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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NICOSIA – Relatives of the 17 Greek soldiers who were killed in fighting during Turkey’s 1974 invasion, stand in front of the coffins with identified remains during a solemn ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Lord’s Wisdom in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus.
On Friday, the remains will be returned to Greece on a Greek Air Force transport aircraft. Most of the 17 soldiers were serving with the Greek military contingent that was stationed on the island at the time. Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup mounted by supporters of uniting the island with Greece.
Greek soldiers carried the coffins with identified remains while a Greek Orthodox priest blessed them during the ceremony.
A Greek Orthodox priest walks by the coffins containing the remains of the 17 Greek soldiers who were killed in fighting during Turkey’s 1974 invasion, during a solemn ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Lord’s Wisdom in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 26, 2017. The remains will be returned to Greece on a Greek Air Force transport aircraft. Most of the 17 soldiers were serving with the Greek military contingent that was stationed on the island at the time. Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup mounted by supporters of uniting the island with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Relatives of the 17 Greek soldiers who were killed in fighting during Turkey’s 1974 invasion, stand in front of the coffins with identified remains during a solemn ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Lord’s Wisdom in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 26, 2017. The remains will be returned to Greece on a Greek Air Force transport aircraft. Most of the 17 soldiers were serving with the Greek military contingent that was stationed on the island at the time. Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup mounted by supporters of uniting the island with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
A portrait of a Greek dead soldier, one of 17 identified Greek soldiers who were killed in fighting during Turkey’s 1974 invasion, placed on his coffin inside a car, during a solemn ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Lord’s Wisdom in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 26, 2017. The remains will be returned to Greece on a Greek Air Force transport aircraft. Most of the 17 soldiers were serving with the Greek military contingent that was stationed on the island at the time. Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup mounted by supporters of uniting the island with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
A Greek Orthodox priest blesses coffins with identified remains of the 17 Greek soldiers who were killed in fighting during Turkey’s 1974 invasion, during a solemn ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Lord’s Wisdom in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Greek soldiers carrying the coffins with identified remains of the 17 Greek soldiers who were killed in fighting during Turkey’s 1974 invasion, during a solemn ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Lord’s Wisdom in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 26, 2017. The remains will be returned to Greece on a Greek Air Force transport aircraft. Most of the 17 soldiers were serving with the Greek military contingent that was stationed on the island at the time. Turkey invaded in the wake of a coup mounted by supporters of uniting the island with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
In this Wednesday, May 31, 2017 photo, a bulldozer and workers of Cyprus Missing Persons of the two communities work together during an excavation in a field for missing persons in the Turkish breakaway northern part of divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
