Download or read book The Property Issue in the Cyprus Problem written by Andreas Symeou and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive overview of several aspects of the property issue in the Cyprus conflict (historical, legal, political and financial) and proposes a number of win-win solutions to this complicated issue. The Cyprus problem is one of the longest frozen conflicts in the world. Many books feature the Cyprus problem in general, but there are only a few commentaries on the property issue, i.e. what will be the fate of about 500,000 acres of private land left by Greek Cypriots in the north and about 140,000 acres of private land left by the Turkish Cypriots in the south in the event of a political settlement based on a bizonal, bicommunal federation. Although largely unremarked by those outside Cyprus, the property issue is probably the thorniest and most complicated one in the negotiations and at the same time the key to the solution of this long lasting conflict. It affects a very large percentage of the population and has enormous political, legal, financial and social implications. It has become even more difficult and complicated because of the passing of 44 years since the forceful division of Cyprus as a result of the Turkish invasion and the consolidation of its consequences on the ground. The negotiations between the leaders of the two sides in Cyprus have reached a stalemate as a result of the deadlock in the Crans Montana Conference which was conducted in the presence of the UN Secretary General. A new round of talks will hopefully start after the June 2018 general elections in Turkey. The book could be a useful tool in the hands of all parties involved or interested in the negotiations, including the United Nations Good Offices Mission and the European Union representatives. The book, however, is expected to remain a useful reference book for the future, whether the talks succeed or fail. It can be also of interest to a wider audience, including academics, politicians and policy makers, mediators, the law society, property professionals, post-graduate students doing research on international conflict politics and ordinary people in Cyprus and elsewhere interested in the Cyprus problem or with a personal interest as dispossessed owners or secondary users. The author's interest in this topic is due to his involvement, initially as a member and later as the head of the Greek Cypriot group on property in the intercommunal talks from April 2008 until February 2012, as well as a member of the group between April 2014 and August 2015. His experience with this issue has led him to the strong belief that, although property is a complex issue, an agreement on it between the two sides is possible, provided that both will demonstrate the necessary political will, but also if practical common sense and technocratic approaches are applied. It is the author's view that the leaders/ negotiators should confine themselves to the target of reaching a strategic agreement on the core issues. The involvement of technocrats is necessary both in the stage of the discussion of the core issues in advising on several alternative scenarios and also after such a strategic agreement is reached, in working on the legal and technical details required for adding flesh to the bones. Another important task of the technocrats should be to propose win-win ideas. Bits and pieces of such ideas can be found in the proposals of both sides and in other ideas that have been proposed from time to time and in several studies and articles of experts on the property issue. The author himself proposes several innovative ideas which could be for the benefit of both parties in the conflict.
Download or read book The Cyprus Problem written by James Ker-Lindsay and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 60 years, the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of the international spotlight. In The Cyprus Problem, James Ker-Lindsay--recently appointed as expert advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Cyprus--offers an incisive, even-handed account of the conflict. Ker-Lindsay covers all aspects of the Cyprus problem, placing it in historical context, addressing the situation as it now stands, and looking toward its possible resolution.
Download or read book The European Court of Human Rights and the Cyprus Property Issue written by Rhodri C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cyprus Problem written by James Ker-Lindsay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation's ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island--the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of the international spotlight. And while it has been often in the news, accurate and impartial information on the conflict has been nearly impossible to obtain. In The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know?, James Ker-Lindsay--recently appointed as expert advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Cyprus--offers an incisive, even-handed account of the conflict. Ker-Lindsay covers all aspects of the Cyprus problem, placing it in historical context, addressing the situation as it now stands, and looking toward its possible resolution. The book begins with the origins of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities as well as the other indigenous communities on the island (Maronites, Latin, Armenians, and Gypsies). Ker-Lindsay then examines the tensions that emerged between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots after independence in 1960 and the complex constitutional provisions and international treaties designed to safeguard the new state. He pays special attention to the Turkish invasion in 1974 and the subsequent efforts by the UN and the international community to reunite Cyprus. The book's final two chapters address a host of pressing issues that divide the two Cypriot communities, including key concerns over property, refugee returns, and the repatriation of settlers. Ker-Lindsay concludes by considering whether partition really is the best solution, as many observers increasingly suggest. Written by a leading expert, The Cyprus Problem brings much needed clarity and understanding to a conflict that has confounded observers and participants alike for decades. What Everyone Needs to Know? is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
Download or read book Cyprus written by Vincent Morelli and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to resolve the Cyprus problem and reunify the island have undergone various levels of negotiation for over 45 years. On October 3, 2010, after almost two years of intense negotiations between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, attempts to reach an acceptable solution for reunification had failed and the Republic of Cyprus celebrated its 50th anniversary as a divided country with a permanent solution far from being achieved. Contents of this report: Background: Annan Plan; The Christofias-Talat Negotiations: 2008-2010; A New Era: Christofias and Eroglu; Issues; EU Trade with North Cyprus; Assessment. Map. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Download or read book Building Confidence in Peace written by Erol Kaymak and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reports and analyses the results of the first public opinion survey in Cyprus carried out by the Centre for European Policy Studies in collaboration with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot partners. In the new atmosphere of relaunched negotiations in 2008, this book investigates what Cypriots think of each other, of the peace process and of possible solutions to the conflict."--Publisher.
Download or read book People s Peace in Cyprus written by Alexandros Lordos and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2009 may well be a make-or-break year for the protracted Cyprus conflict. While strategic assessments and elite incentives bode cautiously well for a settlement, ultimately an agreement will have to be approved by the two Cypriot communities and above all it will have to be implemented by them on the ground. In view of the centrality of the people in this peace process, CEPS, in collaboration with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot partners, launched a project in late 2007 investigating, through successive opinion polls, what Cypriots think of each other, of the peace process and of possible solutions to the conflict. In this book the authors present the results of their second survey, conducted simultaneously in the southern and northern parts of the island in January and February 2009. It delves into the Cypriots' views on the thorniest questions of the conflict and assesses whether and how, once we leave the abstract level of labels and slogans and enter into the specifics of a package deal, convergence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots is possible.
Download or read book Crisis on Cyprus written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Certain Facts about the Cyprus Problem written by Cyprus. Grapheion Dēmosiōn Plērophoriōn and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhetoric of the Cyprus Problem written by Iakovos Menelaou and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not another history of the Cyprus problem. It is an analysis of the forces and policies which led to the traumatic experience of 1974 and the geographical separation of the two largest Cypriot communities (the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots). Also, it is an analysis of those forces which keep the island divided. Why is Cyprus a divided island? What led to this division? What forces keep the two communities apart? Why was the Annan Plan rejected? How important is the role of the "motherlands"? Are there any geostrategic interests? Why is Cyprus important in the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean? This book deals with these and other questions, and the analysis is based on declassified documents and other primary material.
Download or read book The Cyprus Problem written by Nikos Kranidiōtēs and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cyprus Issue written by Nikos Skoutaris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on the interrelationship of the EU legal order and the Cyprus issue. The book addresses a question which is of great significance for the legal order of the EU (as well as for Cypriots, Turks and Greeks), namely how the Union deals with the de facto division of the island. Despite the partial normalisation of relations between the two ethno-religious groups on the island, Cyprus' accession to the EU has not led to its reunification, nor to the restoration of human rights, nor a complete end to the political and economic isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community. Ironically enough, the accession of the island to the EU actually added a new dimension to the division of the island. According to Protocol 10 on Cyprus to the Act of Accession 2003, the Republic of Cyprus joined the Union with its entire territory. However, due to the fact that its Government cannot exercise effective control over the whole island, pending a settlement, the application of the acquis is 'suspended in those areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic of Cyprus does not have effective control.' Given this unprecedented (for an EU Member State) situation of not controlling part of its territory, the book analyses the limits of the suspension of the Union acquis in the areas north of the Green Line. In other words, the telos of this particularly challenging research is to map the partial application of Union law in an area where there are two competing claims of authority.
Download or read book Cyprus at the European Court of Human Rights written by Costas Paraskeva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors grapple with questions raised by the Court’s reversal in its approach to the violations of the rights to home and property of Cypriot displaced persons resulting from the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus. In the 4th interstate application of Cyprus v. Turkey, the Court found Turkey in violation of the rights to home and property of hundreds of thousands of Greek Cypriot internally displaced persons resulting from the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus. Such findings were also firmly established in a handful of individual applications, most prominent amongst which is the landmark case Loizidou v. Turkey. However, a couple of decades following these judgments the findings of violations were jettisoned by the inadmissibility decision in Demopoulos and others v. Turkey.
Download or read book Legal Aspects of the Cyprus Problem written by Frank Hoffmeister and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five versions of the comprehensive settlement plan for Cyprus, which UN Secretary-General Annan tabled between 2002 and 2004, raised a variety of international law and European law questions. This book contains the first systematic analysis of the Annan plan, thereby providing an overview of the legal aspects of the Cyprus problem. It also discusses how the plan was intended to be accommodated in the European legal order. Did it comply with the fundamental principle of democracy, rule of law and human rights? Would a united Cyprus have been able to speak with one voice and to implement EU law properly? The Author, who has worked both for the European Commission and for the UN Special Advisor on Cyprus, presents a precise account of facts and thorough legal assessments. He also tackles current legal problems arising out of Cyprus’ membership in the EU and the suspension of the acquis communautaire in the northern part of Cyprus. He finally analyses how the question of recognition affects the relations between Cyprus and Turkey. The book is an ideal choice for practitioners and researchers because it combines first hand information on the most recent developments on Cyprus with legal evaluations from an international official trained in international and European law.
Download or read book The Ecology of Coexistence and Conflict in Cyprus written by Irene Dietzel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the significance of sustainable resource management for the functioning of Mediterranean island societies? How do human-environment relations reflect in a multi-ethnic religious landscape? This book poses these questions in the context of the Ottoman, British, and modern history of Cyprus. It explores the socio-ecological dimension of the Cyprus conflict and considers the role of local environmental practices for historical coexistence and modern division. The book synthesizes theoretical approaches from the research on 'religion and ecology' with the anthropology of Cyprus, with the goal to develop and establish an ecological perspective on coexistence and conflict in the Mediterranean. Religion is seen as the place where local representations of nature and traditions of resource management are generated and maintained. The work takes a comparative look at the impact of Eastern Orthodox and Islamic institutions on the island's landscape, as well as the religious and economic practices of the rural peasant communities. The findings are then spelled out in the context of current discourses on religion, environmental ethics, and social justice.
Download or read book The Past in Pieces written by Rebecca Bryant and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, and so international media heralded the opening of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the fall of the Berlin Wall. As in the moment of the Wall's collapse, cameras captured the rush of Cypriots across the border to visit homes unwillingly abandoned three decades earlier. It was a euphoric moment, and one that led to expectations of reunification. But within a year Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly rejected at referendum a United Nations plan to reunite the island, despite their Turkish compatriots' support for the plan. In The Past in Pieces, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant explores why the momentous event of the opening has not led Cyprus any closer to reunification, and indeed in many ways has driven the two communities of the island further apart. This chronicle of the "new Cyprus" tells the story of the opening through the voices and lives of the people of one town that has experienced conflict. Over the course of two years, Bryant studied a formerly mixed town in northern Cyprus in order to understand both experiences of life together before conflict and the ways in which the dissolution of that shared life is remembered today. Tales of violation and loss return from the past to shape meanings of the opening in daily life, redefining the ways in which Cypriots describe their own senses of belonging and expectations of the political future. By examining the ways the past is rewritten in the present, Bryant shows how even a momentous opening may lead not to reconciliation but instead to the discovery of new borders that may, in fact, be the real ones.
Download or read book Contemporary Social and Political Aspects of the Cyprus Problem written by Jonathan Warner and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In todays world, the issue of Cyprus is notable for all the wrong reasons: because of the duration of the divisions in Cyprus itself between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots (formalized since 1983 by a disputed international border across the island); because of the involvement of Greece and Turkey, for which the hyphenated Cypriot communities form proxy battalions; and because of the failure of the United Nations longstanding efforts to resolve the conflict. Much of the discussion in the book revolves around the difficulty of producing viable constitutional and civic arrangements in an ethnically-divided polity. It is clear that this issue dominates almost all discussions of the Cyprus Problem, from the drawing of internal borders, the conceptualization of identity of oneself and of the other, to the management of the natural resources with which the island is endowed. Containing chapters from both Turkish- and Greek-Cypriots, as well as outside scholars, the book covers four key themes, namely identity and perceptions; contemporary issues in the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities; comparisons with divided polities elsewhere; and new approaches to resolving the Cyprus Problem. One of the key messages from this book is that people-to-people initiatives must supplement the plans (and posturing) of politicians in order to make progress towards an ultimate resolution of the Cyprus Problem. The book shows that human ingenuity is able to find a widely accepted and workable formula for a Cyprus that combines unity and diversity, acknowledges the worth of its different constituent communities, and addresses or begins to move beyond historical animosities and injustices.
