Eastern Mediterranean
Serious Turkish provocation in Cyprus
By Dimitris Georgopoulos
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen joined the UK, France and the US in expressing disapproval of an assault on UN...
Provocation by Bahçeli: He wrote that “Cyprus is Turkish”
A series of provocative statements by Turkish and Turkish Cypriot officials in the aftermath of the attack on members of the UN peacekeeping team...
Pyla attack a challenge to status quo
By CM: Our View
August 20, 2023
The violent attack on Unficyp personnel in the buffer zone by Turkish Cypriot soldiers and policemen, some in plain...
Cyprus: Outrage Over Turkish Plans To Turn Historic Monastery Into Mosque
Plans by Turkish authorities to build a mosque at a historically significant Orthodox Christian monastery have rubbed salt in the island’s sectarian wounds, resulting...
Will Syriza survive? The Aegean crash test and the last chance...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
“In our time the national coincides with the popular and the popular with the national”
Dimitris Glynos,
"What is the EAM and what it...
NATO’s Prodigal Son Is Not Returning
By Selim Koru
Jul 31, 2023
NATO’s Vilnius summit appears to have gone well. To the delight of allies, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came out...
Solidarity with Soha Bechara: Lebanese resistance struggler detained and deported from...
We publish below the report of Samidoun on the expulsion of Soha Bechara. It needs to be corrected on one point. There was never...
Turkey as a Cyprus “Ghostbuster”
By Professor Marios L. Evriviades
Neapolis University, Pafos, Cyprus
The July 20th 1974 attack by NATO power Turkey, against Cyprus, succeeded in its military objective:...
Getting it Wrong: Fragments from a Cyprus Diary, 1964
Martin Packard
AuthorHouse, 2008
GETTING IT WRONG provides unique and critical reportage of events in Cyprus in early 1964. Circulation of an original report by Packard,...
Inside Britain’s military dictatorship in the Mediterranean
The UK retains two chunks of Cyprus for military and spying purposes, which are under the control of a Kafkaesque regime. Declassified went to...