Prof. Dr. Ata ATUN English Papers
Definitely not. The rights of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) as an independent sovereign state are well defined in Articles 3 and 4 of the Montevideo Convention. Articles 3 and 4 of this convention, dated 1933, are exactly…
ByAta ATUNEverybody hoped that the two peoples of the island or the new partners of the Republic of Cyprus would be able to live peacefully after the declaration of the new state on Aug. 16, 1960. In a very short time…
ByAta ATUNInternational terrorism came into being when terrorist activities began to be directed against diplomatic personnel protected by inter-national codes, international organizations or their representatives and against the peaceful relations bet¬ween states with international agreements; in other words, when terror began…
ByAta ATUNBritain won Cyprus as part of the break-up of the Ottoman Em-pire in 1914, and in 1925, it became a British Crown Colony after the approval of Turkey in Lausanne. But by then, Cypriots had had enough of being a…
ByAta ATUNOn July 15, 1974, Reuters, The Associated Press and United Press International announced to the world a distressing event: “The coup staged by Greek officers from Greece on Cyprus has met with success and the island’s administration has fallen into…
ByAta ATUNVery few people have bare idea what it was. Majority of the people had not heard of it yet. Even most of the Greek Cypriots not heard of it. They innocently think that the Cyprus Problem had started in 1974.…
ByAta ATUNYou are now reading my maiden article in this very fresh column of Cyprus News, titled “ATUN FACTOR”. Most probably you’ll be wondering “who’s this guy” and what would be the contents of his column. Actually I am a Turkish…
ByAta ATUNIn August 1960 a partnership state between Turkish and Greek Cypriots was set up in accordance with the international agreements signed by the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot sides, as well as the Turkish, Greek and British governments. However, in…
ByAta ATUNBetween March 2003 and April 24, 2004, Turkish Cypriots were systematically kept under a heavy bombardment of propaganda and brainwashing. Also during this period, Turkish Cypriots were consistently de-ceived with “Euro showers” — huge grants to NGOs with pseudo-promises such…
ByAta ATUNThe decision in the Myra Xenides-Arestis case of December 2006, for which there had been an application for referral to the Grand Chamber by both Turkey and the applicant, has not been accepted and the judgment [of December 2006] became…
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