Makarios: a charismatic but destructive leader
By Christos Panayiotides Could it be, almost 40 years after his death, that the time has come to reassess Archbishop Makarios in an unemotional and...
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Our View: Greece takes responsible approach with toned down rhetoric
Back in the days of Archbishop Makarios, when Greece’s government refused to follow his scheming or back his political brinkmanship, unflattering reports would appear in...
Sirens sounded to mark coup anniversary
Sirens sounds at 8.20am on Sunday to remind Greek Cypriots of the start of the 1974 coup against President Makarios 44 years ago, which led...
Disciplinary inquiry into civil defence official’s coup praise
A civil defence officer is facing a disciplinary inquiry after he uploaded a post on his Facebook page praising the July 1974 coup against president...
We continue to look at our history through the prism of emotion
By George Koumoullis ONCE MORE, researcher and author, Antis Roditis, in an article titled Who remembers the abysmal mistake of 1964, which was published in...
‘Truth’ and its many faces: the art of spin doctoring
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...
Denktash statue vandalised for showing relief of Makarios
A statue of former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash in Istanbul’s Life Valley Park was vandalised on Monday after the local municipality came under severe...
The hilarious ironies within the Enosis vote debate
By Loucas Charalambous THIS BUSINESS about the decision of the House regarding the Enosis referendum has a funny side to it and is probably its...
Learning the lessons from our history
By Nicos Rossos Cyprus has no continuous history of its own, we were continuously conquered by the strongest powers in our area mainly for strategic...
Beware the Ides of July
Important comparisons can be made between the coup attempts on Makarios and Erdogan, not least their date. But while Makarios cleverly offered an olive branch...
Cyprus marks ‘black anniversary’
Cypriots and their leadership must all unite and work together in order to bring an end to the Turkish occupation of the island, President Nicos...
Cyprus marks July 1974 coup
The government on Sunday honoured the memory of those killed during the July 15, 1974 coup against the then President of the Republic, Archbishop Makarios....
Don’t look back, but look forward instead
IT MIGHT take a decade, but it is increasingly apparent that Cyprus is designated to become an important Middle East energy hub – intensification of...
The spirit of Makarios in Anastasiades
By Loucas Charalambous I MUST admit I quite enjoy the foolish arguments used by our politicians and journalists when they attack the English, the Americans,...
Cyprus and NATO – an old story
By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos I TOOK the cue to write the present article from information contained in the British foreign office documents which were made...
Turning the Cyprus problem industry on its head
By Stefanos Evripidou When the Roman Inquisition forced Galileo to denounce his defence of Copernicus’ theory that the earth moves around the sun, and not...
Nicosia begins radical pruning programme
By Constantinos Psillides Nicosia Municipality has begun a radical pruning programme along major roads in the capital in an attempt to limit damage caused by...
Funeral of long-serving presidential official
THE FUNERAL of Patroclos Stavrou – a close associate of Archbishop Makarios and a long-time fixture at the presidential palace – who died on Saturday...
1963 is still a historical minefield
By Elias Hazou THE FANATICS won: that’s the view shared by a growing number of modern historians and researchers on the outbreak of inter-communal violence...
