Fahri Zihni

According to Google maps, the Ledra Palace hotel in the buffer zone in Nicosia is a nine-minute drive from the Greek Cypriot leader’s workplace, and an eight-minute walk from ...

Today, GwikiLeaks issued transcripts of hundreds of pages of extraordinary secret conversations between Sonic Christofoolides and Resin Tartar, leaders of the two Cypress communities. These reveal a surprising level of ...

Earlier this month, the European Commission adopted the “2024 Annual Action Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community to facilitate Cyprus’ reunification and to support the socio-economic development of the community”. But 20 ...

Now that the bronze, silver and gold dust has settled, we can perhaps reflect on the Paris Olympics 2024.  The Olympic games are a gift to us all from the ancient ...

In December 2023, I wrote an article about the Israel-Palestine conflict which reflected many people’s abhorrence of the murder and abductions of innocent Israeli civilians when the Hamas militia launched ...

I am with Maria Angela Holguin, personal envoy of the UN secretary-general all the way with her almost poetic open letter to the people of Cyprus about the 60+ year old “...

Unficyp should have asked Turkey and UK to foot their bill as well as Cyprus and Greece By Fahri Zihni The United Nations (UN) has three key principles for its ...

The Annan experience was devastating for Turkish Cypriots. Who can blame them for being cynical about future talks? If we take August 1960 as the year of the shotgun wedding between ...

Nonsense to suggest Israel is fighting an existential war By Fahri Zihni The mediaeval Islamic cleric and wiseman Nasreddin Hodja’s fables and parables, which have evolved over centuries have ...

By Fahri Zihni It is now the 60th anniversary of the Turkish Cypriot community being subjected to social and economic embargoes. Yes, 60, not 50 years. These have been implemented through the ...

And perhaps she should encourage both sides to consider the two-state solution By Fahri Zihni The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin arrived in Cyprus last ...

A new announcement by Special Representative Colon Straightup of Ununited Nations Farce Institute of Cyprus (UNFICYP) By Fahri Zihni Cypriots have a proud history of extraordinary théâtre de la ...

But in Cyprus we must learn to forgive By Fahri Zihni Many people have a conflicting diary of events. For example, the birthday of a young child may fall close ...

Traditional island festive sweet Turkish Cypriot Ekmek kadeyifi (Bread kadeyif) This recipe is for a pair of circular rusks which can be bought from a Turkish Cypriot bakery in one ...

By Fahri Zihni Of course, all lives matter. All human rights, including the ultimate right to life itself apply to all humans irrespective of race, religion, or any other human ...

By Fahri Zihni I expressed some concerns about the “statement of common understanding” and how it is being managed by Unficyp in relation to the building of a road between ...

After 60 years of separation between the two Cypriot sides, a federal solution is a high-risk objective By Fahri Zihni The last time a framework statement of “common understanding” was agreed ...

Unficyp has allowed plenty of Greek Cypriot building in buffer zone, Turkish Cypriots argue By Fahri Zihni Following the Pile (Pyla)-United Nations incident on August 18, when the building of ...

A divided Cyprus cannot really heal without a process of reconciliation By Fahri Zihni The 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson wrote “among the calamities of war may be jointly ...

And the church’s role in schools ensures it will stay that way By Fahri Zihni My late mother was born in the village of Tera, Paphos in 1924 to a ...

The EU has claimed that halloumi/hellim production will form a ‘mini-reunification laboratory’. There is no sign of that yet By Fahri Zihni The much loved hellim/halloumi is perhaps ...

We made a mint from our cheese of white gold until the Hell-Loonies and the Eyu had their say By Fahri Zihni Hail-Umi, the goddess of creation, knew she had ...

Turkish Cypriots know only too well the fate of their hellim/halloumi. They fear it will join a long list of other products the government of the Republic gets to ...