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Turkey, a global problem

by Savvas Kalèndéridès , Stavros Kalèndéridès

Athens (Greece) | 1 May 2021

Turkey has once again escaped the consequences of its actions, this time in Nagorno-Karabakh. It is probably today in the crosshairs of the Pentagon, which wishes to destroy it like all the other states in the wider Middle East. This is the problem: it risks being set on fire to continue the (…)

The UN fails to acknowledge the occupation of Cyprus

10 July 2017

The United Nations (actually, the Director of Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman) organized a peace conference for Cyprus at Crans-Montana (Switzerland). On 6 July 2017, this conference came to an end, a clear failure as the Cypriot party rejected the “agreement”.
The two entities that took (…)

Building Totalitarianism in Europe – The Last Coup of Victoria Nuland

by Dimitri Konstantakopoulos

Athens (Greece) | 7 January 2017

Since April 2016, US neoconservatives have been trying to change the status of Cyprus. It is for them both (1) to reunite the island (2) to deprive it of its army (3) but also to deploy the Turkish army under cover of NATO. The inevitable Victoria Nuland, who should have become Secretary of (…)

Cyprus invited to join NATO

3 May 2016

Washington is pushing for a solution to the crisis in Cyprus which includes the membership of the reunified island in the Atlantic Alliance. This was the message of ambassador Victoria Nuland, on the 19th April in Nicosia.
In 1974, when Cyprus became the refuge for Greeks persecuted by the (…)

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary and Romania establish a Pro-Israel Front within the EU

2 February 2016

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary and Romania have reached an agreement with Israel to defend its positions in the heart of the European Union.
On 18 January 2016, these five European states got together and ordered the European Ministers of Foreign Affairs to withdraw any reference that was (…)

Cyprus - Israel - Greece Trilateral Summit Declaration

28 January 2016

We, Nikos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, and Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, having met in Nicosia today, 28th January 2016, have agreed to strengthen the cooperation between our three (…)

The Russian army partially blocks the air space over Lebanon and Cyprus

24 November 2015

On Saturday 21st November 2015, the Russian army began a three-day military « exercise »off the coast of Syria.
The Russian military staff asked the Lebanese and Cypriot governments to detour civil and military flights from their Mediterranean air space, including from the British bases of (…)

No hegemonic peace in Cyprus

by Marios L. Evriviades

Athens (Greece) | 5 April 2014

If NATO today trots out the principle of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty to condemn Russia, how come it doesn’t condemn Turkey when it comes to the territorial integrity and sovereignty that Cyprus is equally entitled to? Professor Marios L. Evriviades revisits the Turkish plan (…)

"Before our very eyes"

The Cypriot Pawn

by Thierry Meyssan

Moscow (Russia) | 25 March 2013

Washington was quick to use the financial crisis in Cyprus to implement a strategy for capturing capital described three weeks ago in these columns [3]. With the help of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, US comprador Christine Lagarde, the American leadership challenged (…)

THE NEW MEDITERRANEAN OIL AND GAS BONANZA - PART 2

Rising energy tensions in the Aegean Sea

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 6 March 2012

After the Eastern Mediterranean, this author focuses on the gas and oil windfall in the Aegean sea, which promises to fiercely shake up the geopolitical landscape. In the case of Greece, while new-found reserves could potentially blot out her entire debt, and possibly have even averted it, the (…)