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  CYPRIOT FOLK DANCES
Cypriot dances are mainly of the type performed by a confronted pair, invariably two men or two women, or men's solo dances displaying virtuosity and often performed with a hand-held object, either a sickle, knife, sieve, or tumbler.
Apart from these common features, Cypriot dances are distinguished by steps peculiar to certain localities, such as stamping in one spot with the feet, crossed alternately in front of each other, in the "second" and particularly the "third" ""kartchilamas"" and in the "syrtos" for men.
Improvization is another characteristic of Cypriot dances and may be attributed to their being performed by only two people and so to an overriding sense of comparison and, by extension, of competition.
www.kypros.org /Cyprus/dance.html   (2696 words)

  
 Olga Tsoudis, THE PORTRAYAL OF CRIME IN THE CYPRIOT MEDIA:
This exploratory study of Cypriot media and crime focuses on evidence of coverage of social sanctions in the media’s portrayal of criminal justice.
Because research on the relationship between Cypriot society and crime is scarce, examining the family is one avenue by which we can understand the society, since the family directly influences individual behaviors and the overall functioning of the society (Georgas et al.
The majority of Cypriots state (1) that tourists have a negative effect on the Cypriot way of life; (2) that tourism changes the traditional culture; and (3) that tourism decreases the lifestyle quality of Cypriots who live in tourist areas (Akis et al.
wcr.sonoma.edu /v3n1/tsoudis.html   (5782 words)

  
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
While some Cypriot works were previously on view or integrated with related works from other cultures, this is the first time in more than fifty years that antiquities from Cyprus have been brought together in galleries devoted specifically to the Cesnola Collection.
The new Cypriot Galleries are located on the second floor of the Museum, directly above the newly renovated galleries for Greek art and the future galleries for Roman art and adjacent to the galleries of ancient near eastern art.
Cypriot art in the Classical period was influenced strongly by Greek models, and most of the works in this gallery reveal a mixture of Greek, Phoenician, and native elements.
www.metmuseum.org /special/cypriot/cypriot_more.html   (1701 words)

  
 Ancient Scripts: Cypriot
While the earliest examples dating from as early as 1500 BCE cannot be read, comparisons clearly show that the Cypriot syllabary seemed to have derived from Linear A, and therefore is like a sibling to Linear B.
The Cypriot script continued to serve mostly for short dedicatory and funerary texts, but there are instances of longer, historical texts during the 5th century BCE.
In the case of syllable-initial consonant clusters, all consonants except the one nearest to the vowel are represented with CV signs whose vowels agree with the vowel of syllable.
www.ancientscripts.com /cypriot.html   (644 words)

  
 Cypriot Greek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is also the first language of older Turkish Cypriots from specific villages (e.g Louroudjina and the Tylliria/Dillirga region) and most other older Turkish Cypriots would speak it as a second language.
Cypriot diglossia makes the dialect one of only two Greek dialects currently still widely used; the other, Pontic language, is healthier in the former Soviet Union and Turkey than in Greece itself, where its use is increasingly emblematic.
The modern Cypriot dialect is not an evolution of the ancient Arcadocypriot dialect, but evolved from Koine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cypriot_Greek   (1347 words)

  
 Section II- GREEK CYPRIOT EAGERNESS...
On 3 July 1990, the Greek Cypriot administration in South made a unilateral application under the usurped title of "the Government of the Republic of Cyprus" to become a member of the EU (then EC) purporting to act for and on behalf of the whole of Cyprus.
A further legal aspect of the unilateral Greek Cypriot application is the restriction imposed by the international treaties, which had established the bi-communal 1960 Republic in any international organizations and pacts of alliance in which Greece and Turkey are not both members.
The Greek Cypriot side has made no secret of this fact and is apparently prepared to make empty gestures of concession, such as purporting to accept "limited sovereignty" of the federated states, rotating Presidency etc., in order to achieve EU membership.
www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/history/cyproblem/articles/bolum2.html   (1830 words)

  
 Cypriot Syllabary - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
The Cypriot Syllabary range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane), which requires the enabling of surrogates in Windows 2000; these characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.
Cypriot syllabic writing (also known as Cypro-Minoan) appeared in Cyprus around 700 B.C., and for a few hundred years it was used for writing Greek and some local languages.
The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
www.alanwood.net /unicode/cypriot_syllabary.html   (244 words)

  
 * Turkish Cypriot Internet Society - Cyprus Problem *
The Greek Cypriot co-founder partner of the 1960 partnership Republic resorted to violence in December 1963 and usurped the state machinery by force of arms.
Turkish Cypriots were relieved from this agony and were saved from total extermination, only by the timely intervention of Turkey in 1974, after the Greeks had made a bloody attempt at the final takeover of Cyprus by Greece, through a coup d'etat organized by the junta in Athens and its collaborators in Cyprus.
The Greek Cypriot administration is also trying to forward its application for full membership of the EU, which is based on the claim that it can unilaterally determine the future of the entire island and create international obligations on behalf of the Turkish Cypriot people as well.
www.fortunecity.com /millenium/ellerburn/16/cyprus_p.html   (794 words)

  
 Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turkish Cypriots proclaimed a separate state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), under Rauf Denktaş on November 15, 1983.
The executive, for example, was headed by a Greek Cypriot president, Archbishop Makarios III, and a Turkish Cypriot vice president, Dr Fazıl Küçük, elected by their respective communities for 5-year terms and each possessing a right of veto over certain types of legislation and executive decisions.
The majority of Cypriots receive their higher education at Greek, British, Turkish, other European and North American universities, while there are also sizeable emigrant communities in the United Kingdom and Australia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cypriot   (6913 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | International | Cypriot connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos talks to Abdel-Azim Darwish about prospects of deepening friendship and fruitful collaboration between Egypt and the Mediterranean island nation, which is now a fully-fledged and prosperous European Union member-state
It is the result of the illegal invasion by Turkey and the continuing military occupation, since 1974, of almost 37 per cent of the territory of the sovereign Republic of Cyprus, in blatant violation of the United Nations Charter and numerous UN resolutions.
The Turkish troops occupy 37 per cent of the territory of Cyprus at the invasion and by force of arms evicted the Greek- Cypriots, who were the majority population in the area, from their homes and properties.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/792/in1.htm   (1629 words)

  
 Cypriot EU Accession: An Impending Crisis in the Turkish-American Relationship
The Greek Cypriot region in the South comprises 59 percent of the land area of the island and enjoys international recognition as the legal government of the Republic of Cyprus.
While Cypriot leaders on both sides, as well as their Greek and Turkish patrons, must come to their own agreement, the United States, in conjunction with the UN and the EU, should urge this outcome, which is in the interests of both Cypriot communities.
The Turkish Cypriots have expressed a desire for EU membership, and alienating them with an embargo that makes them poorer will further reduce their prospects for an eventual reconciliation with the South and a separate entry into the EU.
www.heritage.org /Research/Europe/bg1601.cfm   (3979 words)

  
 Turkish Cypriot Network
Omer Gazi Tekogul, the Turkish Cypriot, who was abducted by the Greek Cypriot police from Pyla, a mixed village under the control of the United Nations, on 1 December 2000, has been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment on March 20, by the Greek Cypriot regime.
In her closing statement, Elena Keoba, the Greek Cypriot prosecutor argued: "Although Pyla is a settlement in the Buffer Zone and comes under the control of the UN, the sovereignty of all Cyprus belongs to the 'Cyprus Republic'.
The Turkish Cypriots in the village are accusing the UN of collaborating with the Greek Cypriot side and of failing to protect the Turkish Cypriots in the village.
www.tcn-cy.freeuk.com /tcn50.htm   (3971 words)

  
 Turkish Cypriot's Efforts To Get Organized   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Turkish Cypriot people who were underprivileged when compared with the Greeks in running their own communal affairs wanted to be treated on equal basis.
The Turkish Cypriot representatives from all parts of the island met on 8 September 1949 in Kardes Ocagi Club in Nicosia and resolved for the formation of the ` Federation of Turkish Cypriot Associations and Organizations' which was usually called `FEDERASYON' (The Federation).
Turkey encouraged Turkish Cypriots who had chosen Turkish nationality to emigrate to Turkey and a Turkish Consulate was opened in Larnaca in 1925 to help facilitate this emigration.
www.charm.net /~trnc/h6.html   (657 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Greek police raid offices of Cypriot airline in crash probe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Coroners testing the remains of passengers and crew of the Cypriot airliner will try to determine if they were already dead before the crash, while French experts will examine the plane's fl-box recorders, officials said.
According the Cypriot government, at least 10 families with children were among the dead.
A 40-day mourning period was declared in Paralymni, a Cypriot town of 10,000 that lost 16 of its residents on the plane.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-08-14-greece-crash_x.htm?csp=34   (1331 words)

  
 CNN - Turkish Cypriot leader demands international recognition - July 15, 1999
Turkey is the only state to recognize the Turkish Cypriot government and maintains 35,000 troops in the north.
Although, the Greek Cypriot state is internationally recognized, a U.N.-patrolled line has divided the island ever since the 1974 invasion.
Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides said the Cyprus question could not be resolved without international pressure on Turkey to meet U.N. Security Council resolutions.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9907/15/turkey.cyprus/index.html   (518 words)

  
 JURIST - Cyprus: Cypriot Law, Legal Research, Human Rights
The executive, for example, was headed by a Greek Cypriot president and a Turkish Cypriot vice president, elected by their respective communities for 5-year terms and each possessing a right of veto over certain types of legislation and executive decisions.
The Cypriot Constitution and the basic law governing the Turkish Cypriot community provide for an independent judiciary, provisions which generally are respected in practice.
The Turkish Cypriot authorities have taken some steps to improve the conditions of Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the territory under their control, but the treatment of these groups still falls short of Turkish Cypriot obligations under the Vienna III Agreement of 1975.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/cyprus.htm   (709 words)

  
 Turkish Cypriot leader appeals for EU to end isolation, but cautious on Finnish plan - iht,europe,EU Cyprus - Europe - ...
The U.N.-led negotiations were effectively frozen after the Greek Cypriots voted in a referendum against a U.N. negotiated reunification plan in 2004 on the eve of their entry into the EU.
Turkish Cypriots voted for the plan, but they remain excluded from the benefits and obligations of EU membership.
Talat met with Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos in July and agreed to resume talks on a two-track approach — one dealing with everyday issues such as crime fighting and the environment, the other on political arrangements for a long-term reunification agreement.
www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/10/10/europe/EU_GEN_EU_Cyprus.php   (555 words)

  
 Turkish Cypriot Network
Omer Gazi Tekogul, the Turkish Cypriot, who was abducted by the Greek Cypriot police from Pyla, a mixed village under the control of the United Nations, on 1 December 2000, was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment on March 20, by the illegal Greek Cypriot court.
Greek Cypriot newspaper Politis, following the case of Costas Menikou, the so called missing Greek Cypriot soldier, has revealed on January 6 that the Greek Cypriot administration knew at least as far back as 1981 that he was buried in the Lakadamia military cemetery in south Cyprus.
While the tension created by the illegal abduction of Omer Tekoglu, a Turkish Cypriot from the mixed village of Pyla, by the Greek Cypriot police is continuing, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against the illegal Greek Cypriot regime in another abduction case that took place in 1995.
www.tcn-cy.freeuk.com   (590 words)

  
 EUROPA Turkish Cypriot community
While the Turkish Cypriots approved it by a margin of 2:1, Greek Cypriots rejected it by a margin of 3:1.
The Regulation is managed by the Taskforce which prepared an Annual Report on the Implementation of the Green Line Regulation (2006) adopted by the Commission and sent to the Council.
The Council is determined to put an end to the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community and to facilitate the reunification of Cyprus by encouraging the economic development of the Turkish Cypriot community.
ec.europa.eu /enlargement/turkish_cypriot_community/index_en.htm   (977 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Europe diary: Cypriot wounds
A Turkish Cypriot, he was sitting in cafe in a Greek Cypriot village, yards from where his father was killed, yards from where he was buried.
Many Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriots who were killed in the fighting that went on from the 1960s, and particularly after the Turkish invasion of 1974, were hurriedly buried in mass graves where they fell.
It is the Turks, not Turkish Cypriots, that are the stumbling block to the re-unification of the island.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/6177505.stm   (4162 words)

  
 EU membership fuels Greek Cypriot intransigence - Turkish Daily News Apr 11, 2005
The Turkish Cypriot people, who were promised their economic isolation would be lifted when they voted yes for the Annan Plan, are waiting in vain with only symbolic international gestures thus far.
Meanwhile, the Greek Cypriot administration made clear that it would start a rearmament program and declared 2005 as “The Year of EOKA.” A major celebration program took place to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the EOKA terror organization that was set up on April 1, 1955.
Greek Cypriot radio reported that, as part of the commemoration, 21 cannon rounds were fired at the Hristu Samara Military barracks, celebrations took place in schools and masses were held at churches.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=10368   (1672 words)

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