Posts tagged with "greek cypriots"

Clinging to hope as time runs out for finding Cyprus’ missing Cyprus

Clinging to hope as time runs out for finding Cyprus’ missing

April 28th, 2018 By Kyriaki Christodoulou Archaeologists from both sides of the Cyprus divide who work on exhumations with the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) are living in hope. They hope that more people will come forward with information on where remains might be buried, they hope that they can identify as many sets of remains as possible,...
Seeing ourselves as others see us Opinion

Seeing ourselves as others see us

January 28th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza It was Robert Burns night last Thursday. It is the night Scots drink a lot of whisky and address the haggis in the poetry of Scotland’s national bard in dialect. Would that Cyprus could boast a poet of such renown, one that people could call their own and recite in the Cypriot dialect with the same spirit of...
Suffering and loss should be beyond comparison Opinion

Suffering and loss should be beyond comparison

January 7th, 2018 By Gavin Jones How many times have we heard of someone having a hard time or a group of people being treated abominably? I would hazard a guess that the number runs into the hundreds, if not thousands. And by what yardstick do we measure the worthiness of each and every case? Is someone suffering from cancer more deserving of our...
Review begins into Turkey’s compliance with property-related ECHR judgments Cyprus

Review begins into Turkey’s compliance with property-related ECHR judgments

December 5th, 2017 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Tuesday embarked on a three-day review regarding the implementation of European Court judgments, among other rulings, in the case of Greek Cypriot properties in Cyprus. The 47 ministers’ deputies will review the property rights of displaced persons, a cluster of the “Cyprus v....
Greek Cypriots condemn UDI, as north celebrates (Updated) Cyprus

Greek Cypriots condemn UDI, as north celebrates (Updated)

November 15th, 2017   President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday strongly condemned the unilateral declaration of the Turkish Cypriot breakaway state in the north 34 years ago. Anastasiades said the action went against everything that had been agreed on the matter that formed the basis for a possible solution. In the north meanwhile, the...
The Russian connection Opinion

The Russian connection

November 5th, 2017 By Alper Ali Riza IN THE clash between democracy and oligarchy Cyprus has taken centre stage as Europe’s weakest link and Russia’s paradise island. Europe is democratic and Russia is still trying to come to terms with capitalism after the collapse of communism. The Russians were a long time coming but they are here now....
Sides missed historic opportunity to resolve division, Guterres says Cyprus

Sides missed historic opportunity to resolve division, Guterres says

October 3rd, 2017 A historic opportunity was missed in Switzerland to settle the Cyprus problem earlier this year, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, and it would take the strongest of will, determination, and mutual trust to resolve the matter in the future. “The parties had come close to reaching a strategic understanding on...
We should focus on reforging trust and a sense of security Cyprus

We should focus on reforging trust and a sense of security

July 30th, 2017 THE PREVAILING view is that the biggest obstacle to achieving a settlement is Turkey’s insistence on maintaining intervention rights and troops on the island. In the ongoing discussions of this difficult issue, the insecurity that would be felt by the overwhelming majority of the Turkish Cypriots – 90 per cent according to opinion...
We should no longer ignore the economic benefits of a solution Cyprus

We should no longer ignore the economic benefits of a solution

July 30th, 2017 The main failure of the Cypriot politics is that so many people on both sides of the dividing line in Cyprus either don’t support a solution, or they would like a solution but on ‘their own terms’. The Cyprus Problem has sadly been a convenient political game by Cypriot politicians, both Greek and Turkish. The status quo supports...
G/Cs don't mind troops, guarantees as long as they are not Turkish Cyprus

G/Cs don't mind troops, guarantees as long as they are not Turkish

July 27th, 2017 Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides sought to clarify on Thursday that the Greek Cypriot side only opposed maintaining Turkish troops and Turkish guarantees after a solution, and was not pushing for zero troops and guarantees, as was being suggested by the other side. “Our position is zero Turkish troops and zero Turkish...
‘Truth’ and its many faces: the art of spin doctoring Opinion

‘Truth’ and its many faces: the art of spin doctoring

July 16th, 2017 By Gavin Jones “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all its powers to...
Study finds Greek and Turkish Cypriots to be close genetically Cyprus

Study finds Greek and Turkish Cypriots to be close genetically

June 21st, 2017 Greek and Turkish Cypriots have more in common than meets the eye, as according to a new DNA study most of them come from a single paternal gene pool of local origin and have very close genetic affinity. The study, published in the scientific journal Plos One last week, found that Y-chromosomal analysis of Greek Cypriots reveals a...
The truths the hagiographies don’t tell Opinion

The truths the hagiographies don’t tell

June 18th, 2017 FRENCH World War I hero, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and our very own General George Grivas share many common characteristics. Starting with their appearance, they look very similar indeed – the same moustache, the same height, even their baldness and head shape were almost identical. But the most impressive similarities are their...
Ensuring past mistakes are not repeated CM Regular Columnist

Ensuring past mistakes are not repeated

June 18th, 2017 ‘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 side the need to avoid the mistakes of the past at the forthcoming critical meeting in Geneva and the referendum which may follow. Thirteen years ago, the Greek Cypriots...
The TV show we’ll never get to see: Turkish Cypriots on Cybc Cyprus

The TV show we’ll never get to see: Turkish Cypriots on Cybc

May 28th, 2017 TWO newspaper columnists have raised an extremely interesting point in recent days: the exclusion of Turkish Cypriot politicians from the Greek Cypriot media (particularly television and radio). First, Christos Panayiotides, in an article published in the Cyprus Mail on May 16, wrote that he could not understand why the media – ...
My kingdom is not of this world Opinion

My kingdom is not of this world

April 23rd, 2017 By Christos Liasides Christ’s advice was to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s WHAT else to say about Christ's sojourn on Earth after last week? His life, his teachings, his torture and crucifixion and his death on the cross are part of the historical Christ Last week I said I would deal with the importance to secularist...
Not even a child’s murder could make us work together Cyprus

Not even a child’s murder could make us work together

April 9th, 2017 European court ruling highlights worrying extent of bad faith between Cyprus and Turkey   By Alper Ali Riza Five top European judges decided this week that even the murder of a child could not persuade the Cypriot leaders to compromise and cooperate to bring her killers to justice. That is a measure of the difficult task...
Bicommunal hike around Cyprus’ coast Cyprus

Bicommunal hike around Cyprus’ coast

March 19th, 2017 By Annette Chrysostomou A group of four young Greek Cypriots is looking for Turkish Cypriots to join them in their attempt to hike the whole of Cyprus’ coastline. The initiative was started by two men and two women Greek Cypriots who are looking for six more people.  Four should be athletic young people to participate in the...
The risk of Cyprus being thrown out of the EU is visible Opinion

The risk of Cyprus being thrown out of the EU is visible

March 19th, 2017 By Christos P Panayiotides I am aware that a few readers of this article will seek to downgrade my concerns by calling me “an alarmist”.  I would say to them that identifying and assessing risks is a process that successful managers always go through when confronting serious problems. The president recently said that the...
Schools would never teach the true tragedy of Enosis Cyprus

Schools would never teach the true tragedy of Enosis

February 26th, 2017 IT SEEMS that in Cyprus we have become addicted to living on a knife’s edge of invasions (Turkish and Greek), of the Turkish army breathing down our necks, of tension in our relations with our Turkish Cypriot compatriots and of economic meltdowns. Confirming this addiction our (I avoid any adjective) deputies, carried away by the...
Why the majority want partition Opinion

Why the majority want partition

February 5th, 2017 IN HIS interview with Politis last Sunday, Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos said that some 1,500 houses owned by Turkish Cypriots had been given to Greek Cypriot refugees and non-refugees as holiday homes for ludicrous monthly rents of between 10 and 15 euro. His reference to an actor, “who had requested and had been granted a...
The four freedoms debate is not new Opinion

The four freedoms debate is not new

February 5th, 2017 Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkesh had no difficulty infuriating the Greek Cypriot public with his latest statements on the four freedoms for Turkish nationals in a re-united Cyprus. However, none of the issues he raised are new in the Cyprus peace talks or unresolvable. The fifth version of the Annan plan followed the...
Lessons from a strike 70 years ago Cyprus

Lessons from a strike 70 years ago

January 29th, 2017 A special event to commemorate the miners’ strike of 1948 takes place in Lefka in the north today as Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots get together to remember a watershed moment in history where the two communities worked together in a long and sustained fight for workers’ rights. Organisers hope that the event will serve as a...
Greek Cypriots in surrogacy case handed back Cyprus

Greek Cypriots in surrogacy case handed back

October 27th, 2016 Authorities in the north on Thursday handed over to Greek Cypriot police three Greek Cypriots and an Albanian national suspected of involvement in the alleged kidnapping of a 17-month-old baby. Arrangements were made by the United Nations to transfer the four into the custody of police in the south, at a location near the Ledra Palace...
The dilemma of the stolen car Opinion

The dilemma of the stolen car

October 9th, 2016 By Christos P. Panayiotides THE story which follows is real.  The setting is the city of Athens, in the 90's, and the protagonists are a couple of close friends, lawyers by profession, residing in the Greek capital, which, at the time, had been flooded by immigrants from various Eastern European countries. As one would expect,...
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