My Story
An embargo on the Cyprus Turkish Medical Profession,
We have been under embargoes for about forty years. No one in the world bothers to enquire how and under what conditions Turkish Cypriot doctors are educated, or how we maintain our professional development. Only when it comes to serious illnesses and disease outbreaks does the international...
Embargoed by my bank!
For more than three years Lloyds Bank tsb seems to have been operating an embargo on North Cyprus when it comes to sending out new credit and cash cards.No other bank has this policy, nor any credit card company and yet, for some mysterious reason Lloyds Bank envelopes, when they eventually reach...
I’m just a footballer
My name is Mehmet Ali Ozgürgün and I was born in Cyprus on 9 July 1967. My whole life has involved sport, especially football. From 1981 to 2000, I played as left midfield for Çetinkaya Türk Spor Kulübü – one of the most successful football clubs in Cyprus....
Mail Menopause?
Submitted November 2009.For many years British expatriates living in the TRNC have suffered the frustrations of mail that has never arrived. Tax demands, or anything else in an official – looking envelope got through; birthday and Christmas cards, or anything else of a personal nature, often...
News is sacred, comment is free – but not in Cyprus
Foreign Press Association, or DBB, was established on 15 February 1992 with the purpose of protecting the rights of the members, developing their social and professional relations, and supplying solidarity between local and foreign press members. The main activities of the association also include...
We thought sport was for all?
Submitted 26 April, 2006 As you know, many years of negotiations in Cyprus were compiled in a comprehensive plan called the Annan Plan, which was a compromise between the two communities as it reflected the judgment of the UN. Unexpectedly, the Plan was rejected by the Greek Cypriots and...
