Posts tagged with "Cyprus Problem"

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...
George Vassiliou: the years of lost opportunities Cyprus

George Vassiliou: the years of lost opportunities

December 10th, 2017 Former president George Vassiliou has just published the second volume of his autobiography which covers the years he was in office, 1988-1993. He spoke to Christos Panayiotides on his own attempts to solve the Cyprus problem, the mistakes of previous political leaders and the options now available to Greek Cypriots In the second...
Greece, Turkey seek closer ties with Erdogan visit, but no quick fixes Greece

Greece, Turkey seek closer ties with Erdogan visit, but no quick fixes

December 6th, 2017 By Renee Maltezou and Orhan Coskun Turkish President Tayip Erdogan will make a historic visit to Greece this week, a sign that relations between the two countries are improving, although a long list of grievances remains on both sides. Erdogan visited Greece as prime minister, in 2004 and 2010, but he will be the first Turkish head...
Our View: It is time partition entered public debate Our View

Our View: It is time partition entered public debate

November 12th, 2017 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 solved. “There would have to be a sincere exchange with all the political forces to establish what would be the ‘plan B’ that would create conditions of peace, protect...
Our divided state is a troubled soul CM Regular Columnist

Our divided state is a troubled soul

October 29th, 2017 By Alper Ali Riza   R D Laing was a famous Scottish psychiatrist from Glasgow who wrote The Divided Self about the two selves that inhabit troubled souls: one, the real tormented self and the other, its false face presented to the world outside. According to Dr Laing when the real self breaks down the pretend world collapses...
No to partition and no to enosis Opinion

No to partition and no to enosis

October 22nd, 2017 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 the partition of Cyprus, used to be a Marxist when he was a student, and as every student of politics knows Karl Marx was not very good on prescription and neither is Jack...
House votes to support total Turkish troop withdrawal (Updated) Cyprus

House votes to support total Turkish troop withdrawal (Updated)

October 13th, 2017 The House plenum on Friday approved a motion by the Green party for a resolution stipulating that any solution to the Cyprus problem should not include foreign guarantees, troops or intervention rights in any form. The resolution also demands total withdrawal of Turkish troops from the island with a view to full...
Cyprus solution is up to the parties - UN Spokesman Cyprus Talks

Cyprus solution is up to the parties - UN Spokesman

October 7th, 2017 The solution of the Cyprus problem is up to the parties, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary General, has said, noting that the UN have provided their good offices and that the UN chief’s views are well known. Asked to clarify a response he gave yesterday regarding statements by the so-called foreign minister of the...
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 are all Cosmopolitans  Opinion

We are all Cosmopolitans 

September 24th, 2017 By Alper Ali Riza Until my old philosopher friend Dr Edward Spence suggested I write about being cosmopolitan, the only link between Cyprus and the word cosmopolitan was a nightclub in Nicosia I used to frequent in the late 60s when I used to go clubbing. If memory serves it was an old-style detached family home that had been...
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