Posts tagged with "Cyprus Problem"

No Plan B for Cyprus, British high commissioner says Cyprus

No Plan B for Cyprus, British high commissioner says

August 17th, 2018 There is no plan B for Cyprus, British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie said, urging Greek and Turkish Cypriots to resume reunification talks as soon as possible, as conditions were becoming more difficult with the passage of time. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency, Lillie said "division would be plan B and there isn`t a...
Cyprus wants to see change in Turkey's stance Cyprus

Cyprus wants to see change in Turkey's stance

August 16th, 2018 The Republic would like to see a change in Turkey’s stance as regards the Cyprus issue, so that the two communities can negotiate a solution that would end the Turkish occupation of part of the island, government spokesman, Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. As reports in the north said that next month all stakeholders involved...
The ruling class’ lukewarm approach to reunification Opinion

The ruling class’ lukewarm approach to reunification

August 12th, 2018 FOR SOME time now, I have been struggling to understand why the ruling class in Cyprus on both the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot side is lukewarm to the idea of reunifying the island. Logically, there is no doubt that both communities would be much better off operating within a federated state that forms part of the European...
Letter from America Opinion

Letter from America

July 29th, 2018 By Christos P. Panayiotides Nicos Stavrou Syrimis was born in Cyprus.  He was raised in France where his parents lived at the time but, intermittently, he also lived in Cyprus before moving on to Manchester, in the UK, for higher studies.  He lived and worked in the UK for 13 years before immigrating to California in 1984, where he...
How Cyprus paid the price of vague wording Opinion

How Cyprus paid the price of vague wording

July 29th, 2018 By George Koumoullis ALL the leaders of the so-called centre parties – more precisely extreme right-wing parties – claim that according to the Treaty of Guarantee, Turkey, one of the guarantor powers, did not have the right of unilateral military intervention. Aritcle IV of the Treaty, states that in the event of the...
Heeding Guterres’ call for a stronger role for civil society Opinion

Heeding Guterres’ call for a stronger role for civil society

July 22nd, 2018 By Costas Apostolides With the imminent arrival of Jane Holl Lute, the UN secretary-general’s envoy, all those active in furthering the peace settlement should get involved, including civil society. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his latest report on Cyprus to the UN Security Council last month stressed the importance of...
The EU’s role in cutting an unwelcome umbilical cord Opinion

The EU’s role in cutting an unwelcome umbilical cord

July 8th, 2018 A few Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have criticised my belief that the survival of Cyprus is conditional on severing the political umbilical cord that connects the island with Greece and Turkey. The Greek Cypriot critics claim my position implies a rejection of Greek ideals, shows an ignorance of Cyprus’ Greek heritage and...
The Dome hotel: a refuge in a time of war Cyprus

The Dome hotel: a refuge in a time of war

July 1st, 2018 By Rally Papageorgiou A new documentary on historic Dome hotel, long a Kyrenia landmark, tells a tale of glamour, war, loss and solidarity. Long famous for its receptions and tea parties, the Dome also became a refuge during times of war and continues to offer traditional hospitality by its present-day Turkish Cypriot employees...
Tourkosporos slur underlines need for school reform Opinion

Tourkosporos slur underlines need for school reform

July 1st, 2018 By George Koumoullis One of the most popular labels used by nationalists, conservatives and the clergy to describe those supporting rapprochement in articles, interviews or texts on social media is ‘Tourkosporos’. It means Turkish spawn. Looking up the definition of the word in a dictionary, we find two meanings, one literal...
Cyprus protests Turkish violations to the UN Cyprus

Cyprus protests Turkish violations to the UN

June 29th, 2018 Cyprus’ Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Kornelios Korneliou has strongly protested in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres the continuing infringements of international air traffic regulations and the violations of the national airspace and the territorial waters of Cyprus by Turkey and appealed for their...
Tourism weaknesses seen both sides of the line Opinion

Tourism weaknesses seen both sides of the line

June 10th, 2018 By Costas Apostolides It is sometime now since an analysis of tourism in Cyprus as a whole has been published, and in view of various alarmist reports south of the Green Line (GL), it is time to examine how the sector is developing in Cyprus as a whole. In 2016 Cyprus as a whole had almost 5 million visitors of whom 33% went north of...
General Basbug is honourable but he is also wrong Opinion

General Basbug is honourable but he is also wrong

June 10th, 2018 By Alper Ali Riza I RECENTLY developed an aversion to writing about the political problem in Cyprus but my writer’s block disappeared after I read comments made by retired General Ilker Basbug, the 26th Turkish Chief of Staff, that the treaty of guarantee concerning Cyprus was not a matter for the Turkish Cypriot leadership. He...
The end of the national dream Opinion

The end of the national dream

June 10th, 2018 By Christos P. Panayiotides I MUST admit that this is the first time that I have attempted to review a book.  The author of the book, titled ‘Cyprus 1950-1959: The End of the National Dream’, is Takis Hadjidemetriou and the publisher is Papazisis. The political events of the 1950’s and their consequences are set out in the...
Both sides must learn lessons from the past Letters

Both sides must learn lessons from the past

June 10th, 2018 For Mr George Koumoullis Dear Colleague, I have read your article on Eoka murderers, who still roam freely, boasting about how many Turkish Cypriots he killed in cold blood. Congratulations for taking up such a sensitive subject and criticising the authorities - police and judiciary, for not bringing them to justice.  Since so far...
‘No Cyprus problem if Turkey had not violated international law’ Cyprus

‘No Cyprus problem if Turkey had not violated international law’

May 18th, 2018 The Cyprus problem would not have arisen if the rules of international law had not been violated by Turkey, a Cypriot diplomat said addressing an open debate at the Security Council on upholding international law within the context of the maintenance of international peace and security. “In the case of Cyprus, if the rules of...
Turkey's Erdogan says has never given up on goal of joining EU Turkey

Turkey's Erdogan says has never given up on goal of joining EU

May 6th, 2018 Turkey has never given up its goal of joining the European Union, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday as he announced his manifesto for next month's snap elections. Speaking to thousands of supporters in Istanbul, Erdogan said that Ankara's counterparts in Europe did not show the same determination on the matter. Turkey began...
Statement by the Greek Turkish Forum Cyprus

Statement by the Greek Turkish Forum

May 1st, 2018 The Greek Turkish Forum (GTF) began its work in 1998, two years after the incident in the Aegean that brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of a war. With regular contacts even during the most challenging times and with concrete ideas and proposals, the GTF has contributed to a gradual rapprochement between the two countries. In...
Good reasons why the church should withdraw from politics Opinion

Good reasons why the church should withdraw from politics

April 29th, 2018 It is an undisputed fact that the Orthodox Church of Cyprus claims a protagonistic role in political life and seeks to promote its own views and positions by utilising all the means at its disposal: church influence, connections and economic power. The church’s involvement in the political affairs of Cyprus is nothing new of course....
With all due respect, Mr President Opinion

With all due respect, Mr President

April 1st, 2018 Dear Mr. President, LATELY, the voices, including those of old friends and supporters of yours, which claim you have abandoned the goal of reunifying Cyprus and that you have refocused your attention on the establishment of two independent states are multiplying to the point of concern. In my efforts to argue that these rumours are...
Collective psychotrauma and hydrocarbons Letters

Collective psychotrauma and hydrocarbons

March 18th, 2018 Collective psychotrauma is an event in collective life of a nation when all people experience common grief. Examples are wars, genocides, natural disasters etc. From psychological point of view collective psychotrauma works in the same way as individual psychotrauma does; painful experience creates a closed zone in the subconscious...
'Time for honest discussion between the two sides' Cyprus

'Time for honest discussion between the two sides'

March 4th, 2018 The time has come for the two sides to discuss what a bizonal bicommunal federation means to each of them, Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign affairs minister’ Kudret Ozersay said. Ozersay, in an interview with daily Politis, published on Sunday, reiterated the Turkish Cypriot side’s unwillingness to return to an open-ended procedure as...
Glimpses of the post-Cyprob future Opinion

Glimpses of the post-Cyprob future

March 4th, 2018 By Yiorgos Kakouris Had the sides succeeded during the talks in Crans-Montana last year, January’s elections could very well have been the country’s first federal elections. Instead, what happened was that the presidential elections in the south and the legislative elections in the north of the island were perhaps the first where...
Energy and Cyprus issue dominate Anastasiades’ contacts in Rome Cyprus

Energy and Cyprus issue dominate Anastasiades’ contacts in Rome

January 11th, 2018 By Peter Michael PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades was informed on recent discussions between his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan regarding the Cyprus issue, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Wednesday, during a press briefing at the 4th Southern EU Countries’ Summit in...
Wearing the masochist slur with pride CM Regular Columnist

Wearing the masochist slur with pride

December 31st, 2017   By George Koumoullis   WHEN anyone engages in self-criticism over the ways we have behaved over the last 60 to 70 years in terms of the Cyprus problem, a section of Greek Cypriots immediately dismisses this as “masochism” or “self-flagellation”. I cannot think of another democratic country in which...
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