At the doorstep of the third millennium, human rights and fundamental freedoms are massively, systematically and grossly violated in Cyprus by Turkey, as a result of Turkey’s aggression against the island in July 1974 and the continuing military occupation of 36% of its territory. Turkey has illegally proclaimed the occupied territory of the Republic of Cyprus as a “separate Turkish-Cypriot State” and demands a solution of the Cyprus issue based on such separation, contrary to international law, the resolutions of the United Nations and the relevant judgments of international and regional courts. The “Cyprus problem” is an issue of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all the citizens of the Republic of Cyprus and any solution must be based on the protection and respect of such rights and freedoms.
21/07/09_Adapted from The Pancyprian Association for the Protection of Human Rights
