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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 – In what could be a deal-breaker, Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said he wants a Turkish army to stay on the island as part of any unity deal.
Turkey has a 35,000-strong army on the northern third it has unlawfully occupied since a 1974 invasion and Akinci, readying for three days of talks in Geneva starting Jan. 9, 2017 with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, said it will stay.
Anastasiades has said the army wouldn’t be allowed under any deal but it could be left up to the guarantors of security on the island – the United Kingdom, Turkey and Greece – to decide when they join the talks on Jan. 12, along with the European Union and United Nations.
Akinci told the Turkish service of the BBC that if Greece and Cyprus insist on a settlement which includes “no guarantees and no armies,” then “negotiations will end before they even begin.”
Greece wants to end its role as a guarantor but Turkish-Cypriots want their army as a safeguard and Akinci said it’s needed
“I want a preventive force so that we don’t live such days (of war) again,” he said, although he added that Turkey would not annex the island’s occupied part in the event that negotiations and the summit do not lead to a solution.
The Greek Foreign Ministry’s General Secretary Nikos Paraskevopoulos and his aides landed in Ankara on Dec. 29 for talks with Turkish officials, and to lay the groundwork for a possible meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said while Greece still supports Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union – even though Erdogan refuses to recognize Cyprus, which is already a member, and bars its ships and planes – that this “doesn’t depend on us or the EU, but on their choices and their will.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.