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Lobby for Cyprus is a non-party-political human rights organisation campaigning for a reunited Cyprus.

What the latest Cyprus crisis is really about

04 April 2013

With every generation it seems there is a new crisis in Cyprus. In the 1950s it was the struggle for independence from colonial rule. In the 1960s there were clashes on the island. In the 1970s there was the illegal Turkish invasion and occupation.

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Seminar report: Bicommunalism and bizonalism – redundant concepts in multi-ethnic Cyprus?

06 February 2013

On Thursday 24 January a packed Hellenic Centre heard Dr Van Coufoudakis and Dr Klearchos Kyriakides consider whether a bizonal, bicommunal federal solution offered a fair, workable or rational basis upon which to resolve the Cyprus issue.

Seminar report: The plight of the Enclaved of Cyprus

01 August 2012

On Wednesday 18 July a packed Theatro Technis, in Camden Road, London heard the Bishop of Karpasia urge the audience to have hope for a better future for the Enclaved of Cyprus, the ethically cleansed refugees and the people of Cyprus generally.

Famagusta: from tragedy to opportunity

21 May 2012

Four speakers, each analysing a different issue relating to the Turkish occupied town of Famagusta, were in agreement that the town must be returned to the Republic of Cyprus.

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Anthony writes…

19 November 2012

Anthony Anaxagorou is a poet and writer of Cypriot descent living in north London. His mother is from Nicosia and his father from Famagusta. At our Night for Cyprus on 10 December 2012 Anthony performed his poem 'Two syllables, Six letters' which he wrote especially for the event.

Can a bi-zonal solution be found for Cyprus?

11 September 2012

At a recent meeting at the UK Parliament a series of prominent speakers historically associated with the search to find a settlement in Cyprus, expressed disappointment that no solution had been found to-date on the basis of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation, despite the best efforts of the international community

Media watch

19 March 2013

Kathimerini

Cypriot Nobelist Pissarides 'appalled' by deposit tax and eurozone's 'bullying'

Christopher Pissarides, who shared a Nobel Prize in economics in 2010, told Bloomberg Businessweek in an e-mail today that he is “appalled” by Europe’s plan to impose a tax on deposits in Cypriot banks to help pay for a $13 billion bailout. Pissarides was born and raised in Cyprus.

05 February 2013

New Europe

Turkey our neighbour

Turkey’s relationship with Europe is at best uneasy but at other times has been fraught with conflict and hostility. Ottoman expansion was stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683 and in the Mediterranean at the battle of Lepanto in 1571.

21 September 2012

Cyprus Weekly

Hand him over

NICOSIA – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will take all necessary steps in the direction of the Kyrgyzstan government as regards the release of Erhan Arikli, one of the suspects for the murder of a Greek Cypriot in 1996, Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou – Marcoullis said on Friday.