Word: rauf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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 said, pausing to catch her breath at the border, "I feel strange and emotional." The most impenetrable barrier in Europe - complete with razor wire, U.N. peacekeepers and venomous graffiti...
...windows are covered with plastic taped to the frames. A small yellow bird, like a finch, known locally as a "taral hob" or the bird of love, is kept in a cage just outside. "When it dies we know we might too," says one of the men, Ali Rauf Noori. "There are no guarantees here in Chamchamal, that's why everyone has evacuated." These men sent their wives and children away, but still they don't feel their loved ones will be safe. "Everywhere is like Chamchamal, Saddam could attack us wherever he likes," says brother Latif Rauf Noori...
...first task is to appoint a prosecutor - a politically sensitive decision, since it is the prosecutor who will decide which cases the court pursues. Still Divided CYPRUS Talks aimed at reunifying the divided island before the Greek section joins the E.U. next year broke down when Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash rejected a U.N. power-sharing proposal, despite support for the plan from opposition parties and tens of thousands of Turkish Cypriots. Denktash insisted on formal recognition for the northern Turkish part of the island and objected to a requirement that he said "would force 100,000 Turkish Cypriots...
...communities can function under the plan." Once again, the U.N. may find itself embroiled in the endless politicking that plagues Cypriot peace initiatives. Last December, Cypriot leaders were given a choice: agree to the plan or be ostracized from the European Union. At the last minute, Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, who says the U.N. is trying to turn Cyprus into a "Greek island," was not present to sign the agreement - said to be because of illness - though Clerides was prepared to do the deal. Although Denktash's resistance is being weakened by protests at home and a loss...
CYPRUS People Power They came waving olive branches and E.U. flags and bearing a message for their longtime leader, Rauf Denktash: "We can't wait another 40 years." More than 50,000 Turkish Cypriots - a quarter of the island's Turkish population - crowded the streets of Nicosia demanding Denktash sign a U.N. peace deal to reunify Cyprus after 28 years and enable them to join the E.U., as Greek Cypriots are set to do in 2004. Under the plan, which U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says must be signed by Feb. 28, the two sides would come together...