Writing in his column in Turkish Cypriot daily Kibrisli newspaper, editor-in-chief Kartal Harman, reports that the groundbreaking ceremony for the biggest mosque in the occupied area of Cyprus will be held in June.
According to Harman the mosque will be built by the Near East University (YDU).
“It is obvious that some do not think that the 192 mosques which exist in the TRNC are enough”, he notes adding that “no one cares that the total number of our schools is 160".
According to Harman, one doctor equals to every 364 persons in the occupied area of Cyprus and one religious commissary for every 836 persons.
He says that there is one hospital for every 66.250 persons and one mosque for every 1380 persons. Harman points out that there are 187 villages in the occupied area of Cyprus and 192 mosques.
“How odd it is that in the ‘TRNC’, where the number of the schools is 160, the number of the mosques is higher than the schools”, he notes wondering why “YDU” wants to build a mosque and whether “some other persons” meet the cost of the investments made by “YDU”, whose name is often mentioned together with the one of Fethullah Gulen.
He also wonders whether there is a relation between the fact that students studying in “YDU’s” theology school are granted full scholarship and the interest of the illegal university to build a mosque