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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 – A former Turkish naval officer who sought asylum on Cyprus after fleeing his homeland in the wake of a failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly left the island.
Former Naval Captain Kadir Karaman, said to have ties to a Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric living in the United States that Erdogan blames for the coup plot, and his wife Nina Pozhidaeva had arrived on Cyprus on their luxury yacht on Oct. 1 seeking asylum on grounds they were being persecuted.
Erdogan has sacked scores of thousands of civil servants and military members and has mulled whether to put the death penalty on the table for the plotters.
Karaman and his wife were under police surveillance while staying on their yacht in the Larnaca marina before leaving, Agence France Presse reported.
When asked by reporters about the issue earlier this month, government spokesperson Nicos Christodoulides said he did not comment on “matters of national security,” as the government walked a delicate line over the matter.
The case of Karaman is thought to be the first time that a member of the Turkish Armed Forces has ever requested asylum on Cyprus, the legitimate government, not the northern third occupied by Turkey since an unlawful 1974 invasion.
Karaman’s identity had been revealed when he held a public phone conversation with one of sought “secret imams” of the network, as a part of an Izmir-based operation into the Gulen network.
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.