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Erdogan Blackmails Greece over Cyprus and the Reopeniong of the Theological School of Halki

ATHENS CONDEMNS ERDOGAN’S CYPRUS COMMENTS Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Greece is not doing it’s “duty” 2 Sep 2014 Athens reacted angrily to calls by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a “two-state” solution to the Cyprus problem and claims that Greece is not “doing its duty” as a guarantor power, saying the comments were “disappointing” and “simply confirm …

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Cyprus Saturation

The photographs accompanying this diatribe were taken last year by Turkish photographer Bastermur Bilal. They depict a couple of semi-nude stick figures attempting to assume languid attitudes of sensuous nonchalance. As such, they could be dismissed as yet another accretion to the derivative drivel that poses as art, if it were not for the context in which these were taken. …

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‘The Cypriot terrorist’

May 27, 2013 At least that was what her former husband Christopher Hitchens called her. THEO PANAYIDES meets a feisty lawyer with an ambivalent relationship with Cyprus As I sit in the waiting area I can hear a lawyer talking on the phone – a middle-aged woman, crisp and authoritative. “You’ll have to close up the building,” she tells her …

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THE IMF AND THE INCONSISTENCY ON CRIMEA AND CYPRUS POLICY

NO HEGEMONIC PEACE IN CYPRUS By Marios L. Evriviades VOLTAIRE NETWORK | ATHENS (GREECE) | 5 APRIL 2014 If NATO today trots out the principle of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty to condemn Russia, how come it doesn’t condemn Turkey when it comes to the territorial integrity and sovereignty that Cyprus is equally entitled to? Professor Marios L. Evriviades revisits the Turkish plan …

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