Glafkos Clerides: The Path of a Country

Glafkos Clerides
The Path of a Country

Niyazi Kizilyurek

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Product ID: RP-1-0017
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Format: 210 x 150 mm
Page: 280
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Rimal Publications, Cyprus
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9963-610-34-X
ISBN 13: 978-9963-610-34-1

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Translated into English by Katherine Clerides

“essential reading for all diplomats posted to Cyprus .”

Ingemar Lindhal - Swedish Ambassador to Cyprus

The young lawyer that defended EOKA fighters in British colonial courts, the first president of the Cypriot House of Representatives, and for ten years the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Glafkos Clerides met with the Turkish Cypriot Professor Niyazi Kizilyurek in an intellectual journey in the modern political history of Cyprus. They discussed the most important aspects of the Cyprus problem. The narration of Glafkos Clerides covers the period from 1950 up to the referendum on the Annan Plan 2004. He indicates and analyzes the responsibilities of each political leadership. At the same time, the account of the Turkish Cypriot professor for the responsibilities of the Turkish and the Turkish Cypriot side in the Cyprus deadlock completes the whole historical and political picture.

The book, Glafkos Clerides: The Path of a Country, is an important document for anyone who wants to understand the long-standing Cyprus problem and derive their own lessons for the future.

Content:

Map of Cyprus
Prologue
The World of Glafkos Clerides
- Family background and early school years
- To England for studies
- A pilot in the Second World War
- Marriage to Lila Erulkar
- Return to Cyprus and first steps in politics
- Caught between his Father and the Archbishop
- Clerides gets to know Rauf Denktash
Archbishop Makarios' Dilemmas and Interal Conflicts
- The road to the signing of the Zurich-London Agreements
- The Greek Cypriots were not prepared for independence
- The Turkish Cypriots and independence
- The constitution of the Republic of Cyprus
Relations between Athens and Nicosia
- The events of 1964
- The arrest of Rauf Denktash in 1967
- From the inter-communal conflict to the Turkish invasion
- AKEL through the eyes of Glafkos Clerides
Glafkos Clerides Forced to Resign
- The founding of the Democratic Rally
- The Greek Cypriot community between realism and romanticism
- The relationship between Clerides and AKEL
Glafkos Clerides: 4th President of the Republic
- The relationship between Greek and Turkish Cypriots
- Turkish Cypriots
The Annan Plan and its Failure
- The Greek Cypriot 'NO' and the future of Cyprus
Appendix I - IV

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Niyazi Kizilyurek was born in Potamia, a mixed village in the Nicosia area. His family became refugees during the bi-communal conflict in 1963-64, and moved to the Turkish Cypriot ghetto Lourijina where he lived until 1974. He graduated from the University of Bremen in Germany in 1983, where he also obtained his PhD in 1990. In 1995 he was elected as lecturer for the department of Turkish Studies at the University of Cyprus where he works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, and is also the head of Political Science.

A keen social researcher, Kizilyurek's work is well respected on both sides of his divided homeland. He is the author of many books in both Greek and Turkish languages.

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