Κυπριακες Υποσημειωσεις

Below is a list of archives containing resources on Cyprus: 1. PIO Archive – Contains digitized newspapers and magazines from Cyprus. Part of the collection has been digitized and physical access is possible at their facilities. Website: https://pressarchive.cy/s/en/page/homepage   2. Digital Herodotous  – Archive of RIK (CyBC), containing audio and video material from the Cypriot state broadcaster. Webaite: https://www.digital-herodotus.eu/archive/ 3. Polignosi – A Greek-language online Cypriot encyclopedia with content on various topics related to Cyprus. It has occasionally proven useful, as it includes information on subjects for which no other online information exists. Website: https://www.polignosi.com/ 4. Cyprus Movements Archive  – An open-access archive of the Cypriot radical movement, containing leaflets, magazines, brochures and other material. At present available only as a Wayback Machine backup. Website: https://web.archive.org/web/2025042818364...

Νομοσχέδιο που περιορίζει το δικαίωμα στη διαδήλωση και την ειρηνική διαμαρτυρία στην Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία. Μπορεί να εντοπιστεί πατώντας εδώ. Παλαιότερη εκδοχή του νομοσχεδίου που είχε προταθεί το 2024 μπορεί να εντοπιστεί πατώντας εδώ.  

Η Γλωσσολογική Εταιρεία Κύπρου εκφράζει τον έντονο προβληματισμό της για τον δημόσιο λόγο περί γλώσσας που αναπτύχθηκε τις τελευταίες ημέρες με αφορμή την απόσυρση του βιβλίου «Στες πέτρες» από τη 19η Διεθνή Μπιενάλε Αρχιτεκτονικής στη Βενετία. Η έντονη και συχνά φορτισμένη αντιπαράθεση που παρατηρείται ανέδειξε πλήθος παρανοήσεων και επιστημονικά αστήρικτων απόψεων γύρω από την κυπριακή ελληνική και τη θέση της στον δημόσιο λόγο και την κυπριακή κοινωνία. Ως ο επιστημονικός φορέας εκπροσώπησης των γλωσσολόγων στην Κύπρο, οφείλουμε να συμβάλουμε στη δημόσια συζήτηση αποσαφηνίζοντας κρίσιμες έννοιες και αναδεικνύοντας τεκμηριωμένες επιστημονικές θέσεις. Ένα ζήτημα που προκάλεσε σύγχυση στον κόσμο αυτές τις μέρες ήταν και τα γλωσσωνύμια που μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθούν για αναφορά στις γλωσσικές ποικιλίες της Κύπρου και συγκεκριμένα οι όροι «κυπριακή ελληνική» και «κυπριακή τουρκική» (καθώς και οι εναλλακτικές ονομασίες που μπορεί να βρει κανείς σε καθημερινό ύφος, συγκεκριμένα «ελληνοκ...

Article originally published on the Kontrasusta webiste. Archived version located at the Cyprus Movements Archive.   ------- Is there a non-colonial language in Cyprus? And if yes, should we all speak Eteo-Cypriot? published on November 22, 2017 by nvp No one can argue that language is not, at a certain level of analysis, a political tool. People in Cyprus intuitively know this, and that’s why I won’t go into the theory, but instead focus on the practical. Language is political, and we, as individuals and groups, are doing politics. Sometimes consciously, other times less so. This website was also created by a series of political decisions, some of which quite conscious (it is a website which doesn’t limit itself to one part of Cyprus, even though the default option is to segregate). It is, among other things, a spiritual successor of an older political project, the 35-33 Media Collective, but it’s not the same as 35-33 for many reasons. Among them: language polic...

Το άρθρο δημοσιεύθηκε αρχικά στα Αγγλικά στον ιστότοπο Kontrasusta. Αυτή η μετάφραση εντοπίστηκε στο Κυπριακό Κινηματικό Αρχείο.   ------- Υπάρχει μια μη αποικιακή γλώσσα στην Κύπρο; Και αν ναι, θα έπρεπε όλοι να μιλάμε στην ετεοκυπριακή; δημοσιεύτηκε στις 22 Νοεμβρίου, 2017, από nvp. Κανείς δεν μπορεί να ισχυριστεί ότι η γλώσσα δεν είναι, σε ένα ορισμένο επίπεδο ανάλυσης, ένα πολιτικό εργαλείο. Οι άνθρωποι στην Κύπρο το γνωρίζουν αυτό διαισθητικά, και γι' αυτό δεν θα ασχοληθώ με τη θεωρία, αλλά θα επικεντρωθώ στο πρακτικό επίπεδο. Η γλώσσα είναι πολιτική, και εμείς, ως άτομα και ομάδες, κάνουμε πολιτική. Μερικές φορές συνειδητά, άλλες φορές λιγότερο. Αυτός ο ιστότοπος δημιουργήθηκε επίσης από μια σειρά πολιτικών αποφάσεων, μερικές από τις οποίες αρκετά συνειδητές (είναι ένας ιστότοπος που δεν περιορίζεται σε ένα μέρος της Κύπρου, παρόλο που η συνηθισμένη επιλογή είναι ο διαχωρισμός). Είναι, μεταξύ άλλων, πνευματικός διάδοχος ενός παλαιότερου πολιτικού εγ...

I am here preserving an old post I made on the Kontrasusta website that listed documentaries on Cyprus. The post can be located on the Wayback Machine by pressing here. Some links in the post might be now dead.  The documentaries mentioned in the list that were made by Peter Loizos can be found here.   Delirium

Anthropologist Peter Loizos made the following two documentaries on Cyprus:   Life Chances Four Families In A Greek Cypriot Village (1974) The first ethnographic film on Cyprus by Peter Loizou, Life Chances explores the lives of four Greek Cypriot families in the village of Argaκi and the changes in their modes of living with the development of agricultural production. It can be located by pressing here.   Sophia And Her People (1985) The second ethnographic film on Cyprus by Peter Loizou, Eventful Lives documents the experiences of a Greek Cypriot family from Argaki as refugees. Unlike his first film, narration is seldom used, leaving it to the camera to document the incidents, dialogues and experiences of the people filmed. It can be located by pressing here.    

I am here listing some resources for accessing information regarding the ongoing Israel-Iran war. These are meant to be additional resources and should be complemented by information provided by reliable international media, such as Reuters, Associated Press and Al Jazeera. It should be pointed out that information coming out of Iran is scarce, as internet access has been cut off by the Iranian state, and media censorship in Iran is one of the most extreme in the world. Israel has also implemented military censorship of its media regarding the war. Institute for the Study of War: U.S. think tank providing reliable day by day military analyses regarding ongoing conflicts. The Institute is currently producing reports on the ongoing war twice each day. It lists its sources thoroughly. Warfronts: YouTube channel providing summaries of military developments of ongoing conflicts. Has been consistently covering developments on the ongoing war. TLDR News Global: Independent online media gro...

The following text is a memo written by US Ambassador to Cyprus William Crawford to the US State Department on 29/04/76, describing the last days of the Greek Cypriot inhabitants of the village of Bellapais, after the Turkish invasion of 1974. Greek Cypriots lived in Bellapais until 1976. A newspaper article adding context to the memo can be located by pressing here. The text below has been adjusted from the memo for typos and other minor inconsistencies. The original can be found by pressing here.  — The last days of a Greek Cypriot village Before 1974, no village in Cyprus was better known for Charm, location and history than Bellapais. Sited in the Kyrenia hills looking northward to the Mediterranean, it had A Greek Cypriot population of over 1200, a delicately beautiful Crusader abbey, a reputation enhanced by Lawrence Durrell's "Bitter lemons", a modest community of foreign artists, Musicians, archaeologists, journalists and retired British. No Village, in fact, bett...

This book was published in the context of the exhibition entitled “(to the stones) we lent you our breath, and you whispered it back to the earth” at the Cyprus Pavilion at the 19th international architecture exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2025. It can be located by pressing here.

Article written by Zeynep G in 2005 and published on the website 'In Defence of Marxism'. Backup version can be located by pressing here.   ------- Cyprus is one of several countries that is to be admitted into the European Union in 2004. But there remains the problem of the unresolved national question on the island. Turkey's continued hold over the northern part of the island has become a major obstacle to Turkey being accepted as an EU member. The debate among the ruling elite in Turkey has swiftly turned into a blunt choice of "whether to abandon Cyprus or to annex it". This article by Zeynep Günes, a Turkish Marxist, presents a socialist perspective on the question of Cyprus. As membership of Cyprus to the EU draws closer, the pressure exerted by liberals in the Turkish press on Denktas (the president of the so-called, but unrecognised KKTC, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) has been increasing. All of a sudden they have started to complain ab...

I have encountered, on several occasions, rape denialism when talking with Cypriot pro-Palestinian leftists in relation to the October 7 Hamas attack. Since every such discussion has left me, frankly, nauseated, I decided to collect here some of the documented proof regarding the matter. I am responding here to one claim only, that rapes and sexual violence did not take place during Hamas' attack. I am not interested in writing a detailed rebuttal of every pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian propaganda point surrounding the narratives over sexual violence. Others are better equipped to do so than me, and indeed have done so. What I have encountered is not a discussion of such points, but merely the plain denial that sexual violence took place in any form or consistency. In relation to the facts themselves, we have reports and statements from credible organisations whose purpose is to document human rights violations across the globe, and who have not been shy of documenting atrocities ...