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Annan's Deadline CYPRUS Reviving hopes of an end to the island's 30-year division, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan invited Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders to New York City for new talks this week. Officials from both sides tentatively agreed to attend. Annan wants each side to hold a referendum on his reunification plan in April, allowing a unified Cyprus to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 2/8/2004 | See Source »

...homes at the center of the scandal; a popular TV celebrity; a comedian; and a former ambassador. Socialist lawmaker Paulo Pedroso, who was released from prison two months ago on procedural grounds, was rearrested and charged. The accused deny the charges. No Time to Lose CYPRUS Turkish Cypriots inched closer to an agreement to reunite the island when veteran leader Rauf Denktash, who's resolutely opposed reunification, handed his rival Mehmet Ali Talat, who favors a deal, the task of forming a new government after last month's elections. Talat's priority is to restart stalled peace talks with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 1/4/2004 | See Source »

...five used by senior state officials and foreign dignitaries. Will They or Won't They? CYPRUS Election fever mounted in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in advance of Sunday's parliamentary polls - which many believe are the last, best hope for reunification with the Greek-Cypriot south after 29 years of separation. Leader Rauf Denktash faced a strong challenge from opposition chief Mehmet Ali Talat, whose Republican Turkish Party has vowed to bring Northern Cyprus into the E.U. along with the south in May of next year. Denktash has agreed to step down as chief negotiator in peace talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

...Denktash, the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Democrat Party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Despite the fancy job titles, to most residents of the divided island he is far better known as the son of Rauf Denktash, the rotund septuagenarian President who has dominated Turkish Cypriot politics for nearly half a century. Rauf is still the most important Denktash on Cyprus, but the son may be rising. Serdar, 44, worked behind the scenes this spring to secure the opening of the heavily fortified "green line" that has split the island since 1974 - the most significant breakthrough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End Of The Line | 6/15/2003 | See Source »

...Stubborn Wall Melts Away CYPRUS One morning last week, Tina Pantakis, a pensioner from the Greek Cypriot town of Limassol, dressed in her Sunday best and rummaged through old photographs. She was looking for pictures of her ancestral village, Vassilia, which she had not seen in nearly 30 years. She wanted to be sure she recognized it. Pantakis was among more than 10,000 Greek and Turkish Cypriots who last week took advantage of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash's surprise decision to open the border that has divided the island since 1974. "Now that it is finally happening," Pantakis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 4/27/2003 | See Source »

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