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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 — Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) party denounced the Cypriot government for issuing a postage stamp marking the 65th anniversary of the EOKA para-military group that Turkey calls terrorist.
AKP spokesman Omer Celik tweeted that, “EOKA is a massacre network. This terrorist organization that killed the Turkis Cypriots ruthlessly can only be remembered with a curse,” he added.
He stressed that the Greek Cypriot administration's commemoration of EOKA shows that “it still supports this murder network,” Turkey’s state-run Anadolu News Agency said.
“The Turkish-Cypriots existed and will continue to exist by fighting these murderous organizations,” he said, adding that Turkey will never stop aiding Turkish-Cypriots who have occupied the northern third of the island since an unlawful 1974 Turkish invasion.
In a separate statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said: “EOKA, of which 66th anniversary was celebrated with commemoration ceremonies by the Greek Cypriot administration of Southern Cyprus, is a terrorist organization for Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot people.”
"The pain caused by the inhumane massacres carried out by this terrorist organization between 1963-1974, with the aim to eliminate the existence of the Turkish Cypriots on the Island, remains fresh in the memories," the ministry said.
EOKAl’s aim was for the unification of Cyprus with mainland Greece and took part in a coup that led to Turkey invading, what it called a “peace mission,” where Turkish troops killed civilians and took captives.
EOKA, for Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston fought a campaign for the end of British rule in Cyprus, and for eventual union with Greece but after years of bloodshed relented and accepted a compromise.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.