Navy technicians of the Turkish frigate TCG Gemlik prepared a Sikorsky SH70-B Seahawk helicopter for flight during a mock search-and-rescue exercise by Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot military forces yesterday off Cyprus, where tensions are running high over Greek-Cypriot plans to expand searches for oil and gas.
Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot warships staged search-and-rescue drills off the Republic of [...]
FROM THE HOMEBOY ARCHIVES > YEAR 2006 [July 28, 2006]
The American reaction to these outrageous pogroms reflect the misguided support for Turkey over the period of many decades.
In additon, Turkey invaded Cyprus during the summer of 1974 under the guise of upholding the accords which established the independence of Cyprus in 1959 and occupied thirty [...]
A Turkish actor, who this week admitted to killing 10 Greek Cypriots during Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in 1974, is expected to be called before the island’s missing persons committee despite issuing a statement late yesterday retracting his comments.
The revelations of Attila Olgac, star of a hit television series, to a private Turkish channel caused [...]
A new exhibition featuring a number of stolen Cypriot treasures and antiques opened at the Makarios Foundation Byzantine Museum in Nicosia.
Church relics that have been repatriated after being stolen by Turkish antiquities dealer Aydin Dikmen, are among the items on display at the exhibition, which opened on Monday 19th January.
Archbishop Chrysostomos II of the Church of [...]
The British couple at the centre of a legal battle over their illegal purchase of Greek Cypriot property in the Turkish occupied and military controlled north area of Cyprus are to receive help from a mystery financial backer, Turkish Cypriot papers have reported.
Under the title “Mystery backer to boost Orams fight”, a Turkish Cypriot weekly [...]
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday, bidding a last farewell to the Greek-Cypriot nationalist politician closely tied to the island’s troubled history.
Among foreign dignitaries paying their respects at the Nicosia service were Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis. “Tassos Papadopoulos has been a prominent [...]
The Cyprus Government aims to ban the sale of any GPS receivers that use maps featuring Turkish place-names for the currently Turkish occupied and military controlled areas of the Republic.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the US Defence Department. [...]
