Island Talks

Η εμπλοκή του Μάριος Επαμεινώνδας με ΜΚΟ ως εργαλεία που μπορούν να δώσουν νόημα στη ζωή.  Μια συζήτηση που θα σε οδηγήσει βήμα βήμα προς τη κοινωνική συνείδηση και τη δημιουργία της εσωτερικής ικανοποίησης. Το podcast Life Light παράγεται και παρουσιάζεται από την Anna Michael.

Cyprus is the land of impossible fantasies. One side thinks that the international community is now ready to accept a "two-state solution" in Cyprus, the other tries to play a global chess-game with a non-feasible, unrealistic "East Med Pipeline Project", something which was doomed to fail from the beginning. In this episode of Nicosia Uncut, Andromachi Sophocleous and Kemal Baykalli discuss how the East Med Pipeline Project has falsely been promoted as a diplomatic success story for the internal consumption by the Greek Cypriot politicians. In the local scene, we have the elections mood in the air: The Turkish Cypriots will go to the ballots on 23 January 2022 to choose their representatives, while the the Republic of Cyprus Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides has quit his post, another sign that he will be running in the presidential campaign that will take place early 2023. Highlight of the week was the celebrations by the supporters of the new UBP leader, Dr. Faiz Sucuoğlu, for finally getting that appointment from the Turkish President, R. T. Erdoğan!

Dünyada, ama özellikle de ABD ve İngiltere gibi ülkelerde, başını gençlerin çektiği bir büyük istifa dalgası olduğu söyleniyor. Bunun gerçek mi, abartı mı, dönemsel bir oluşum mu yoksa yeni bir çalışma kültürü değişimi mi olduğuna dair tartışmalar devam ediyor. Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde, Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan, büyük istifa dalgasını, Don't Look Up filmini ve peated whisky'i tartıştılar. Islay Mist'i tattılar. Garip Zamanlar Facebook sayfasındaki paylaşımları kimlerin yaptığını ifşa ettiler. Sosyal medyada takipçilerini etkileme potansyeli taşıyan "influencer"leri ve içerik üreticilerini teğet geçtiler. Yeni yıl beklentilerini hiç konuşmadılar. Island Talks istasyonundaki - www.islandtalks.fm - yeni İngilizce kültür podcastı "Sesta"yı (hazırlayan Meltem Burak) herkese tavsiye ettiler.

Μια συζήτηση για το εθελοντικό έργο του Μάριου Αντονίου στο Sistema Cyprus καθώς και άλλες δράσεις του που πρόκειται να εμπνεύσει τη δική σου πορεία.

2021’in son Garip Zamanlar programında Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan yılın bir muhasebesini yapıyorlar. Ama bu muhasebede ne ekonomik krizler ne de siyasi sıkıntılar var. Sertaç Sonan’ın İstanbul ve Berlin izlenimleri; Evren İnançoğlu’nun yılın en iyi film adayları ve Kemal Baykallı’nın istifayı basan genç kuşağa dair aktarımı Garip Zamanlar’da..

The Turkish Cypriot economy is badly hit following the meltdown of the Turkish lira. Being an import oriented economy based on services, economy in the north was already fragile due to the pandemic. The depreciation of the Turkish lira affected northern part of the island even more than Turkey since the slider at the volume of trade is almost maxed on the import side, whereas the Turkish Cypriot exports are almost non-existent. In this episode of Nicosia Uncut, Andromachi Sophocleous and Kemal Baykallı also talk about the EU's Green Line Regulation which regulates the crossing of people, goods and services across the division line and the EU-aid to the Turkish Cypriots. Long queues at the crossing points continue and sides fail to develop effective remedies to allow easy crossing across the line. In the meantime, RoC's unrealistic expectations to implement EU sanctions on Turkey collapsed in Brussels.

In this special episode of Nicosia Uncut, Andromachi Sophocleous and Kemal Baykallı discuss and analyse the content, context and the implications of the leaked UN minutes with the delegations on the last day (6 July 2017) of the Cyprus conference in Crans Montana which ended without any agreement. Also known as "Crash Montana", the failure effectively ended the efforts to find a solution to the Cyprus problem, leading to a blame game between the sides since then. The leaked UN minutes, as collected on this episode page - www.islandtalks.fm , demonstrated how the chapter on security and guarantees was the main source of disagreement in an environment heavily fortified with mistrust. The leaked documents also shed some light on the role of the UN and the EU in the latest talks.

Garip Zamanlar'ın mükemmel dönüşü! Kaç bölümdür gündeme gelen mükemmeliyetçiliğin patolojik halini ele alan Sertaç Sonan, Evren İnançoğlu ve Kemal Baykallı arzularımızın aslında kimin arzusu olduğunu, arzuları gerçekleştirmenin imkansızlığını, rekabetin protestant ahlakla bağını, Kore sinemasını, Almanya mütehassısı Sertaç'ın Berlin'e ilk gidişini ve Almanya'da kurulan trafik ışığı koalisyonunu konuştular.

In this episode of Figure It, Sapienta Economics Director Fiona Mullen talks to Dr Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Transitional Justice at the Cyprus campus of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), about the many and often confusing figures cited by Republic of Cyprus officials about various categories of non-Cypriots: regular migrants, irregular migrants, asylum-seekers, refugees and even non-Cypriot children. What do all these categories mean? Do the government’s figures add up? Are the claims that people are being sent over the UN-monitored buffer zone (Green Line) by the Turkish government credible? And how do various other numbers cited compared with the proportion of registered workers here? More about Nasia Hadjigeorgiou at http://www.nasiahadjigeorgiou.com - Twitter: https://twitter.com/NHadjigeorgiou

In this episode of Nicosia Uncut, Andromachi Sophocleous and Kemal Baykallı explore the reconciliation initiatives in Cyprus - Home for Cooperation, Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus, Cyprus Dialogue Forum, Famagusta Avenue Garage and The Base by Cyprusinno are few to name. In the local politics, Turkish Cypriot right wing UBP party had a leadership race, electing Dr.Faiz Sucuoğlu as the new leader of the party and the new PM until the early elections which is expected to take place in early 2022. 2023 presidential elections of RoC enhanced the rivalries within the Greek Cypriot right wing DISY party, some independents have already announced that they are running. Last but not least, the West is cautiously waiting for the 2023 elections in Turkey, and it seems that Erdoğan is finally losing steam according to the latest polls.

Home for Cooperation: https://www.home4cooperation.info/

Cyprus Dialogue Forum: https://cydialogue.org/

The Base by Cyprusinno: https://thebasecy.com/

The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus: http://tcchcyprus.com/

Famagusta Avenue Garage: https://www.facebook.com/famagusta.garage/