Famagustans: a craving for home
Militsa Popas Kleopas and her late husband, Popas Kleopas, were well known to all Famagustans. Now 95, Kleopas was 49 when she left Famagusta, on...
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Tracking down the music we made before we were divided
Two men have amassed a remarkable collection of music recorded by Greek and Turkish Cypriot musicians during the 1960s and early 70s By Lizzy...
Labour minister pledge to look into expanding benefits for 1974 combatants
Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou has promised to look into extending benefits to war combatants from 1974, after complaints that the honorary allowance is too low...
Akel calls for probe into ‘coupist’ bragging about 1974 involvement
MAIN opposition Akel has urged the police and the Attorney-general’s office to investigate claims by a former army officer who boasted during a spat on...
1974 POWs say government has gone back on benefits pledge
Prisoners of war from 1974 have accused the government of rejecting every application for the honorary allowances promised earlier this year, claiming the pledge was...
English School park to mark dead and missing pupils from 1974
By Lizzy Ioannidou A ‘memory park’ in honour of old English School graduates who died or went missing in 1974, 11 of whom have so...
‘No going back’: refugees remember 1974 flight
By Emilia Christofi A few clothes, sheets and a blanket for the parents, kids and grandparents were all that the suitcase could hold. Meanwhile Katia...
Photiou calls on Turkey to assume its responsibilities
Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said on Saturday that the most tragic aspect of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus 44 years ago was the issue of...
Military gear found at Noratlas site handed to National Guard
Military equipment and other findings located at the Makedonitissa military cemetery in Nicosia during excavations to unearth the remains of an aircraft carrying Greek commandos...
Identification of missing persons slowing down
Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Photis Photiou on Tuesday sounded the alarm to MPs on the slowdown in identifications of missing persons and called for a joint...
Committee to search for remains of missing in former landfill
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is to visit a former landfill in Dikomo in the north, where the remains of around 70 people from Assia,...
When lives were changed forever
On one level, Elias Pantelides’ new book ‘Laconic Tales – Cyprus 1974’ is a local variation on everyone remembering what they were doing the day...
News podcast: Writer recalls memories from 1974
The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local...
Cyprus marks 43 years since Turkish invasion
Cyprus marks on Thursday the 43rd anniversary of the 1974 Turkish invasion which resulted in the occupation of the island’s northern third, paying tribute to...
Diko cold-calling in hot water, data watchdog also a ‘victim’
DIKO leader Nicolas Papadopoulos’ presidential campaign may find itself in hot water as the office of the Personal Data Commissioner investigates complaints from several citizens...
Bodies of Greek soldiers downed in 1974 returned home
The remains of 16 Greek soldiers who died as a result of friendly fire in July 1974 were transferred to Greece on Tuesday after a...
Only survivor of doomed Noratlas mission dies
Thanasis Zafiriou, the only survivor from a Greek military transport plane shot down by friendly fire in Cyprus in July 1974, has died, it was...
€200,000 set aside to investigate 1974 missing
THE government has set aside an additional €200,000 for research into Greek Cypriot civilians missing since 1974, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday. He made...
DISY angers Christofias and provokes new outburst
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades and ruling DISY should focus on working towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, instead of attacking Demetris Christofias, the former president...
‘42 years of absurdity’ unmatched in history of the world
THERE will be no postern gates left open by anyone in this country, because history has taught us the harshest lesson, President Nicos Anastasiades said...
