"Spinning the Turkish Cypriot cause in the UK
By Simon Bahceli
A YOUNG, attractive and impressively energetic Turkish Cypriot woman bursts into a boardroom in a dauntingly prestigious advertising agency in London’s Soho Square. Out of breath, she informs the lawyers, academics and myself that the seminar is about to begin.
Filing into a larger and plusher boardroom, we meet the BBC’s James Robbins. He will chair the seminar aimed at telling journalists and British political figures the problems currently faced by the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus. Dark-suited men and women from the Foreign Office look on and take notes as Robbins, in clipped and eloquent BBC English, introduces the guest speakers. "
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