The breakaway regime is reportedly trying to lead the Greek Cypriot society to collapse by sending drugs and illegal refugees
Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (29.08.12) reports that Izzet Izcan, general secretary of the United Cyprus Party (BKP), has described as murder the death of six Syrian refugees after the boat which was carrying them sank last week in the open sea of occupied Karpasia peninsula. In a written statement issued yesterday, Izcan argued that those who rule the occupied area of Cyprus are also responsible for this murder. Izcan wondered how conducting human trafficking is possible in a “country” where so many “policemen” and “soldiers” exist and criticized the “police” and the “state”.

Izcan said, inter alia, the following: “…Our country has been turned into a centre of human trafficking. Mafia circles, who secure profit from this issue, behave as they wish everywhere. Unfortunately, during the recent incident, six Syrian refugees were drowned and died. This is a murder. All the governments, which have not taken the necessary measures against the human trafficking, are as responsible as those committing the crime. Those who have committed this murder should be punished in the heaviest manner…”

Izcan noted that all kinds of mafia and smuggling have become commonplace in the occupied area of Cyprus due to the fact that the occupied northern part of the island is outside the international law and the non-solution of the Cyprus problem continues. “Every kind of smugglers, mafia, common criminals and thieves who swindle the world and crooks take refuge in our country, because we are outside the international law”, said Izcan noting that this situation should end.

Meanwhile, Afrika today refers to the issue of human trafficking in its “Letter from Afrika” column and wonders how this is possible especially in occupied Karpasia peninsula which is full of military bases. The paper goes on and says: “…This is a mystery indeed. However, serious suspicions also exist in this mystery. They say that putting refugees illegally into the country and afterwards letting them free to go to the south is a ‘state’ policy. The same allegation is also valid for the drug trafficking. They say that these are done in order to turn both the refugees and the drugs into trouble for the Greek Cypriot administration on the one hand and to shake its economy on the other.

If these allegations are true – and the Greek Cypriot side has serious complains in this direction- then it comes out that the arrested smugglers are not alone, that influential forces are behind them and they are only pawns in this issue. We also do not think that the smugglers could undertake this job without leaning upon a very solid rock. In the past they had also brought refugees to the coast of Platanissos and no one realized it. If this boat had not sunk now and the poor Syrian refugees had not died in the sea, would this operation have not been successful as well? …”

Moreover, columnist Sami Ozuslu also refers to the issue in his column in Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (29.08.12) under the title “Why the human trafficking is not (cannot be) stopped?” He says that everybody is looking for a “hidden catch” when human trafficking could be carried out so easily in such a small place and notes that the “administrators” of occupied Karpasia peninsula agree that if the so-called state wanted, it could stop human trafficking. He goes on and says: “It is known that the refugees who are brought to the TRNC coasts, in some way, cross over or are lead to cross over to the south. It is said that an average of 4-5 thousand refugees cross over to south Cyprus every year”. According to Ozuslu, the “cake” from the human trafficking is roughly estimated around 20 million US dollars