The problem in Cyprus is not finding a resolution to the over 50-year-old power sharing quagmire between the two peoples of the island but to pretend as if a solution is wanted by a certain date
The country has been passing through such horrible days that perhaps it would be great to have humorists occupying governmental seats
Over the next few weeks, there might be a radical reformatting of Turkish politics
A new but old page was opened in northern Cyprus during the weekend with UBP leader Hüseyin Özgürgün declaring that he has forged a coalition government with the DP-UG with the support of four independent deputies. It was a new page because the badly failed “grand coalition” government of the CTP and the UBP has been replaced with a new government
It has been a rather popular discussion for decades
When he triggered the current Cyprus problem in February 1962 by demanding the so-called 13-point amendment to the Cyprus Constitution, Archbishop Makarios was stressing something fundamental
Why did the left-right grand coalition of tiny Turkish Cyprus collapse?
It is quite difficult for foreign diplomats to make comments about affairs in the country where they are assigned
Those were very sad years. Presumably, the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh was against remaining within Azerbaijan and trying to “liberate” their enclave as a second Armenian state, if not achieving union with Armenia in one go
