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the CYPRUS report: Through the Looking Glass:
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Saturday, July 15, 2006. Through the Looking Glass:. How Happy To Say I’m a Turk. Greek and Turkish Cypriots marked the anniversary of the division of the island in very different ways. This is the second story in a two-part series. From a Turkish Cypriot television advertisement before a protest in north Cyprus in the summer of 2005. Someone shrank the Turkish Cypriots. In 2004, which the Turkish Cypriots had overwhelmingly supported. Mdash;who long promoted the idea of a sep...
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the CYPRUS report: In Their Own Words: The Summer of Pathos
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Saturday, July 15, 2006. In Their Own Words: The Summer of Pathos. Three Cypriots remember the summer of 1974, when violence erupted on their island. Alliances were very confused. During the fighting in 1974. Greek colonels commanded the Greek Cypriot National Guard. A Paphiot village priest. Makarios, who was then the president of Cyprus. Here are three. Firsthand accounts from Cypriots—one Greek, one Turkish and one Maronite. A Greek Cypriot paramilitary group that tried to ...
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the CYPRUS report: Snapshot: Embargo This
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Sunday, January 29, 2006. Turkish Cypriot footballers strip to their socks, to protest their exclusion from international games. The photo op was organized by Embargoed, a Turkish Cypriot protest group. “Some people said it might be risky,” using male nudity to make a political point, said Ipek Ozerim, a London-based spokeswoman for the group. Cypriot society is fairly conservative. “But I’m sure the women will love it,” she quipped. Mdash;which to this day only Turkey has gra...
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the CYPRUS report: Icons, Copper and Conquest
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Tuesday, November 22, 2005. Icons, Copper and Conquest. For millenia, Cyprus was plundered and occupied by foreign powers. Self-rule is still a relative novelty. This is the second story in a three-part series. Part 3: The Cyprus Problem (1950 - 2003). APHRODITE SPRANG FROM THE SEA. Maronites still worship here, although it's now part of a Turkish Army base in North Cyprus. And paganism co-existed for centuries. By the 4th century,. The Roman overlords had placed. Pastiche of ...
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the CYPRUS report: Photo Essay: Missing in Plain Sight
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Sunday, November 26, 2006. Photo Essay: Missing in Plain Sight. Hundreds of Cypriots have been missing for decades on an island where grief is personal and. Hundreds of Cypriots vanished. In the two images that bookend this photo essay, the number of missing Greek Cypriots is given as either 1619 or 1602. Both figures are very far from the official count. Meanwhile, the missing have assumed a different political hue on the Turkish side of the island, where some people think of...
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the CYPRUS report: Who Are the Turkish Cypriots?
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Sunday, October 29, 2006. Who Are the Turkish Cypriots? Turkish Cypriots literally wrapped themselves in their flags, in a deceptively simple image. This image might almost convince you that Turkish Cypriots see themselves as the mirror image of Turks—but that would be a vast oversimplification. So who are the Turkish Cypriots? If only there were a straightforward answer. One reason that many Greek Cypriots gave for rejecting the Annan Plan. In Cyprus, I met with Mete Hatay, a...
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the CYPRUS report: Welcome to tCr
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Thursday, May 30, 2013. Perhaps no other scrap of land has been more contested since antiquity. Cyprus is a large island nestled between the coasts of Turkey and Lebanon, which has Greek origins dating back centuries. Cyprus was in the news recently, when it became the latest chapter in the creeping Eurozone jitters. Yet there was precious little mention in the recent coverage about the lingering "Cyprus problem.". Or as I refer to it, tCr. A Brief History of Cyprus. Cyprus jo...
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the CYPRUS report: The Cyprus Problem
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Thursday, November 24, 2005. There were 50 years between the first explosions and the last peace plan flop. And still no solution in sight. This is the final story in a three-part series. Were there from the start. When a Greek Orthodox bishop welcomed the first British governor to the island in 1878, the bishop told him that the Cypriots accepted the change. Or the union of Cyprus with Greece, would grow more persistent over the years. But Turkish Cypriots, who. Or “Nat...
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the CYPRUS report: In Her Own Words: Neshe Yashin
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Sunday, March 26, 2006. In Her Own Words: Neshe Yashin. She’s the first Turkish Cypriot to run for parliament on the Greek side of Cyprus since 1963. Neshe Yashin describes the new flow of ideas across the Green Line. Although the Annan Plan. Neshe Yashin, a Turkish Cypriot poet, professor. Mdash;and now a political candidate—lives on the Greek side of Cyprus. Although some are still restricted. Last summer, I spoke with Neshe Yashin. Rdquo; Ms. Yashin made history in Febr...
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the CYPRUS report: Snapshot: Nicosia Echoes
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Life beyond the GREEN line. Sunday, March 26, 2006. Mosques in both Greek and Turkish Nicosia issue the Muslim call to prayer. But who responds? THE MUEZZIN’S CRY,. Across the Green Line. The Ömeriye Camii was originally part of a 14th century Augustinian Monastery, before being converted to a mosque. It sits on a cobblestone square, across from Nicosia’s historic Turkish baths, which are also on the Greek side of the Green Line. Is traditionally in Arabic, no matter what the local language is. I've been...
