Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012
The following is my translation of an interview with Mr. Meletios Apostolides, the Greek Cypriot architect whose family had been forced to abandon their house, orchard and land in Lapithos, north Cyprus in the wake of the Turkish military operation in 1974. Mr. Apostolides recently won the case against the Orams, a British couple who [...]
The British Court of Appeal (Civil Division) with its judgement in the Apostolides v Orams case (Case No: A2/2006/2114) on 19 January 2010 has created an unexpected new legal situation in the ongoing struggle in Cyprus between Greek-Cypriot owners of property who had been forced to flee in 1974 and whose land had been grabbed [...]
Perry Anderson | Acting in the Name of Integral Nationalism
Perry Anderson’s much anticipated book on Europe, New-Old World is available now from Verso, although it was supposed to be published in May 2009 it only became available in November. It’s a meditation on the history of the European community, not in the sense of the [...]
As another Summit has come and gone, and EU leaders continue to grapple with the issue of Turkey’s accession to the European Union, I want to focus on two related events that took place simultaneously in Turkey and Cyprus, towards the end of last week.
a. On the night of Thursday Dec. 10th, a very professional [...]
One of the most important items in the Brussels Agenda, during the meetings beginning today, Monday Dec. 7th, and due to conclude with the Friday Summit is the issue of Turkey’s possible future membership of the European Union.
Turkey’s relationship with the EU is, in the view of this writer, an absolutely crucial strategic item for [...]
