Cyprus that is located in Eastern Mediterranean has a great strategic importance for European countries as much as other North Africa and Middle East have. Sovereign states made big wars especially to keep the artery of commerce under control and the island was occupied by so many forces throughout the history. Cyprus that consistently passed [...]

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A group of 200 Turkish intellectuals is tackling one of the great taboos of Turkish society — the 1916 massacres of Armenians in the country.
A group of writers, journalists and academics, many of them prominent members in their fields, has posted [...]

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Belcikada neler oluyor? Asagida gelen Türkce ve Ingilizce e-postalari dikkatlere sakince okumak amaci ile sunuyoruz. Asagida yazi ‚dogrular ile yanlislarin birbirine karistirildigi’ va amaci karalama ve camaura cekme girisimi olan bir propaganda calismasi olabilri. Dogru ise cok üzücü bir gelisme ile karsi, karsiyayiz. Asgidaki yazi Türkce ve Ingilizce AB ülkelerinin her tarafina yollandigini tahmin ediyoruz! [...]

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ATAA to Screen Award-winning Cyprus Missing Persons Documentary,”The Vanished Bus”
ATAA is pleased to announce the screening of the award-winning Turkish Cypriot documentary, “The Vanished Bus” (Kayıp Otobüs), at the Turkish House in Dupont Circle on Friday, December 5, 2008, 7pm.
“Kayıp Otobüs” investigates the 1964 kidnapping and massacre of 40 Turkish Cypriot workers, whose lives came [...]

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Turkey: Blocking Cyprus Cooperation With NATO
November 7, 2008

Turkey on Nov. 6 rejected EU proposals for ways to move forward with a deadlocked plan for Cyprus to participate in NATO-led military operations, Hurriyet reported Nov. 7, citing French Foreign Ministry political director Gerard Araud. Turkey said it is does not oppose cooperation [...]

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AVUSTURALYADAKI UYELERIMIZ : TEPKI VERILMESI GEREKEN BIR KARALAMA YAZISI
 
For comments: kalymnios@hotmail.com
 
1922: THE HOLOCAUST OF SMYRNA
by Australian Macedonian Advisory Council
October 15, 2008
 ”We didn´t know how and we didn´t know why. All we knew was that they were coming. People were streaming in from the interior, their clothes in tatters, telling gruesome stories of the horrors that [...]

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BRUSSELS, Belgium: The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians urged the European Union on Wednesday to take on Turkey as a member if it improves democratic and human rights standards.
“Europe needs to bring Turkey into its project,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I told the European Parliament.
“What I and the majority of the people of Turkey wish is [...]

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September 23, 2008
 

Nurten Ural, President, ATAA
Gunay Evinch, President-Elect, ATAA
assembly@ataa.org

 
GREEK VIOLATIONS DURING THE GREEK MILITARY INVASION
IN 1919 AND THE GREEK RETREAT IN 1922

THE INTER-ALLIED CONDEMNATION OF GREECE
 
I. Introduction:
The Greek military invasion and occupation of western Anatolia (1919-22) is a difficult memory for both Turks and Greeks, and a source of friction and, sometimes, animosity in the [...]

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TURKEY SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO ARMENIANS
http://www.azg.am/EN/2008091002

Volkan Vural, who was the Turkish Ambassador to the USSR during the years of collapse of the latter announced during an interview by Turkish “Taraf” newspaper’s correspondent that Turkey should apologize to Armenians for the incidents of the past.
He mentioned that Turkish President’s visit to Yerevan at the invitation of the [...]

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The late President Makarios, who died on this day in 1977, did not leave a memoir or diaries, so this interview with the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci stands as one of the more revealing published conversations with the archbishop and president.
Oriana Fallaci was a well known writer and columnist and a former partisan during World [...]

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