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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 — Ahead of the 47th year of marking Turkey's invasion and occupation of the northern third of Cyprus, Turkish-Cypriot hardliner leader Ersin Tatar – who has rejected reunification – repeated he wants two separate states and recognition.
He said rights of the minority Turkish-Cypriots, who make up only about a fifth of the divided island's population, have to be protected even at the cost of leaving them isolated in the world.
Aligning himself with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he said that, “Cyprus has undergone big incidents, a big genocide had taken place, yet with the support of Turkey, here we are. We have a state, we have a republic,” Turkey's pro-government newspaper The Daily Sabah said.
“An agreement to decrease tensions between Turkey and Greece in order for balances to be created in the Eastern Mediterranean would benefit everyone,” he said, without explaining how that would be the case for Greek-Cypriots.
“The Turkish people must never forget the incidents that happened in Cyprus because everything had been done for Cyprus to become a Greek island. Yet, with Turkey’s support, we resisted there. And we continue to resist,” Tatar added.
As for Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades' insistence on a federation and reunification, Tatar said that, “Cyprus as a whole being admitted to the European Union under a federal roof, would mean that our ties with Turkey are being cut. We will never allow our ties with Turkey to be broken off”.
The legitimate government of Cyprus is a member of the EU but Tatar said he doesn't want any part of that and only recognition for the occupied territory that Anastasiades has rejected out of hand being put on the table for talks for now.
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.