Basketball match banner ‘reflects a sad reality’
The banner unfurled at the basketball match between Greek club Panathinaikos and Israeli outfit Maccabi Tel Aviv in Nicosia reading 50 years of illegal occupation, no one forgets “reflects a sad ...
Turkish invasion: 50 years
Memories of a soldier: ‘I’ll never see the Stones live’
Kratinos Pyliotis, a 19-year-old National Guardsman in 1974, served at an artillery unit in Athalassa (known as 189MPP) and recounts his experience of the coup and invasion
July 15: I was threatened ...
turkish invasion: 50 years
UK ‘an hour away from war’: the battle for the airport
The battle for Nicosia airport wasn’t – objectively speaking – the bloodiest of the many dark events that took place exactly 50 years ago, but it may have been the most consequential.
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Turkish Invasion: 50 years
After we fled south ‘they treated us like kilindjiri’
The jets, the bombing, the perilous passage to safety with nothing more than what they were wearing, the pain of being separated from loved ones and torn from their homes ...