulturlerine saygimiz var ama kendi kulturumuz gibiymis gibi gorunmesin.
Dusuncelerinden anladigim kadariyla K.K.T.C.'YI savunan ender arkadaslardan birisin.(INTERNET'TE!!!) Kusura bakma, konudan konuya atliyorum
DEVAM ET!!!! BASARILAR, YANINDAYIZ!!!!!!

E-MAIL: keremcan@falcon.cc.ukans.edu.

47) Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 18:23:00 -0800
From: pc5103@medusa.ceid.upatras.gr
Subject: Freedom to Cyprus
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear friend I would like to inform you that there is no country recognizen from U.N. organazition such as North Cyprus .
The one and only Cyprus is Greek. The northern part of the island had violently taken from Cyprus citizens.
FREEDOM TO CYPRUS The Voice of Greece

48) From: SADIK (su4m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 21:42:13 EST
X-Pcmail-Return-Receipt-Requested: su4m
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk

Sayin Yasar Senturk, Ben Kuzey Kibrisli SadIk Ulker. Amerika'da Elektrik Muhendisligi ogrenimi gormekteyim... Homepage'inizi cok begendigim....
Gercekten takdir edilir bir sekilde hazirlamissiniz. Eger izin verirseniz sizin resimlerden birkac tanesinin kopyasini aliyorum (tabii bu cok kolay bir olay,
mouse un sag tusuna basarak, istedigim dosyayi kopyalayabiliyorum).... Umarim sizin icin bir problem yoktur. Bu konuda yazismak isterseniz e mail
adresim "su4m@Virginia.edu". Basarilarinizin devamini dilerim,

Saygilarimla,

SADIK ULKER SADIK ULKER,
University of Virginia, Electrical Engineering
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tel: (804) 243 0593
e-mail: su4m@Virginia.EDU

49) From: Hans van der Velde (Hans_vander_Velde@hpitcb.desk.hp.com)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 95 20:11:25 -0800
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: cyprus problem
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Yashar Senturk,
How is it possible that you have written such nonsense about the Cyprus- problem? How can you say that the case of the 1619 missing
Greek-Cypriots is based on deceit and deliberate falsehood? How can you say that it is the fault of the Greek-Cypriots? Either you are
crazy or you are really that stupid! Turkey violently attacked the Greek-Cypriots. The Greek-cypriots had to flee from their houses.

THERE WERE 200.000 REFUGEES!!!! A lot of Greek-Cypriots were wounded, raped and killed. Even nowadays the Greek-Cypriots are
not allowed to go back to their old houses, friends, shops etc. They are not allowed to go into North-Cyprus. And how can you say that
there has not been any violence since 1974? Even in these days there are still fights between the Turkish-Cypriots and Greek-Cypriots.

You had better get the right information before writing such crapp on internet. No, I'm not a Greek-Cypriot who wants revanche. I'm just
someone from The Netherlands who has studied on the subject and who got the right information.

50) From: Tacar Gokdemir (tacar@pegasus.eee.kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 95 14:44:46 0000
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: unreadable text
X-Url: http://www.brad.ac.uk/~yysentur/.ncyprus/root.html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear senturk, I congradulate you for writting such good www pages. Since I am a norh cypriot-turkish, I had a go on the pages
http://www.brad.ac.uk/~yysentur/.ncyprus/root.html  . There ara lots of information on cyprus which I consider to be interesting
and well explained. When I saw the www pages I was very proud but i like to make some comments.

1) Some of the font types not easy to see and read, and does not look good.
2) Some text are very difficult to read. such as small white text on bright blue back ground colour

Tacar Gokdemir

51) From: Michael Stamatogianis (ecnstam@ccs.ucy.ac.cy)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 13:47:47 0200
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: WHAT ABOUT THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS?
X-Url:  http://www.brad.ac.uk/~yysentur/.ncyprus/root.html 

I would like to ask your opinion about the Republic of Cyprus and the turkish troops of the island. Would you like to see a free, united Cyprus.
Thank you,

Michalis P. Stamatogiannis
student in the Univercity of Cyprus.

52) From: GeorgiouL@aol.com
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 23:18:47 -0500
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: CYPRUS

Mr Senturk,
You ask if there are any suggestions about the page that you have in the Internet. MY suggestion to you is to erase this page as soon aspossible,
because you say and you show things that only you and Turkey beilive that.For example the fantastic republic that you Create and only Turkey
recognize this. The "Turkish republic of Northern Cyprus". Can you tell me which Country or which International Organazition regognize this republic or
that piece of cloth That you represent as your Flag. In Cyprus thare is only one Flag and one real goverment and that goverment is the Cypriot Goverment.

Yestarday it was the date that before 12 years Turkey Create this thing that they call it TRNC. Dont forget that your lovely Country, In 1974 Invaded Cyprus,
Killed 3000 Men raped Thousands of women and Created 200000 regugees. I fell very but for you if you are proud for those sh.... that you call them Turkey
and TRNC. But you should know that one dayyou are going to pay for all this terrable things that your country did and still doing in the world. Dont forget the
genocide of 1.5 million Armenians that your lovely Country did or the thousands of dead Kourds. Dear Senturk, you must undersand that the TRNC will never
be regognized by The entire world- Except Turkey- and erese your page from the Internet. You know that what I am Saying is truth and I know that you are fell
bad foryour Country but as I told you one day you will going to pay for all the things that you did to this world
DONT FORGET !!!!!!!!!!! CYPRUS IS GREEK AND IT WILL REMAIN GREEK FOR EVER!

53) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 95 18:10:08 -0800
From: mehmet.kadir@canada.cdev.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Home page
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I am impressed with the home page, excellent work, congradulatios.
I am proud of you. I am a turkish cypriot.

Regards
Mehmet Kadir

54) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 95 13:31:02 -0800
From: rosst@vax.ox.ac.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: (no subject)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Dear Mr Senturk, It is odd that someone of your academic gravitas should not point out that the region in the North is infact under occupation -
a notion underlined by the fact that the occupied area is one of the most highly militarised areas in the world. Let us also not forget all the
enclaved whose human rights are being violated on a daily level. These are objective and unmistakable facts - but then if one has one's own axe
to grind,these are quite easy to surpass. The notion asserted by some that Cyprus is Greek is total and utter CRAP - the fact that the island
as a whole has a predominantly Hellenic culture does not make for an extension of Greece. The fact is that Cyprus has a distinct character as
it is not wholly Greek but substantially otherwise.

LONG LIVE CYPRUS - FOR THE CYPRIOTS!
- all Greeks and Turks have no business meddling there, so bugger off!

55) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:40:41 +0100
From: lloizus@glam.ac.uk
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: There is only one cyprus
X-Vms-To:
SMTP%"Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk"

What are this bullsheets you are saying about TRNC .

Go and read some- thing about history (real history) and show me whwre it is saying about TRNC.
Wake up, THERE IS ONLY ONE CYPRUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REFUGEE (SINCE 1974)!!!!!!

56) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:21:34 -0800
From: "Robert W. Gore" (Rozum@u.arizona.edu)
Subject: Our land and those who destroyed it...
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk

Dear Sir, I am eager to break 21 years of enforced silence and unexpressed views.
Please do so indicate if you also so wish. It is up to us to "Make It So...", and to
make it happen.

Sincerely,
Panayiotis A. Ellinas

57) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 95 21:15:16 0000
From: "Izzet Kale (SPG)" (izzet@cmsa.westminster.ac.uk)
Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject:

Selam Ya$ar, I have been following the EXCELLENT job both you and Erhan Ince have been doing for quite a while now and would like to
congradulate you and say well done and keep it up. Bir nokta da, senin swiss.html'inde map of Kyrenia'an yanli$ file'a bagli. Girne yerine
Lefko$a'yi verir. I thought you might want to correct it.

All the best, Izzet KALE


DECEMBER 1995


58) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 95 23:27:28 0500
From: Bjorn Gustavsson (bjorn.gustavsson@jmg.gu.se)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Massmedia on Cyprus
X-Url: http://www.brad.ac.uk/~yysentur/.ncyprus/doc2.html

Hello, My name is Karin Henriksson and I'm a student at the department of journalism and masscommunication at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
I'm working on an essay on the media structure on Cyprus. I'm especially interested in the newspapers, both the turkish ones and the greek ones. I'm leaving
for Cyprus on Sunday december 10 in company with a group of six students. I would really appreciate if you could help me in any way. I4m intersted in getting
in touch with journalists working on Cyprus and I4m also interested in any kind of information that might be useful for my trip. I would be truly grateful for a
response from you.

Yours sincerely,
Karin Henriksson
e-mail: karin.henriksson@jmg.gu.se

59) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 14:51:53 GMT
From: asa.eriksson@jmg.gu.se
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: cypriotic media

Hello, My name is Åsa Eriksson and I study journalism in Gothenburg together with Karin Henriksson to whom you wrote on tuesday december 5th
about cypriotic media. We´re very grateful that you answered so quickly. The adresses were very useful for our work. Now we have some more questions
about northern Cyprus. How and from where is the republic of northern Cyprus ruled? Is there any cooperation between the greek and the turkish side?

Does the state use censorship towards the press? Do you have any other information about the terms of work for the turkish-cypriotic journalists?
If you can help us in any way, by answering our questions or recommending litterature, we would be very grateful.

Yours sincerely, Åsa Eriksson
e-mail: asa.eriksson@jmg.gu.se

60) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 20:45:13 +0300
From: Yiapatos Michael (yiapatos@spidernet.com.cy)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk

Since when the Turkish occupied Cyprus has become "North Cyprus" Turke.
There are a lot thinks i would like to write to you but i am sure that you will
turn them against me. Imagine them.

61) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 95 20:42:05 -0800
From: Demetris Matheou (steiger@spidernet.com.cy)
To: Y.Y.Senturk@bradford.ac.uk
Subject: Re: hello fuckers.
]
HELLO MOTHER FUCKERS MAN,
I LOVE TO FUCK TURKISH WOMEN MAN. ALSO I LOVE TO KILL TURKISH SOLDIERS.
HELLO BY LINK FROM JAMES. FUCK YOUR MOTHERS, AND SISTERS WITH FUCK
FROM CYPRUS, GREECE.

CYPRUS IS GREEK & WILL BE ON THE NEXT 3 YEARS HA! HA!

sEE YA iN hEllLLLL