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OIK Renamed Turkish Republic of North Cyprus
15.04.2006 00:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 4th conference of the
Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic
Conference (PUOIC) is being held is Istanbul.
Parliament heads of 48 member states are participating
in the 2-day conference initiated by the Grand Turkish
National Assembly. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan proposed the member states to join effort for
combating Islamic extremism and rhetorically called
upon the West to `overcome groundless Islamofobia.’
The Conference ended with the final manifesto issued
yesterday. Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Bulent Arinc,
in the statement he made after the closing, announced
that a draft to name Cyprus termed as “Cyprus Muslim
Turkish Society” in PUOIC as the “Cyprus Turkish
State” has been unanimously passed, reported Zaman daily.