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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.
Authorities on the northern third of Cyprus unlawfully occupied since a 1974 Turkish invasion said residents there accused of crimes in other countries – including Turkey, won’t be extradited to face charges.
Baris Burcu, spokesman for Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, said that will extend in all cases after reports that Turkish authorities are investigating Turkisy-Cypriot academics and journalists, some of whom have European Union passports even though the occupied territory isn’t a member of the bloc.
He also said court rulings against Turkish-Cypriots in absentia won’t be honored and they have impunity from other countries even if they are convicted.
Citing the head of the occupied territory’s high court, Narin Sefik, Burcu said that extradition is “out of the question,” the Cyprus Mail reported.
Turkey’s chief prosecutor has brought suits against Afrika newspaper and two of its journalists, editor Sener Levent and Ali Osman.
Earlier this year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Cyprus and Turkey had violated the European Convention on Human Rights because they failed to co-operate in the investigation of the triple murder of the Turkish-Cypriot family gunned down in their car on the Nicosia-Larnaca highway in 2005.
Elmas Guzelyurtlu, his wife Zerrin, and their 15-year-old daughter Eylul were kidnapped from their home in Ayios Dometios, and driven to the location where they were later found dead on January 15, 2005.
The accused were criminals from the Turkish-Cypriot underworld but have never been tried and punished for the murder because of the lack of cooperation between Cyprus, Turkey, and the Turkish-Cypriots.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".