Prof. Dr. Ata ATUN English Papers
Todays Zaman, January 14, 2008 The Turkish Cypriots, after severe inter-communal armed clashes, began moving from isolated rural areas and mixed villages into safe enclaves to save their lives, leaving behind all of their wealth, property, houses, memories…
ByAta ATUNToday’s Zaman, January 12, 2008 Conscription does not cover Christian minorities on the island: the Armenians, Maronites and Roman Catholics (the Latins). Male Greek Cypriots in the 18 to 49 age range were required to serve in…
ByAta ATUNTodays zaman, january 7, 2008 The articles published in my column under the titles “Cyprus: The complete history from 1960 to 1974” and “Cyprus’ history from 1960 to 1974” on Dec. 17, 24, 29, and 31 of…
ByAta ATUNTodays zaman, january 5, 2008 In Nicosia the guarantors — Turkey, the United Kingdom and Greece — began to move over the Christmas week of 1963. The 650-man Turkish army contingent in Cyprus under the terms of…
ByAta ATUNThe island of Cyprus was already divided in to two, far before 1974. The physical division of Nicosia took place in 1956 when the is-land was under British colonial rule. Colonial Government erected a barbed wire division between the Greek…
ByAta ATUNOn the Cyprus Problem or Issue unfortunately EU is not acting as per her founding principles. Part II (items 61 to 144) of EU Constitution, agreed on December 2000 at Nice Summit, titled as “Charter of Fundamental Rights of the…
ByAta ATUNI am very much depressed by the sales of the mortgaged lands having homes built on. The idea of selling homes of innocent people to collect the debts of a third party or a construction company sounds very wrong to…
ByAta ATUNPolycarpos Yorgadjis, a man who ran his ministry as if he were still in EOKA and who attracted to himself attributions of the most intricate plotting, used the constitutional breakdown over tax collection as an excuse for getting Makarios’s authority…
ByAta ATUN(b) Taxes: Since a majority vote of Turkish deputies in the House was needed to pass tax legislation, Turkish Cypriots sought to use this as leverage to force compliance over the 70:30 ratio, over legislation for separate municipalities and a…
ByAta ATUNA first reaction to this document must be that for a nation of 556,000, this was a very elaborate and very rigid constitution. It runs to 199 articles and of these the 48 “basic” ones were to remain unalterable in…
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