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Editor’s Greetings
The Newsletter
Team
Introducing Kypros-Net
History
“Kypros”: The First Cypriot Newspaper
Ersi Demetriadou
Poetry
To Understand
Stathis Mavrotheris
Health
Viral Meningitis in Cyprus,
July-August 1996
Tassos Kyriakides
Economy
Interest Rate Move a Prelude
to Liberalization
Sofronis Clerides
Religion
If we ourselves don’t mourn,
others will mourn for us
Minos Orfanides with
Peter Gavriel
Environment
Sea Dissolution Brings Water
Solution
Nicos Nicolaou
Sports
Virgin trekking routes
Nicos Nicolaou
The World of Cyprus
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Editor’s
Greetings
Introducing “The
World of Cyprus”
It has been 23 years since Turkey
invaded Cyprus on the pretext of safeguarding the Turkish Cypriot community
and effected the partition of the island. The Turkish army of occupation
remains 30,000 strong to this day. The collaborationist regime in the occupied
territories has used this time to despoil what used to be the most prosperous
part of the island of all its resources, human and natural. The Greek Cypriots
were expelled, the Turkish Cypriots were dispersed, forests were set ablaze,
aquifers poisoned, and the evidence of 4,000 years of civilization dismantled
bit by bit and sold to foreign fences. In place of what used to be came
a squalid proving ground for the Turkish army, an open prison for Turkish
Cypriots, 80,000 Anatolian settlers, drug smugglers, criminals on the run
and gambling dens.
In the meantime, the free areas
of Cyprus prosper. Per capita income is surpassed only by Italy and France
in the Mediterranean. Civil society has taken root and flourished. The
sciences and the arts are cultivated and trade and industry vigorously
pursued.
Given this dichotomy in the realities
of Greek and Turkish Cypriots, can there be hope? The answer is a resounding,
unequivocal, Yes! It took almost half a century for the Soviet Army to
be dislodged from the Baltic States, annexed by the Soviet Union following
the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It will take less than a quarter for the Turkish
army to leave Cyprus.
Why this optimism? Because justice
eventually prevails. Because the generation that chose to hate, and indoctrinated
its offspring in hatred, is dying off, and their children are finding the
fruit of hatred bitter. As the generation that chose hatred departs the
division imposed by the Turkish army will go with it.
The World of Cyprus hopes to express
this optimism of renewal. It hopes to explore the past and present realities
of Cyprus objectively, always in the hope of the future. Welcome, and join
in the journey.
Peter Gavriel
Editor in Chief, “The World Of
Cyprus” |