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What hope is there if cannot even bear to teach the history, culture and language of the other community Excising references to Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, from ...

By Gwynne Dyer ‘Changed the world forever’ is the most hackneyed phrase in journalism, and if you can get through this week (the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks) without hearing ...

The first and most important lesson from Akis Tzohatzopoulos’ life is that power corrupts By Christos P Panayiotides On August 27, Akis Tzohatzopoulos passed away, at the age of 82. He was ...

Afghanistan withdrawal has strengthened rather than ended the West’s delusional thinking that led to the misbegotten adventure in the first place By Gwynne Dyer A man is sitting in ...

In the music for the film Zorba the Greek, Mikis Theodorakis, who died last week aged 96, produced a masterpiece that married music and character to perfection. Zorba, “Damn it boss, ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I needed a break from faithfully following the (literal) blood and guts of The Good Doctor so I clicked onto a series set ...

Capital markets and the insurance sector are becoming increasingly reluctant to fund and insure fossil fuels The oil and gas sector is undergoing permanent change brought about by a number ...

But revoking Cyprus passports of Turkish Cypriots was not the answer In a recent article of mine, I made the following important points concerning the 1974 Turkish military intervention: The 1974 coup, ...

Neither RoC nor EU citizenship is in the gift of the government of the RoC to give or withhold The decision of President Anastasiades to weaponise Republic of Cyprus passports ...

Violent Islamist movements, as current events in Afghanistan demonstrate, have had some success in Muslim countries that have been invaded by the United States. But they have failed everywhere else, ...

Elif Shafak’s latest novel focuses on Cypriot identity Elif Shafak is Turkish novelist who writes in English and Turkish and lives in London where she is free to express ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Flames and floods: a world dragging its heels on climate change is finally admitting something really serious is afoot. Once, when young ...

There are 150 new coal-fired plants under construction or already approved and funded in the world, so you can’t really say that we are taking global warming seriously yet. But ...

All the talk of tackling corruption in the lead up to May’s election has fallen silent The issue of corruption dominated the political scene during the long parliamentary pre-election ...

The Mediterranean will be particularly affected with higher summer temperatures, drought and fires says IPCC report The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a landmark report on ...

There’s something wrong when the street names of great philhellenes are replaced with those of lesser mortals When it comes to naming streets, we would expect them given in ...

By Gwynne Dyer “I will never kneel before such a destructive force (as the Taliban),” declared Ashraf Ghani, the soon-to-be-ex-president of Afghanistan. “We will either sit knee-to-knee for real negotiations ...

By Christos Panayiotides ‘They on that side and this side and we, somewhere else.’ I like this slogan, despite its bitterness. I like it because it condenses my fears and ...

By overturning a sham marriage decision this week, the Supreme Court proved itself independent of the executive in an area of law where the latter often rides roughshod over individual ...

At first I was going to write about the ‘Arab Problem’, because there is not a single functioning democracy in the Arab world. This week’s presidential coup in Tunisia ...

We can rediscover our common interests only after a reality check In the East Med we have been side-tracked by the fallacious promise or expectation of riches to come out ...

President Anastasiades has lost all credibility in his claimed commitment to a bizonal, bicommunal federation Aesop wrote that when, for the third time, the previously lying shepherd cried ‘Wolf! Wolf! ...

Following the announcement made by President Erdogan and the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on July 20, about the opening-up (on a “pilot” basis) of a small segment of the fenced-off ...

The healing process takes time, patience and pastures new As we are just into the silly season, when I allow myself to comment on comments, I shall answer Nazaret Shamilian’...