While in Polis Chrysochous on 17 June 2015 I visited a man named Christodoulos, a school teacher who was born in 1929. The day that he finished primary school his teacher came to his house. Christodoulos’s father Yiannis thought that he was in trouble but the teacher said “No! He is my best pupil and I want him to continue […]
On 19 June, my father and I crossed the Ledra Street border to meet our friend Ibrahim from Morphou and his close friend Christos. They took us to meet Tayfun, Ibrahim’s brother-in-law who grew up in Agia Irini / Akdeniz. Tayfun had a bold, yet warm and vibrant presence about him. We met him in his currency exchange shop where […]
On 17 June 2015 I visited Polis Chrysochous again. I interviewed Father Andreas, an 88-year-old priest who welcomed us into his home with so much warmth. He was the first in his family to become a priest and was ordained as a Deacon by Archbishop Makarios III. Father Andreas had not finished high school, but once he had become a […]
On 13 June 2015 I visited the village of Kontea / Türkmenköy in the north of Cyprus. I had found out from a friend that a special concert was taking place and I could not resist – I had to go! The concert organized at the grassroots level, bringing together the Greek and Turkish Cypriots of Kontea, and was performed […]
Stories of Friendship from Cyprus 
Recent Comments