Nikos Anastasiades
Welcome to Nikos and Andros?
Many people were puzzled when Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavu?o?lu separately met in Istanbul with Andreas Kyprianou, the secretary-general of the Greek Cypriot Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL). Particularly, the very fact that the meeting came immediately after a landmark trilateral meeting of the two Cypriot leaders with the U.N.
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Trilateral meeting for Cyprus, finally...
Who managed to convince the Greek Cypriot leadership to drop its intransigence and agree to meet with the Turkish Cypriot leader in the presence of the U.N. secretary-general? Was it the Americans, or the British, or combined brinkmanship?
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The Davos encounter?
"The two communal leaders of Cyprus," I would say, but Greek Cypriots would bombard me with protest letters that Nikos Anastasiades was the "president" of the U.N. and EU-member Cyprus, not a communal leader with his buddy Mustafa Ak?nc?. Anyhow, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be meeting with the two on Jan.
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Church leader says Turkey’s aim to occupy Cyprus
Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos gave a Christmas sermon stating that the aim of Turkey is to occupy the whole of Cyprus. His message for all Christian churches of Cyprus described Turkey’s goal to govern all of Cyprus.
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Two leaders of Cyprus wish joint Happy New Year
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus have taken to the airwaves together to send out holiday wishes in both Greek and Turkish for the first time.
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March syndrome
Expectations are again building for a probable conclusion within a month or so of the talks aimed at creating a "bi-zonal and bi-communal federation" on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
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Russian jets granted use of Greek Cypriot airbase if in 'difficult situation'
Greek Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades has said Russian fighter jets in Syria could use military bases and other airports in Greek Cyprus if caught in a "difficult situation."
Progress reached in Cyprus peace talks, says UN's special advisor
The special adviser of the U.N. Secretary-General (SASG) on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, said after a meeting with Turkish Cypriot Leader Mustafa Ak?nc? on Nov. 24 that progress has been reached on a number of issues in recent peace talks. Eide was speaking a day before the two leaders from both sides of divided Cyprus were scheduled to meet in Nicosia as part of talks on Nov. 25.
Cypriot text books and the will for resolution
Nicos Katsourides, a senior member of the Greek Cypriot Progressive Party of the Working People (AKEL), let the cat out of the bag. "What's being achieved at the [intercommunal] talks is nothing further than a reaffirmation of the past convergences; in reality the talks have landed in a deadlock," the veteran politician said during an interview with the Alithia.
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Resolution or deception
It is as if a Cyprus settlement is completed and time has come to sell it to the people - and, of course, to the global sponsors who hopefully will finance its implementation.
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