Neither the ballot box nor the street alone can bring us peace. We need to conquer both to reunify our country.

Bourgeois democracy is a closed political system with definite limits and possibilities. Protecting the interests of capital is inscribed in the very logic of its operation and this can be seen in the constitutions of all states and more specifically in the supra state structure which goes under the name of European Union. [...]

Compromise

We’ve all panicked at least once in our lives by this word. In whichever union,co-union,reunion,division. In a relationship,in business,in marriage,in the community,in the society,in politics.

What is panic?

It is the sudden fear that is caused by a [...]

UNITED CYPRUS BI-COMMUNAL PEACE INITIATIVE

On Wednesday 24th March,2010 a panel discussion on “Solution and Peace”will be organized at the new building of Gonyeli Municipality in the Conference Hall.

Speakers:

1. Kate Clerides

2. Fatma Azgin

3. Themos Demetriou

4. Dr Sibel Siber

Wednesday 24th March,2010 at 8:00pm

Those in need of transport please call:Soteres Vlachos [...]

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Dear Gordios,I do not see a solution in the near future. But if it comes,it will be a happy surprise for me. But the problem will be its proper implementation. Unless Turkey turns into a democratic state,it will not be helpful for us. The almost 90 years of “Kemalist” Turkish State is [...]

Δικοινοτική πρωτοβουλία ειρήνης ΕΝΩΜΕΝΗ ΚΥΠΡΟΣ. Οδόφραγμα Λήδρας,σήμερα 19.15.

Η διαδικασία της επανένωσης δεν εξαρτάται μόνο που τους ηγέτες. Εξαρτάται κυρίως που τους πολιτικούς συσχετισμούς δυνάμεων μέσα στην κοινωνία. Για να πετύχουμεν την επανένωση εν κανεί να υπογράψουν ο Χριστόφκιας τζιαι ο Ταλάτ. Πιο σημαντικά χρειάζεται να δημιουργηθεί ένα πλειοψηφικό ρεύμα της λύσης τζιαι στες θκιο κοινότητες που θα την επικυρώσει τζιαι [...]

FORMS OF CYPRIOTISM IN THE TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY:OBSTACLES AND NECESSARY CONDITIONS

Dear Compatriots,

I would like you to read the following historical analysis and submit your views to this page. Do we need a common,pancyprian political party in order to realise a common vision for the future of our country? Or don’t you care if the partition,which was the aim of the super-NATO since [...]

Easier said than done.

I have stopped believing that reunification can be achieved through negotiations of the two sides’leaders. It has been tried enough times in the past 50 years to convince us that it cannot succeed. The elected leaders are inevitably products of the existing political systems of the two sides and always have and always will [...]

Διασταυρώνοντας τα οδοφράγματα

Πολλές φορές εστιάζουμεν στο βλέμμα μας στην κατεύθυνση της επίτευξης της συμφωνίας τζιαι αγνοούμεν ότι η επανένωση εν μπορεί να συμπυκνωθεί σε ένα κομμάτι χαρτί,συμβόλαιο συνεργασίας ή σύνταγμα. Η επανένωση εν κοινωνική διαδικασία στα μυαλά των Κυπραίων τζιαι επί του εδάφους της Κύπρου. Εν διαδικασία αντίληψης τζιαι δημιουργίας μιας ολικής Κύπρου που [...]

Cyprus at a crossroads

Once again Cyprus is at a crossroads. We are in anticipation that this time a dispute we have been born into will be resolved,our island will be reunited.   Well,at least some of us. The prevailing atmosphere in the North following the great disappointment of 2004 referendum is an increasing apathy at best and [...]

Δικοινοτική Πρωτοβουλία Ειρήνης “Ενωμένη Κύπρος”-Bi-communal Peace Initiative “United Cyprus”

4 Φεβρουαρίου,2010

Δελτίο Τύπου

Η Δικοινοτική Πρωτοβουλία Ειρήνης “Ενωμένη Κύπρος” καλωσόρισε την παρουσία του Γενικού Γραμματέα των Ηνωμένων Εθνών στην Κύπρο και τώρα χαιρετίζει με ικανοποίηση την ανακοίνωση σημαντικής προόδου στις συνομιλίες. Παράλληλα χαιρετίζει με εξίσου μεγάλη ικανοποίηση το γεγονός ότι οι συνομιλίες θα συνεχιστούν τους επόμενους μήνες παρά τις [...]

February 3rd,2003,New York City

Date:February 3rd,2003

Location:New York City

Our Slogans:Speak-up For Cyprus! and Unite Cyprus!

Time passes by 1,it has already been seven years since we had a demonstration in New York city. I am going to use the anniversary of that (most insignificant)event as an excuse to reminisce about the past. Time [...]

Mobilisations today north and south of the green line in the presence of the UN Secretary General

Today there was a public intervention by the bicommunal peace initiative “United Cyprus” in both south and north of the Ledra Street checkpoint. People gathered with pickets and banners in Greek,Turkish and English claiming that “Cyprus is too small to be divided” and “Peace cannot be stopped in Cyprus”,demanding “Solution Now” [...]

An event making history:Reunification now!

On Tuesday 26.1.2010,the coldest night of the year,we had an excellent event with over 150 people. Despite the short time we had to put it together and the communication difficulties we had a well attended event that in the words of Takis Hadjidemetriou was an event making history. Making History because we are [...]

Reunification:social meaning and political significance

The solution of the Cyprus problem and the re-unification of the country constitutes a rapture with the existing socio-political status quo and the transition to a new historical era. The magnitude and the multiple dimensions of this rapture are often difficult to conceptualize,since we are incapable of thinking outside the partitionist context. [...]

Some thoughts on identity.

William Ralph Inge famously said “A nation is a society that nourishes a common delusion about its ancestry and shares a common hatred for its neighbors.”

There’s no need even to argue that nationalism is the root of Cyprus’division. What was for some people the ideals of freedom and self-determination in [...]

Bi-communal Peace Initiative United Cyprus:intervention at Ledra street checkpoint on Monday at 18.00 and on Tuesday at 17.00

January 2010 has been set as the month of intensive negotiations. The negotiation process is gradually coming into a crucial phase. It has been the expectation that by now the process would have been at a more advanced stage but given the state of affairs it is now time for the Civil Movement on both [...]

English articles at Epanenosi.com

Epanenosi.com will soon be publishing articles written in English.

People who would like to discuss matters relevant to the Cyprus problem and the reunification of the island,but are not native speakers of the Greek language,will soon be able to read content and exchange opinions in a language they understand.

Turkish Cypriots have been [...]