HHF Presents

Cyprus and its politics and economics since 1974. The role Canadian peacekeepers played in Cyprus and efforts to bring lasting peace through a bizonal bicommunal federation.

The 1974 invasion created many Cypriot refugees – both Greek and Turkish. This episode examines the Cypriot diaspora across the globe, how it maintains its ethnicity and ties with the island. 

The events that led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on July 20, 1974 and what happened to Cypriot citizens on both sides of the Green Line.    

The Republic of Cyprus gained its independence from Great Britain in 1960. This episode looks at the road to nationhood and how coexistence between the ethnic Greek and ethnic Turkish populations was troubled from the start. 

Everything you need to know about Cyprus: its distinctiveness, culture, history and how it fits into a larger Hellenic world. 

The aftermath of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising and the return to democracy. 

On November 14, 1973, students barricade themselves inside the Athens Polytechnio. In the end, there would be bloodshed, but history was made. 

How people in the arts reacted to the military dictatorship and how counterculture tried to drown out that resistance.

As many Greeks flee the military dictatorship, places like Toronto take on an important role in the resistance. 

Trying to protest the new military dictatorship was a dangerous thing to do.  How the Colonels silenced their opponents...