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 [...]
Hoping to promote peace on the island, an exhibition of all things elephant is ongoing in Nicosia as a prelude to a bigger event in May.
You would most likely break into fits of giggles if told that elephants will be gracing the streets of Nicosia. But it’s no laughing matter when a woman who has [...]
For one Cypriot woman living with the isolated people of Tibet proved a real eye opener. Her photographs of the experience are now on show in Nicosia.
Tibet: a place steeped in magic and mystery, the land of snow, the roof of the world. For one woman, Tibet is all of these things and so much [...]
Picture a colossal theme park covering a million cubic metres of land, replete with waterfalls, swanky hotels, a museum and re-enactments of the ancient naval battle of Salamis. A staggering tourist attraction for Greece, no doubt. Except it wouldn’t be in Greece, but in the heart of Cyprus, to be precise.
According to local Cypriot media, the project, [...]
Late abstract expressionist’s work on show in Athens
Samples of the artist’s ‘Reds’ series on show at the Portalakis Collection Gallery.
A key figure in abstract expressionism, Theodoros Stamos spent most of his life in New York City. A photo in a 1951 edition of Life Magazine depicting a group of American avant-garde artists [...]
Mount Olympus, Greece’s highest peak and the legendary home of the ancient Greek gods, has been selected as one of 261 candidates for the second phase of the worldwide New Seven Wonders of Nature contest.
The mountain was the only Greek candidate to make it through to the first phase of online voting at www.new7wonders.com, which [...]
A passionate love letter written by French singer Edith Piaf to Greek actor Dimitris Horn more than half a century ago, telling him “don’t let my heart die” went under the hammer in Greece on January 16.
Piaf, who died of cancer at the age of 47 in 1963, wrote the letter to budding Greek heart-throb Dimitris [...]
