I lived in Nicosia during my secondary school years. Our house was located in Kuchuk Kaimakli, right on the bypass. It was a typical one storey Cypriot House with a verandah at the front, erected on a almost half a donum, ie 7200 sq. ft. soil.
The secondary school I use to go with my bike every day was located near the Selimie mosque in the heart of the Nicosia old town. The building now is hosting the Ministry of Tourism. A beautiful, two storey building, walls made of sand stone with no gothic arches and the floors made of timber.
I knew by heart all the streets, short cuts, sandwich huts, shops selling cheap chocolates and play grounds in the area stretching from my home up to the secondary school. Half of this vast area was within the walls and...
The unplanned but precisely timed visit of Dr. Davutoglou, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, to Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus caused a political turbulence in the Greek side of Cyprus.
The UN acquis of Cyprus, produced with a fine work from the basics of the talks lasting since 1968, defines the target solution as “bi-zonal, bi-communal federation with political equality, as defined by relevant Security Council resolutions. This partnership will have a Federal Government with a single international personality, as well as a Turkish Cypriot Constituent State and a Greek Cypriot Constituent State, which will be of equal status”.
While Turkish Cypriot side is seeking and insisting on a Federation composed by two equal constituent st...
Accusing Turkey by invading Cyprus does not reflect the truth. Actually according to the international laws and item 4 of Addendum 1 to the Constitution of Republic of Cyprus gives the right to Turkey to intervene in case if the statue of the Republic changes. What Turkey did on July 20, 1974 was absolutely legal.
But no body and none of the text books mention the invasion of Cyprus by Greece illegally from January 1964 to December 1967.
The period between 1964 to 1974, called as “Dark Ages” by the Turkish Cypriots after the genocide they were faced with exerted by the Greek Cypriots.
Any documentation, book, novel, text book or anything written in any form mentioning, including or containing any information about t...
DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON
OTTOMAN AND GERMAN
POLITICAL MILITARY AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Ata Atun, Şükrü Server Aya
Near East University
NORTH CYPRUS and TURKEY
ata.atun@atun.com, ssaya@superonline.com
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to surf through history and emphasize some of the important events took place between the Ottoman Empire and German Kingdoms like Prussia, Kingdom of Bavaria up to t...
Translation: English-German
Unterschiedliche Meinungen über
die politisch-militärische und wirtschaftliche Beziehungen
zwischen den Osmanen und Deutschen
Ata Atun, Sükrü Server Aya
Near East Universität
Nord Zypern und Türkei
ata.atun@atun.com, ssaya@superonline.com
Zusammenfassung
Der Zweck dieser Arbeit ist es, durch das Durchforschen der Geschichte einige geschichtlich wichtige Ereignisse zwischen dem Osmanischen Reich und der Deutschen Königreiche, wie Preußen und Königreich Bayern bis zum Ende des 1.WK. zu bet...
