Recently, the Syrian Army has struck major successes in Aleppo. Once again the West plays down the Syrian victory against Islamic extremist rebels, revealing its real attitude towards the Syrian crisis. Western attempts to discredit the situation are intensified. The accusations against Damascus and Moscow about alleged regular air strikes…
Read MoreΤο Κυπριακό ζήτημα διήλθε απείρων στρεβλώσεων και έξωθεν κακοπροαίρετων παρεμβάσεων στην εβδομηντάχρονη του πορεία. Ως εκ τούτου ένα καθαρό ζήτημα εφαρμογής της αρχής της αυτοδιάθεσης μετετράπη σε θέμα διαμοιρασμού της εξουσίας μεταξύ της απόλυτης ελληνικής πλειοψηφίας των κατοίκων της νήσου με την μικρή αλλά στρατηγική Τουρκική μειονότητα – για την…
Read MoreThe 9th September Geneva agreement between the US and Russia on establishing a ceasefire in Syria, naturally raised expectations for fresh negotiations with the aim of launching political transition in the troubled West Asian country. Instead, in the couple of months since the promising Geneva accord on Syria we have…
Read MoreΘα έλεγε κανείς ότι η απασχόληση μας ως πολιτεία και δη πλήρες μέλος του ΟΗΕ και της ΕΕ με το θέμα των Βρετανικών Βάσεων (ΒΒ) είναι περιστασιακή, αποσπασματική και ασπόνδυλη. Αντικατοπτρίζει προφανώς τον τρόπο με τον οποίο χαράσσουμε ή ίσως δεν χαράσσουμε καν πολιτική, απλά αντιδρούμε περιστασιακά στις αυθαιρεσίες των…
Read MoreΤο πολιτικό θερμόμετρο άρχισε να ανεβαίνει εκ νέου στο νησί εν όψει των Δημοτικών εκλογών προσεχούς Δεκεμβρίου. Εδώ και δύο περίπου χρόνια με αρχή την υπόθεση ΣΑΠΑ στον Δήμο Πάφου μια σειρά από σκάνδαλα έχουν αποκαλυφθεί που εμπλέκουν τοπικές αρχές των μεγάλων δήμων της Κύπρου. (Μεγάλων βέβαια για τα δεδομένα…
Read MoreThe struggle in Syria against the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS or ISIS) has reached a new level. According to a recent agreement between Moscow and Tehran, Air and Space Forces of Russia are given the opportunity to use the Iranian Air Base Hamadan for strikes on positions and targets…
Read MoreProfessor Martin Blinkhorn, Lancaster University, UK, wrote the following in the very first paragraph of his Foreword for our book Cyprus: The Struggle for Self-Determination in the 1940s (Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Germany): Even as this introduction is being written (early July 2001), the continuing British military presence in…
Read MoreAs the forty second anniversary of the abominable days of the two-phased Turkish invasion (20 July – 16 August 1974) of Cyprus is only a breath away it is our duty to recall the long lasting wounds effected on the island courtesy of … the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) Attila…
Read MoreLast Monday 13 of June, as the hot Mediterranean summer working day was here in Lefkosia drawing to a close, we received another unexpected blow (?) to our international standing if not reputation: our top diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis was defeated in his bid to be elected President of the 71st…
Read MoreLandmark 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…
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