Cyprus Today under new ownership

CYPRUS As we speak, and the remainder of the Kıbrıs Media Group that it shaped a part of, is now beneath new possession.

This newspaper’s earlier proprietor, Asil Nadir, introduced in a “letter to the Turkish Cypriot public” printed on the entrance web page of Cyprus As we speak’s Turkish-language sister newspaper Kıbrıs on Wednesday, November 30, that the “time has come for me to go away the media world”.

He recalled how he established the corporate in 1989, with the primary situation of Kıbrıs hitting information stands on July 11, 1989. The primary situation of Cyprus As we speak adopted on October 12, 1991.

Referring to the investments he has made within the TRNC over years, Mr Nadir stated “each funding is a baton” that “must be handed from hand handy and carried additional and better”.

“With this understanding, Kıbrıs newspaper is on the verge of experiencing a change in a approach that can stay devoted to its existence and publication rules,” he wrote.

Mr Nadir, who was born in Lefke, continued: “As a baby of this land, I’ve at all times been positive that our folks can obtain success on a world scale.

“At one time, a good portion of just about each family’s earnings got here from our investments. This was not by chance. 

“Turkish Cypriot folks have been producing. Merchandise have been delivered to world markets. Turkish Cypriot producers have been taking pleasure in producing. Now, the time has come for me to go away the media world.

“Aiming past the borders of our nation, I’ll make investments and initiatives with larger financial objectives.

“On this context, we are going to see the exercise of my work, we are going to reap the rewards collectively, simply as has been the case because the Eighties.”

Mr Nadir additionally praised the assist of “our Motherland Turkey” for Turkish Cypriots.

He additionally stated that his “love for Cyprus has come at a heavy worth” and that he has “paid the worth” however has “no regrets”.

“Together with my spouse Nur, who has at all times supported me, so long as there may be life on this physique I’ll proceed to work for my nation, my folks and our kids,” he added. “I embrace you all with love and respect.”

The next day, Thursday, December 1, it was introduced on the entrance web page of Kıbrıs that Kıbrıs Media Group has been “absolutely included into the Kıbrıs Yeşil Vatan [Green Homeland] Media” group with an settlement and determination of the Broadcasting Excessive Council.

The announcement stated that Kıbrıs newspaper and its web site, Cyprus As we speak newspaper, Kıbrıs TV and Kıbrıs FM radio, which have been owned by AN Graphics and Yellowstone Printing, have now been taken over by Kıbrıs Yeşil Vatan Media Ltd on account of the settlement.

Businessman Fatih Büyüktopçu has grew to become the franchise proprietor of Kıbrıs Yeşil Vatan Media Ltd, with veteran Turkish Cypriot journalist Özer Kanlı appointed because the Common Coordinator of the media group.

An announcement from Mr Büyüktopçu stated: “As of November 29, 2022, we’re elated to incorporate all the Kıbrıs Media Group, owned by our well-known businessman Mr Asil Nadir, who has made vital contributions to the economic system and the media of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus together with his initiatives and investments, to Kıbrıs Yeşil Vatan Media Ltd. . . We might have shaped a brand new media group however we most popular to make an settlement with Kıbrıs Yayıncılık [Broadcasting] Ltd.”

Mr Büyüktopçu defined that the media shops established by the Kıbrıs Media Group are “treasures created and sustained by Turkish Cypriots” and that “our important intention is to hold the free and sovereign folks of our nation and their values ahead with out breaking away from the rules of peace and democracy”.

Mr Büyüktopçu continued: “We wholeheartedly consider that that the hardworking, educated, civilised Turkish Cypriot folks with excessive human potential, who’ve been struggling for existence and liberation for a few years and in the end succeeding in establishing their very own state, deserve one of the best management, essentially the most superior degree of prosperity and the very best high quality of life.

“Subsequently, with an perception that’s far faraway from industrial expectations, we are going to begin the required investments instantly and we are going to current our esteemed brothers and sisters with media organisations that you’ll respect and that we’ll add worth to as quickly as doable.”

Mr Büyüktopçu stated the principle goals of the Kıbrıs Yeşil Vatan Media Ltd might be to “introduce the folks of the TRNC to fashionable new media purposes; contribute to the cultural richness, training and pleasure of dwelling of Turkish Cypriots with our interactive broadcasts and publications; and create a democratic setting to speed up the Turkish Cypriot folks attaining the extent of recent improvement they deserve in each subject by guaranteeing the sharing of concepts, opinions, tasks and criticisms”.

He added “we would be the guardians of the constitutional rights of the folks of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” and that “we are going to at all times prioritise the pursuits of humanity on the whole and our nation particularly”.