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Akel: secret Ozersay-Anastasiades meeting was not just a social event (Updated)

Jean ChristouJune 19, 2019June 19, 2019

By Jean ChristouJune 19, 2019June 19, 201902273

Opposition Akel on Wednesday called on President Nicos Anastasiades to explain his meeting with Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay behind the back of Turkish

Cyprus

Overwhelming majority of Greek Cypriots not hopeful for solution

George PsyllidesApril 19, 2019April 19, 2019

By George PsyllidesApril 19, 2019April 19, 20190116

The majority of Greek Cypriots believe the Cyprus problem is no closer to being resolved now than it was last year although they would prefer

Cyprus Talks

Akinci: Turkish Cypriots the main victims of the status quo

Lizzy IoannidouDecember 31, 2018

By Lizzy IoannidouDecember 31, 2018067

The Turkish Cypriots are the only community working towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said in his New

Cyprus Talks

Walking on the razor’s edge

Christos PanayiotidesNovember 5, 2018November 5, 2018

By Christos PanayiotidesNovember 5, 2018November 5, 2018042

Interview with Toumazos Tsielepis, former member of the Greek Cypriot negotiating team Toumazos Tsielepis was born, in 1956, in the occupied village of Prastio (in

Cyprus Talks

‘World looks on in silence as Cyprus moves towards partition’

Andria KadesJune 5, 2018

By Andria KadesJune 5, 2018277 69

Cyprus is moving towards partition while the world looks on in silence, civil society groups from the island said on Tuesday. In a joint call,

Cyprus Talks

Siber says time to break the taboo and talk partition

Staff ReporterApril 29, 2018

By Staff ReporterApril 29, 2018137 25

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘House Speaker’ Sibel Siber added her voice to a growing number of politicians on the Turkish side that say a two-state solution

Opinion

Partition it is, though they dare not speak its name

CM Guest ColumnistFebruary 4, 2018February 4, 2018

By CM Guest ColumnistFebruary 4, 2018February 4, 201836 37

By Gavin Jones There is universal respect for the British sense of humour. Quite simply, it’s all in the words, timing and its mode of

Cyprus Talks

Concern over archbishop’s apparent support for partition

Jean ChristouNovember 29, 2017

By Jean ChristouNovember 29, 201738 27

Archbishop Chrysostomos on Wednesday defended his apparent support for a two-state solution in Cyprus, a day after coming under attack for referring to the

Our View

Our View: It is time partition entered public debate

CM: Our ViewNovember 12, 2017November 12, 2017

By CM: Our ViewNovember 12, 2017November 12, 2017201 29

IN AN interview he gave to Phileleftheros last Sunday, President Anastasiades was asked whether there was another path if the Cyprus problem could not be

Opinion

No to partition and no to enosis

Alper Ali RizaOctober 22, 2017October 22, 2017

By Alper Ali RizaOctober 22, 2017October 22, 201735 35

Like many politicians of his generation Jack Straw, Britain’s former Labour foreign secretary, who recently wrote an article in the Independent newspaper in support of

Cyprus

Labour MP says Straw was ‘ill informed’

George PsyllidesOctober 3, 2017

By George PsyllidesOctober 3, 201715 50

Britain’s Labour MP Bambos Charalambous has described an article by former British foreign secretary Jack Straw calling for the island’s partition as “ill-informed” and not

Cyprus Talks

UK’s former foreign minister calls for Cyprus’ partition

FORMER STAFFOctober 2, 2017

By FORMER STAFFOctober 2, 2017179 40

A negotiated solution to the Cyprus problem through the creation of a bizonal, bicommunal federation is impossible due to Greek Cypriot intransigence and the only

Opinion

Seventy years after India, Cyprus is on the road to partition

Alper Ali RizaAugust 20, 2017August 20, 2017

By Alper Ali RizaAugust 20, 2017August 20, 2017224 55

British India was partitioned 70 years ago at the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947. In the process a million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims

CM Regular Columnist

The fatal dangers of the status quo

George KoumoullisFebruary 12, 2017February 11, 2017

By George KoumoullisFebruary 12, 2017February 11, 201747 27

By George Koumoullis THE IMPRESSION that the status quo – that is, partition – was supported by a large number of Greek Cypriots because of

Opinion

Why the majority want partition

Loucas CharalambousFebruary 5, 2017February 4, 2017

By Loucas CharalambousFebruary 5, 2017February 4, 201750 320

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

Opinion

Concern over Republic a smokescreen for partition

Loucas CharalambousDecember 25, 2016December 24, 2016

By Loucas CharalambousDecember 25, 2016December 24, 201626 18

By Loucas Charalambous NOW THAT the rejectionist parties have decided to join forces in order to prevent a possible settlement of the Cyprus problem,

Opinion

The Plan B we might need to consider

CM Guest ColumnistSeptember 4, 2016November 1, 2016

By CM Guest ColumnistSeptember 4, 2016November 1, 2016145 16

If present talks for a Cyprus solution fail, the inevitable answer might have to be a negotiated division of the island By Andreas Tryfon On

Opinion

Our View: ‘Preserving the Republic’ rules out any possibility of a settlement

CM: Our ViewJuly 20, 2016November 3, 2016

By CM: Our ViewJuly 20, 2016November 3, 2016141 17

FEARING that their defiant but hollow rhetoric is no longer taken very seriously the so-called parties of the centre brought a US-based Greek academic to

CM Regular Columnist

The real message from the elections

Loucas CharalambousMay 29, 2016November 7, 2016

By Loucas CharalambousMay 29, 2016November 7, 201630 23

By Loucas Charalambous THE ATTEMPT of all those who, since Monday, have been trying to analyse the results of the parliamentary elections and identify the

Cyprus

Greek Cypriots ‘will never accept partition’

George PsyllidesJuly 21, 2014November 14, 2016

By George PsyllidesJuly 21, 2014November 14, 201641 22

By George Psyllides CYPRUS’ future would be brighter and more hopeful if obstacles were overcome and dividing lines wiped out through a federal republic, President