The women members of SIDIKEK, which is an associate of the South Cyprus Worker’s Federation and organized at the municipalities and public economic enterprises, realized a visit to the  NTM and had a meeting with the Town Clerk Ali Önöz  today (05-03-09) for the “8th March World Women’s Day”

The Head of the Municipal Workers Labor Union (BES) Birtan Aktolga and the General Secretary of SIDEKEK-PEO Adamos Andreou were present at the visit.

During the visit of the labor members,  the NTM Town Clerk Ali Önöz denoted that women and men are equal according to the law but enough opportunity is not given to women to use their rights. Stating that women should claim their own rights, Ali Önöz   said “Rights cannot be taken for granted; they can only be acquired”

Sıdal: “Our joint organizations will continue”
The general secretary of SIDIKEK-PEO Adamos Andreou stated that SIDIKEK and PEO are organizing joint events for almost over 20 years and told that these works will surely continue in the future periods.

The Head of the Foreign Relations of BES Gülev Sıdal said that the event which is organized by PEO and BES because of  “8th March World Women’s Day”, will continue with other activities on future days. Explaining that within the framework of the organization they will visit several women at their offices, Sıdal said that “Half of the world population consists of women. But today, even if half of the population consists of women, we are not sharing the management equally.

Carnations have been distributed to the women

SIDIKEK member Andry Demetriov denoted that bi-communal activities provide Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots with an opportunity to understand each other.

After the talks, BES and SIDIKEK members distributed carnations to all the women staff of the NTM.