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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 – On a visit to Cyprus on the day Turkey marked the anniversary of declaring an unrecognized republic on the northern third of the island seized in unlawful invasions in 1974, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said provocations should not go unpunished.
He noted a United Nations declaration in 1983 condemned Turkey backing a government on the occupied side where there are still 35,000 Turkish troops, no other country in the world apart from Turkey accepting the alleged republic.
“Turkey continues to act illegally,” said Dendias, noting a move to further open the abandoned resort of Varosha on the occupied side in defiance of other UN resolutions, as well as Turkey drilling for energy in Cypriot waters.
During the recent meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, both Dendias and his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides said the bloc should act against Turkey but that’s gone unanswered.
But Dendias also said that doesn’t mean there isn’t room to talk through differences and disputes over the seas.
He said there isn’t, “The slightest punitive attitude toward Turkish society,” adding that, “We hope that one day Turkey will embrace international law, stop promoting a neo-Ottoman, revisionist agenda, stop having destabilizing dreams,” said Kathimerini.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.