Landmark events of the past should be remembered or even commemorated if they bear direct significance to the present and serve as an indicator to future calamities. For the scholars of Greco-Turkish relations today is a landmark event. On this day 19th of May in 1919, two parallel events took…
Read MoreHaving outlined the sad historical background of the denial of implementation of the core UN principles of equal rights and of self-determination for the people of Cyprus in our Victory Day anniversary analysis (9 May 2016), it is necessary to take a look at the current state of affairs with…
Read MoreToday marks the anniversary of the defeat of Nazism. The 9th of May 1945, Victory Day, marks the date Nazi Germany, bent on subjugating the whole world, was utterly defeated by the Allied Powers. The latter through their commitments signed under both the Atlantic (1941) and the UN Charter (1945)…
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