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31/12/2024

We wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year and peace, freedom and justice in the whole world.

09/12/2024

Anti-terrorist rhetoric is used in Erdogan's Turkey as a context for "legitimising" all kinds of attacks against human rights and political freedoms.
Can Koçak, a media and journalism lecturer at the University of Sussex, alleges that Keir Starmer's government in their efforts to increase trade and co-operation with Turkey could potentially be influenced by that rhetoric.
According to him, such rhetoric “provided context" for a Metropolitan Police raid on 27 November 2024 at the Kurdish Community Centre in North London", which by implication, in his opinion, was unjustified.
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"While Erdoğan wages war on Turkey’s workers’ movement by jailing socialist MPs, the British police’s harassment of London’s Kurdish community reveals how much this authoritarianism has stretched to Britain".…

27/11/2024

If we want to be objective, the key to the solution of the Cyprus problem is in the hands of Turkey and Cyprus joining NATO is not going to change that in any way.

In any event, the "British Sovereign Bases", which are also used by the USA, offer everything NATO needs in Cyprus, whether we like it or not, and the Republic of Cyprus joining NATO is not going to add anything or benefit Cyprus in any sense.

Thinking NATO is going to put pressure on Turkey is an illusion. The only choice available (if one still exists at all) is a BBF solution and that is going to be decided in the near future or goodbye.

Make up your minds that Turkey is becoming a regional power and Cyprus cannot possibly become a "new Israel".

Cyprus can be reunited by negotiation only through compromise and real trust between the two major communities and between Greece and Turkey. In the longer term, Cyprus needs good relations and co-operation with both Greece and Turkey.

The founding president of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, did the right thing in "aligning" Cyprus with the Non-Aligned Countries.

Losing more of our sovereignty, independence and bargaining power and many important friends will be the only consequence of joining NATO.

What we need is a peaceful, prosperous, federal Cyprus, without foreign armies, with only a federal defensive force, not exposing ourselves to potentially more risks by joining an aggressive alliance and becoming accessories to wars and barbarities.

24/10/2024

"SHOULDER TO SHOULDER AGAINST FASCISM"

04/08/2024

Christodoulides and Tatar are invited to a meeting by Guterres on Tuesday 13th August - Tuesday and 13 is an unlucky coincidence according to Greek superstition. Let's hope that it will turn out to be lucky this time...

And what is this talk about "new elements" by Gerapetritis? That's a little worrisome...

The President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, has accepted an invitation from UN Secretary-General António Guterres for a trilateral meeting on the Cyprus issue on August 13th. The Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, has not yet responded. Greece's Foreign Minister suggests introducing "new elem...

01/08/2024

First of all, let’s make one thing clear. We don’t support the Russian invasion in Ukraine. We don’t support the invasion of any country by any country. We don’t support war. We don’t support aggressive military alliances. We don’t believe that war ever solves problems. It only creates more.

Once we made that clear, we would like to ask a couple of questions. Who provoked this war. How did this war start?

We don’t support the Russian invasion in Ukraine. But let's ask: Who provoked this war. How did this war start?

21/07/2024

ΟΧΙ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΣΟ «ΝΕΚΡΗ» Η «ΝΕΚΡΗ ΖΩΝΗ»

Όχι και τόσο «νεκρή» η «νεκρή ζώνη». Ο Γκουτέρες ανησυχεί. Στην πραγματικότητα είναι αρκετά άσχημη η κατάσταση.

Κάποιοι πρέπει να προσέξουν. Εγκυμονεί σοβαρούς κινδύνους μια τέτοια κατάσταση.

Oι ανόητες εντάσεις στη νεκρή ζώνη εξυπηρετούν αυτούς που δεν θέλουν την επανένωση της Κύπρου.

Και δεν πρέπει να αποκλείονται και χειρότερα, αν δεν προσέξουμε.

Προσπαθούσα να αναρτήσω βίντεο με αναφορές του Γ.Γ. των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για τις εντάσεις στη νεκρή ζώνη αλλά το Facebook το μπλόκαρε.

Προφανώς κάποιος κακοήθης που δεν του άρεσε η νούσιμη και δίκαιη έκθεση του Αντώνιο Γκουτέρες, το κατήγγειλε για δήθεν παραβίαση των κανονισμών του Facebook.

20/07/2024

It now seems almost certain that Donald Trump will win the next USA presidential elections and a new picture will emerge. Mr Orbán’s prediction stands a particularly good chance of being proved right. Why?

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former US President Donald Tramp had talks "about chances of peace". Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on 18/07/24 released a letter he addressed to the heads of European Union countries where he presented his impressions from a recent series of visits...

08/07/2024

IS IMMIGRATION "GOOD" OR "BAD"?
Despite the usual rhetoric of immigrants “taking our jobs” (an argument cynically and incorrectly employed by populist propaganda), reports by experts show clearly that the economies of wealthy countries (USA, UK and Europe) benefit from immigration, as explained in a Financial Times article.

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UKCY NEWS, The News Service for All UK Cypriots

Immigration is the number one political concern for Americans for the third month in a row, wrote Rana Foroohar on 8 July in the Financial Times. Something similar is happening in the UK, in our native country, Cyprus, and in Europe generally. Immigration has…

07/07/2024

TWO CYPRIOTS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The members and friends of the Labour Cypriot Society worked hard during the pre-election period, shoulder to shoulder with other Labour members and supporters and now, together with the landslide victory of the Labour Party, they are able to celebrate the election of two Cypriot Labour MPs.

Please click and read more on our website. By visiting our website you help UKCY NEWS, The UK Cypriot News Service, to survive.

Members and friends of the Labour Cypriot Society worked hard before 4 July and now celebrate their achievement.

04/07/2024

In my 52 years in the UK, I find the 2024 UK general election is the most amazing in terms of how many newspapers and other mass media have expressed their support for a Labour victory.

Click and find out who they are and what made them support a Labour victory - what would they expect from a Labour government.

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In my 52 years in the UK, I find the 2024 UK general election is the most amazing in terms of how many newspapers and other mass media have expressed their support for a Labour victory. It is important to see why these newspapers and other mass media support a…

01/07/2024

As a friend said, Chipping Barnet Conservative candidate Theresa Villiers was obviously rattled by a statement made to Parikiaki UK Cypriot newspaper by Chipping Barnet Labour candidate Dan Tomlinson, so she enlisted Foreign Secretary David Cameron to provide a video with “a statement of support for Cypriots”.

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Theresa Villiers was rattled by a statement made to Parikiaki by Chipping Barnet Labour candidate Dan Tomlinson...