Our View: Unearthed US telegram unfairly blames entitled youth for impasse
Easter Sunday was also the 18th anniversary of the 2004 referendum on the failed Annan plan, which normally passes without much ado except for some...
Annan Plan
Tatar says Turkish Cypriots were punished in wake of Annan plan
Turkish Cypriots were punished following the failure of the Annan Plan despite having voted in favour, the community’s leader Ersin Tatar said on the anniversary...
Greek Cypriots were right to smell a rat and vote no to the Annan plan
I must take issue with some of the assertions of George Koumoullis in his article titled ‘The Annan plan doesn’t look so bad now’, (Sunday...
The Annan plan doesn’t look so bad now
There are clear parallels between Cyprus now and Greece in 1922, but in Cyprus it was largely reversible When some were saying before the 2004...
Our View: Counting the ‘triumphs’ of rejecting the Annan plan
ALL the hardline parties marked the 16th anniversary of the resounding ‘no’ in the 2004 referendum, on Friday, repeating the well-worn platitudes about restoring the...
Our View: Anastasiades resorts to the tactics used against him
WE have come full circle when President Anastasiades resorts to the same intimidation tactics he was the target of some 14 years ago. Back then...
Our View: Fire and brimstone on referendum anniversary
All the political parties of the so-called centre issued fire and brimstone announcements on Tuesday, the 14th anniversary of the referendum on the Annan plan...
‘Greek Cypriots dodged a bullet’
Greek Cypriots dodged a bullet by rejecting the Annan plan in 2004, the more hardline parties on the Cyprus issue said on Tuesday, the 14th...
When the facts change I change my mind
By Alper Ali Riza The British economist John Maynard Keynes who predicted another war if the Allies imposed oppressive reparations on Germany after World War...
Ensuring past mistakes are not repeated
‘Repeatedly erring on the same issue is typical of unwise men.’ Paraphrasing the well-known ancient Greek dictum is intended to emphasise to the Greek Cypriot...
