Word: cypriote
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your May 21 article concerning the Cypriot-British dispute was magnificent. Karaolis and Demetriou are heroes in the eyes of all freedom loving people of the world...
...British have long feared that if Greek Cypriot extremists keep throwing bombs, many among the 94,000 Turkish Cypriot minority who want no part of union with Greece will fight back. One night last week a masked gunman entered a coffee shop in the village of Polis, ordered a Turkish Moslem constable to rise, then shot him dead. The murder, which islanders attributed to the underground EOKA terrorists, set off a round of communal fighting. For three days knives flashed and stones flew as Turk fought Greek in ugly little scrimmages all over the island. Scores were hurt. Many Greek...
Many Britons asked themselves last week whether it was not time to go back and offer genuine democratic self-government to the Cypriots. Britain has long acknowledged that Cyprus is Greek; the great 19th century statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty...
...deportation of Archbishop Makarios and other Cypriot leaders by the British reminds one of Communist techniques in satellite countries. The extremes to which the British can go to hold on to the name of Empire is nauseating. In some cases, where the native people are really unable to govern themselves, colonialism could be excused for a time. But the Greeks can boast of the first and longest civilization in Europe...
Died. Spyridon Vlachlos, 82, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens and Primate of Greece since 1949, ten days after presiding at an emergency meeting of the ruling body of the Greek Church, which appealed to world religious organizations to back the cause of exiled Cypriot Archbishop Makarios; in Athens...