"Turkish Cypriots vow to blitz London with ads
By Simon Bahceli
TURKISH Cypriots in both London and on the island vowed yesterday to step up efforts to promote tourism in the north, despite a recently imposed ban on Turkish Cypriot advertising by Transport for London (TfL).
TfL announced earlier this week it was banning advertisements for holidays in north Cyprus on buses and tubes in the British capital because they might cause offence to Greek Cypriots living there.
�We plan to fight this, not only in London, but all over the world,� Turkish Cypriot economy and tourism �minister� Dervish Deniz told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.
Deniz said he planned to do this through a �PR campaign� using worldwide mass media outlets, and would use his London office to �put pressure on the Greater London Authority� (GLA) to reverse the decision of the TfL.
Turkish Cypriot tourism operators took heart earlier this week from statements by a British High Commission spokesman in Cyprus that TfL�s decision to ban advertising of the north was in contravention of British policy of ending its economic isolation.
But while the ban still stands, the north says it is moving ahead in seeking other ways to promote its as yet miniscule tourism industry."
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