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Londra Gazete, 17 November 2022 LondraGazete.com/English 3

TRNC’s 39th anniversary

celebrated in London

THE 39th Anniversary of the es-
tablishment of the Turkish Repub-
lic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was
celebrated in London on Saturday in
central London.
The TRNC London Office held a
reception celebrating the 39th an-
Alevi community held protest niversary of its established special
guests include Turkey’s Ambassa-
outside Turkish Embassy in dor to London Ümit Yalçın, Turkish
Consul General Bekir Utku Atahan,

London including diplomats, heads and rep-
resentatives of non-governmental
organizations, well-known London
ALEVI organizations gathered Chairs Dilek İncedal and İbrahim businesspeople, academics and com-
together front of the Turkish Em- Has made spoke at the protest. munity members.
bassy in London, protesting the Saying, “We Alevis; Like Imam TRNC Representative Çimen Ke-
established a new public agency Hussein in Karbala, Hünkar in skin and TRNC Consuls greeted
to coordinate Alevi places of wor- Anatolia, Pir Sultan in Banaz, guests at the door before a minute
ship by the Turkish government. Shah Kalender in Nurhak, we nei- of silence was held and the Turkish
The British Alevi Federation ther give up our faith nor turn National Anthem played.
and the Cemevi together with a from our path. In her speech, Keskin said: “The
large number of people from the The Husseini stance inherited road to our independence has never
alevi community in London gath- from Karbala is our motto. been easy. We established our state
ered in front of the Turkish Em- For years, the political pow- 39 years ago on November 15, 1983.
bassy in London and protested er now has to see, understand The TRNC is a solid expression of the
against new agency. and apply this. There are Alevis, freedom and independence of the
Holding banners and signs Alevis are here and Alevism is a Turkish Cypriots. After the failure
with slogans such as "We will not right.” of past talks and the collapse of the national leading role, to bring a new anniversary of the Turkish Republic
be Alevis of the State", "We are After the speeches, a black Crans-Montana Conference in 2017, approach to Turkish Cypriots. Be- of Northern Cyprus, highlighting
Alevis, we are right, we will win", wreath was laid at the gate of the Turkish Cypriots took a stance in fa- fore I end my speech, I would like to Turkey’s support and reading a state-
adnd "Cemevi are our places of Turkish Embassy, accompanied vour of a two-state solution on the mention an important development. ment made by the Turkish foreign
worship" were chanted. BAF Co- by applause and slogans. island. In this context, we welcomed As our Foreign Minister Tahsin Er- office regarding the announcement
the call of the President of the Re- tuğruloğlu stated, it is a historic day. of TRNC’s new position as observer
public of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdo- TRNC has been accepted as an Ob- members within the Organization of
gan, at the last meeting of the United server Member of the Organization Turkic States.
Protests against LTNs in Nations, to “recognize the TRNC as of Turkic States. We express our grat- Yalçın who will be leaving his post
Haringey took place soon as possible”. We invite the en- itude to our homeland Turkey and to as Turkey’s Ambassador to London
at the end of the year also thanked
tire international community to see all members of this organization.”
the facts and bring a new approach Then Ambassador Yalçın also spoke the Turkish Cypriot community for
HARINGEY residents marched particularly along boundary roads on to the Cyprus issue. We expect the at the event celebrating the Republic their warm hospitably he has re-
against Low Traffic Neighbourhood the edges of the schemes. Thousands United Kingdom, which has an inter- Day and gave a speech on the 39th ceived during his time in London.
(LTN) on Monday, November 14. of people have signed petitions call-
Hundreds of people joined the ing for the LTNs to be removed.
demonstration walked the street in Councils across London have faced
Wood Green with the call to "take similar criticism following the intro- London boroughs where bills could hit
back our streets together". duction of LTNs, aiming to create
Taking part in the protects were safes and quite street for locates and
member of Day-Mer where hundreds improve air quality and reduce pol- £2,000 for first time next year
of residents express their against and lution. However many residents and
upset over the LTN scheme Haringey businesses have complained that the THE Chancellor has been warned vering, Sutton and Waltham Forest joined Kingston as the only London
Council has implemented. schemes have causes great problems council tax increases are "not an an- would go over £2,000 for the first councils to hit the figure.
The council hopes the LTNs will re- on the surrounding roads to this are- swer" as hundreds of thousands of time in April. Londoners also pay an average of
duce traffic and boost air quality, but as which has seen increase traffic and Londoners face £2,000 bills for the Last year payments for Band D £400 to City Hall, predominantly to
opponents claim they increase con- queuing only re-directing pollution first time. households in Harrow and Rich- fund the Met Police, which could also
gestion, journey times and pollution to this roads. Jeremy Hunt is expected to an- mond rose above the amount as they rise significantly.
nounce greater flexibility for town
halls to raise council tax in his au-
tumn statement on Thursday 17 No-
vember, with plans for 5 per cent ris-
es being discussed by the Treasury.
At present, councils cannot make
increases of more than 3 per cent,
including a 1 per cent precept to pay
for social care, without holding a lo-
cal referendum.
A 5 per cent rise would mean av-
erage bills in Bexley, Croydon, Ha-