Alper Ali Riza

I don’t care what people call their national coffee so long as it tastes like Turkish coffee Apologies to Patroclos for encroaching on coffeeshop territory. I’ve been meaning ...

By Alper Ali Riza A friend emailed last week after reading my column about the candidature of the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades for president to remind me of the ...

The announcement in an article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday by the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades that he may run for president of the Republic of Cyprus in 2023 ...

The new cabinet does not have the intellectual and political heavyweights that Britain needs to carve out her new role after Brexit. Government reshuffles in Britain are as fascinating as ...

What hope is there if cannot even bear to teach the history, culture and language of the other community Excising references to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, from ...

In the music for the film Zorba the Greek, Mikis Theodorakis, who died last week aged 96, produced a masterpiece that married music and character to perfection. Zorba, “Damn it boss, ...

Neither RoC nor EU citizenship is in the gift of the government of the RoC to give or withhold The decision of President Anastasiades to weaponise Republic of Cyprus passports ...

Elif Shafak’s latest novel focuses on Cypriot identity Elif Shafak is Turkish novelist who writes in English and Turkish and lives in London where she is free to express ...

By overturning a sham marriage decision this week, the Supreme Court proved itself independent of the executive in an area of law where the latter often rides roughshod over individual ...

The healing process takes time, patience and pastures new As we are just into the silly season, when I allow myself to comment on comments, I shall answer Nazaret Shamilian’...

The importance of Cyprus to the Turks President Erdogan has been and gone. His visit was done to show the importance of Cyprus to the Turks, but that does not ...

Sirens are sounded in the Republic of Cyprus every year at the exact time President Makarios was overthrown on July 15, 1974. Makarios was receiving some Greek Egyptian children at the presidential ...

Where lives are at risk the state has a legal obligation to take measures to protect the public By Alper Ali Riza The legal obligation to wear a mask in ...

From Covid hypocrisy at the very top of government to a longed-for win over Germany Last week was an extraordinary week in England even in these extraordinary times. On Sunday ...

A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws and system of governance Searching ...

The European Championship 2020 is being played in 2021 for obvious reasons but better late than never. They did not augur well when Christian Eriksen of Denmark suffered a cardiac arrest in ...

Infringements highlighted by the EU over sale of golden passports may not be solid in law By Alper Ali Riza The golden passports scandal is a misnomer. A passport is ...

It was Labour’s prime minister Harold Wilson who coined the phrase, a week is a long time in politics. He was UK prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and then again ...

Eurovision is a shadow of its former self and that’s before we get to the UK entry By Alper Ali Riza For the UK to lose a Eurovision contest ...

Something must be done to right the wrong done to the Palestinians The Gaza Strip in Palestine is probably the worst defended territory in the world. It is under the ...

A whiff of corruption hangs over public life in Britain By Alper Ali Riza Former British prime minister Gordon Brown was absolutely right to observe last week that public office ...

Turkish Cypriots have a legitimate complaint they have not received equal attention from the EU’s institutions To square the circle is an impossibility in geometry but in politics it ...

It was well known that common ground was beyond the reach of the protagonists at the 5+1 conference on Cyprus. It was a fool’s errand, but it went ahead regardless ...

President Erdogan’s comments raise important issues concerning the independence of the judiciary and a conflict between Turkey’s responsibility for securing human rights in the north By Alper Ali ...