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[miltiades]

I think Kikapu is saying let us make love NOT war !!!!

[Kikapu]

I think Kikapu is saying let us make love NOT war !!!!

Well, that's not exactly how the XXX Rated version is said, but you are on the right track Miltiades.!

[DT.]

I believe the boinking has also began. Was at a party where one of the guys was dating a TC and was planning along with 2 others to go clubbing in Kyrenia . Apparently all 3 guys got lucky.

[Oracle]

Why the inverted commas for dating Kikapu? Yes, I thought you took the mickey but it is okay, no problem, I am glad you can see the benefits from such moves.

Oracle, do yourself a favour. Just shut it.

Fascist ... that is all you can say when someone speaks the truth.

..... practicing for being under "Kemalist Kontrol" ....

[humanist]

The Ministry of education and Culture is lining up some important and noval ideas for the coming new school year. These include:

1. Exposing high school students to Turkish literature.
2. Contacts between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot students.
3. Joint participation in European Programmes, both in Cyprus and abroad.
4. Formation of societies within the school that will focus on ways to achieve peaceful coexistence, tolerance, mutual respect, cooperation between Turkish and Greek Cypriots, organising of functions of bicommunal content where each community will exhibit elements of its culture but also the common elements will be shown.

The aim of the above is to cultivate a culture of peaceful coexistence and the undertaking of projects by students of both communities to make known the common struggles of both comminities. Also, daily issues concerning both communities, such as music, dancing, dietary customs, finding a job etc, will be touched upon as well as specilised projects for those that have chosen the Turksih language as one of their major subjects.

Things are changing my friends. It will not be easy but this is a very good beginning.

About bloody time. How about exposing primary school children to the Turkish language.

Bananiot I think you might like to relax a little. Kikapu's coment was simplymade in gest.

[DT.]

The Ministry of education and Culture is lining up some important and noval ideas for the coming new school year. These include:

1. Exposing high school students to Turkish literature.
2. Contacts between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot students.
3. Joint participation in European Programmes, both in Cyprus and abroad.
4. Formation of societies within the school that will focus on ways to achieve peaceful coexistence, tolerance, mutual respect, cooperation between Turkish and Greek Cypriots, organising of functions of bicommunal content where each community will exhibit elements of its culture but also the common elements will be shown.

The aim of the above is to cultivate a culture of peaceful coexistence and the undertaking of projects by students of both communities to make known the common struggles of both comminities. Also, daily issues concerning both communities, such as music, dancing, dietary customs, finding a job etc, will be touched upon as well as specilised projects for those that have chosen the Turksih language as one of their major subjects.

Things are changing my friends. It will not be easy but this is a very good beginning.

About bloody time. How about exposing primary school children to the Turkish language.

Bananiot I think you might like to relax a little. Kikapu's coment was simplymade in gest.

Bananiot can't afford to relax. He is on the lookout under his new role as Head Democrat looking for anyone disagreeing with him and Papapetrou in order to brand them as fascists. He may even take away your rightto democracy if he sees fit so I'd lay low for now Andrea.

[Bananiot]

Just seen thse comments. Barking up the wrong tree my friends. Anyway, the orchestra has began and Lazaros Mavros with "Simerini" are the conductors.

[zan]

Good start Bananiot...


I think that Kikapu got out of his little slip up really well....With the help of his grandad anyway!!!

[zan]

‘Don’t touch our history books’
By Paul Malaos
COALITION partners DIKO yesterday lashed out at government plans to foster bicommunal reconciliation in schools, outlined in a circular from Education Minister Andreas Demetriou.

The circular, which was presented to teachers on Monday, proposes action to help the unification of the people of Cyprus through the application of new teaching schemes, to be applied during the school year.

Among the aims proposed by the Ministry of Education are changes to the history curriculum currently taught in schools, and the development of reciprocal respect between Greek and Turkish Cypriots with the aim of delivering Cyprus from occupation.

At a news conference yesterday, deputy president of DIKO Giorgos Kolokasides said the Ministry’s initiative gave his party serious reason to be concerned.

“The impression given by the Minister’s circular is that our education system so far has been chauvinistic,” said Kolokasides, “and the suggestion that we should rewrite our history books causes us to doubt the Ministry’s priorities.”

Kolokasides said the circular had failed to address serious issues in the education system, focusing instead mainly on issues “which have not been a problem for us in the past”.

His outrage was echoed by DISY deputy Andreas Themistocleous, who described the aims set out in the Ministry’s circular as the “self-castration of our Hellenic heritage”.

“The Minister must realise that he is not the Minister of Education for the occupied areas,” said Themistocleous. “It is important we recognise that if there is to be a solution to the Cyprus problem, the first step towards it will be the mutual and absolute respect of national identities, and this must honored by both sides.”

DIKO deputy Athina Kyriakidou said supporting the initiative of Greek and Turkish Cypriot unity in schools was constructive, but could not become a reality with the presence of the Turkish regime.

“We are content to promote the idea of peaceful coexistence,” said Kyriakidou, “but must take care that all the sacrifices are not made by us.”

Takis Hadjigeorgiou of AKEL hit back at the critics, saying Demetriou deserved to be applauded for his actions, in what he described as a display of courage and true Greek spirit.

In response to DIKO’s accusations that the Ministry of Education intended to distort or twist the history curriculum, Hadjigeorgiou answered: “Our intention is to present history as it took place, and not avoid issues we have steered clear from until now.”

Hadjigeorgiou went on to say that there were parts of history that were often overlooked, such as the mutual suffering of Greek and Turkish Cypriots and the times when both sides had united to fight alongside each other for a common cause.

“We have an obligation towards the new generation to give them the truth,” said Hadjigeorgiou, insisting it was imperative “that we teach the youth of Cyprus that we were not always a divided state, and are working under extremely difficult conditions to find a solution to unite us once more”.

The Education Minister himself expressed surprise at the criticisms, saying it was important to teach today’s youth a rounded, balanced view of the island’s history.

Demetriou said history school books had remained virtually unchanged since 1950 and that the new approach to the subject would be drawn up a by number of experts with different approaches to provide historical truth and accuracy.

Nevertheless, the minister said the discussions under way were fruitful and indicated that society was ready to discuss its reorientation towards a modern, European community capable of discussing the problems of its past and how to solve them in the best possible way.

He added that by changing the approach to teaching, “we would be sending the Turkish Cypriot community a very powerful, political message that we were ready to co-operate and that an end to the occupation was possible”.



Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2008

[denizaksulu]

This would be a good thing as part of a broad Humanities curriculum where they study comparative religions, languages for travel, geopolitical historic-social group associations etc.

So it would also naturally cover e.g. Latin, Arabic, Mandarin, Mongolian ....

That would be a good thing ... but the biggest antidote to all this good learning I have found, is seeing that darned flag on the mountainside whilst on shopping trips to Nicosia and knowing you cannot safely and freely travel into your own country because some foreign Turks are keeping you away. Now that is not good news to any child.

Children / teens are of course free to make up their own minds; we cannot brainwash them into accepting such unfairness as being good news, if on the other hand we are also trying to teach them the difference between right and wrong and respecting other people's Rights ....

Overall the Turks remain bad news for our children (unless we hide the truth and bring them up with Turkish propaganda which might be Mr Bananiot's chosen subject for the school timetable ......

One step at a time Oracle, one at a time. The above is good news. Lets hope it meets with reciprocation and also includes Kikapu's suggestion also. Damn its 45 years too late for me.