“Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens to derail Nato enlargement again”. That was the title of a Financial Times report that appeared in the online edition of the London newspaper in the evening of 30/06/2022. The report ends with what Toni Alaranta, a Turkey expert at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, wrote on Twitter in response to […]
Mohamed Amar Abara is a 67-year-old naturalised Greek citizen from Syria. He is the father of four children and has lived in Greece since 1987. At some stage, he went to Turkey on business and vanished and his family were desperately trying to find out what happened to him. About 40 days later, they were […]
The news site Pravda (www.pravda.ru) reports that “Russia may grant Turkey the status of a privileged partner” and that “will give Ankara an opportunity to increase its sales market”. According to the same source “Turkey is interested in scaling up its economy” and Russia “may offer Ankara a new market”. Although Turkey is unlikely to […]
A low-dose version of a Covid vaccine for five to 11-year-olds has just been approved for use in the UK after being deemed safe and effective. In particular, the UK regulator has approved the use of a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for 5 to 11-year olds. According to a press release issued on Wednesday (22/12/2021) by the […]
Substantial aid to help producers benefit from the halloumi PDO package by conforming to the relevant EU standards is included in the €30.7m action programme for the Turkish Cypriot community, which was adopted by the European Commission on 15/12/2021. “This support from the Aid Programme will include improving the food safety and hygiene standards, eradicating […]
In view of the available data the continued operation and planned expansion of the Edmonton Incinerator, euphemistically renamed at some stage as EcoPark or Edmonton EcoPark or London Ecopark, is in our opinion a crime against humanity. Protests against its expansion were still going on today (16/12/21) while seven councils in north London were expected […]
People usually talk about “the cold war years” as if the cold war is a thing of the past. News reports, on a daily basis and for quite some time, show that the opposite is the truth. In fact, the cold war does go on and has reached a very dangerous stage. Daily exchanges between […]
Sotiroula Charalambous, a former Labour Minister in the Christofias administration, was on 10-12-2021 elected new General Secretary of the Pancyprian Labour Federation (PEO), for the first time in its long history. She has also served as Akel MP and becomes the first woman to lead a labour federation in Cyprus. Her election came as the […]
The high number of buyers in the market, combined with a shortage of properties for sale, have pushed up the average cost of a UK home – but by how much? According to Zoopla “pent up demand triggered by the pandemic leads to the busiest market for more than a decade as one in every […]
“Over the coming months and years, the Federation needs to take vitally important and imaginative steps to renew and strengthen its structure and organisation and to become more representative of the British Cypriot communities it serves”. In our opinion, that was the most important statement made by Peter Droussiotis in his final speech as President […]
