Regardless of what might be said about Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, on certain points there are many commonalities in behaviours and mindsets. Such as, for example, how the media approach certain actions by those in their community’s leadership.
So we’ve seen cases in the free areas where meetings by the President of the Republic on Cyprus were bypassed by media outlets—not because they lacked the news element, but because that’s how they thought they were practising opposition. Something similar has been recorded in the occupied areas following Erhürman’s visit to New York and his meeting with the UN Secretary-General.
It should be noted that this was their first meeting, and that alone made it journalistically significant. The Turkish Cypriot newspaper Günеş, the mouthpiece of the National Unity Party, chose not to cover the Erhürman-Guterres meeting at all…
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