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Article: Parliament Condemns Arrest of Turkish Cypriot Journalists NICOSIA, July 13
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 13, 2000
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Cyprus House of Representatives President Spyros Kyprianou on
Thursday protested against the arrest of Turkish Cypriot journalists
by the breakaway Turkish Cypriot regime of the island.
Kyprianou made the protest in a letter to European Parliament
President Nicole Fontaine, President of the Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe Lord Russell Johnston and Secretary General
of the International Federation of Journalists Aidan White.
Cyprus has been divided into the Greek Cypriot and Turkish
Cypriot communities since 1974 when Turkey invaded and occupied the
northern third of the island after a failed pro-Athens coup in
Nicosia. In 1983 the Turkish Cypriots unilaterally declared a ...