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[borischelski]

I have just returned from a weeks holiday in the North , having previously visited the South last year and have become fascinated to understand more about what appears to be universally described as the "Cyprus problem"

Please can someone advise me of an appropriate starting book , which whilst "impartial" , provides an overview of the whole issue together but also includes views and opinions from both sides ?

Any advice appreciated !

Regards

[Kifeas]

I have just returned from a weeks holiday in the North , having previously visited the South last year and have become fascinated to understand more about what appears to be universally described as the "Cyprus problem"

Please can someone advise me of an appropriate starting book , which whilst "impartial" , provides an overview of the whole issue together but also includes views and opinions from both sides ?

Any advice appreciated !

Regards

A fairly good start up is this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Cyprus-Conspiracy ... 1860647375

[Viewpoint]

borischelski try this site as well www.cyprus-conflict.net/Table%20of%20Contents.htm

[Ezis]

Check this out ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_problem

If I were you borischlski ,, I would do some research on this over the net .. and read different material written by different people Turkish and Cypriot and Neither ...

Coz as you know this a big conflict ,, and as you said u need to get info from both sides .. I add to it .. neutral side as a third ..
Cheers

[MR-from-NG]

Cyprus Mail on line edition is a good source for impartial opinion on the Cyprob. Below is an example.



EMBARGOES ON EDUCATION: I find it hard to believe how much government has changed in just four years in Cyprus. A couple of years ago the Rector of Cyprus University was on a TV show indicating that there should be more dialogue between academics– he even contemplated some form of teaching exchanges between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
So it’s disappointing to share with you an email that I got last week, on headed note paper, which was sent to all the institutions in tertiary education. The email urged all of us, with The Ministry’s blessing, to be aware that a delegation from EMU would be attending a conference in Barcelona, and that it was our duty if we were attending, to point out that EMU is a ‘pseudo-university’.

Effectively this document called for blocking the delegation from EMU from taking part – although it was not explained how academics were supposed to do this – beyond the use of pointless name calling like ‘pseudo-university’.

It is a little bit confusing, however, as successive governments of the Republic of Cyprus have declared to the international community and the EU our partners in particular that there is no official embargo against Turkish Cypriots. Naturally the fall out, which is to be expected, gives the impression that there is an embargo against Turkish Cypriots, something which is gaining more and more momentum the more hard-line and rejectionists our leadership becomes.
Before anyone says I am advocating recognition of the ‘TRNC’ – and I want to state categorically that I am not – what I am against is the pointless, dead-end policy of a government that is isolating Turkish Cypriots further as each day passes.

This process has the knock-on effect of alienating the Republic of Cyprus even further. It paints us as this negative force, which patrols the globe championing the cause of our existence. We never consider the other side of the coin in a substantive manner: namely the non-existence or absence of our Turkish Cypriot compatriots in our equations.
As time passes, and with so many missed opportunities at reaching a settlement, the equation becomes a worn out clich? and our cause will be overtaken by the demand to end the isolation of Turkish Cypriots.

[iceman]

I have just returned from a weeks holiday in the North , having previously visited the South last year and have become fascinated to understand more about what appears to be universally described as the "Cyprus problem"

Please can someone advise me of an appropriate starting book , which whilst "impartial" , provides an overview of the whole issue together but also includes views and opinions from both sides ?

Any advice appreciated !

Regards

Try Echoes from the Dead Zone: Across the Cyprus Divide by Yiannis Papadakis


Synopsis
In the space of a generation, Cyprus - the island of Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love - has experienced an anti-colonial struggle, post-colonial chaos, internecine fighting and hatred, civil war, invasion, population displacements and physical partition. The narrative of Cyprus' recent history has created numerous attitudes and prejudices which run deep but which have never before been explored on a human level. Now for the first time Yiannis Papadakis, firmly planted in the Greek Cypriot world, sets out to discover 'The Other' - the much maligned Turks. Papadakis decided with some trepidation to travek to Constantinople (to his Greek worldview it was still Constantinople) to learn Turkish. There he discovered that actually it is Istanbul, and that Turkey is not the place of his once imagined demonology. Armed with new insights he returned to Cyprus and delved into the two communities, locked in their mutually contemptuous embrace, to explore their common humanity and to understand what has divided them. He focused on Nicosia where the people who used to live together in one neighbourhood found themselves separated by a 'Dead Zone', two armies and a UN force. His was a journey to the various sides of the Dead Zone and to the various zones of the dead, the realms of memory and history. This book is the moving, sometimes humorous and always fascinating account of that journey.

From the Publisher
-Highly topical in the context of Cyprus and the EU
-An approach on the Cyprus question never before attempted
-Beautifully and amusingly written

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-Dead-Zone-Across-Cyprus/dp/185043428X

[denizaksulu]

Borischelski, you dont need a book. Stick to this forum, listen to both sides and draw a line down the middle. The truth is somewhere there.

[borischelski]

Many thanks for such swift advice !

I was tempted by a book of the same name by Dr Latife Birgen but thought I would seek feedback on other material before dipping a toe in the water.....

[EPSILON]

I have just returned from a weeks holiday in the North , having previously visited the South last year and have become fascinated to understand more about what appears to be universally described as the "Cyprus problem"

Please can someone advise me of an appropriate starting book , which whilst "impartial" , provides an overview of the whole issue together but also includes views and opinions from both sides ?

Any advice appreciated !

Regards

Do not spend so much time the case is simple . There are two nations- Greek and Turkish. they are playing a game to pove who is the most clever and powerfull.

For the last 40 years Turks winning the game clearly but the real problem starts on the basis Greeks still consider that the game is between some other people who named them "Cypriots."

[denizaksulu]

Borischelski; you can try this link. Its free.
http://www.cyprus-conflict.net/Patrick-chp%203.htm