Latest research by the RSPB and BirdLife Cyprus have found that over 800,000 birds were trapped and killed illegally on a British military base in Cyprus last autumn and used as the main ingredient for the local and expensive delicacy of ambelopoulia, illegally served to restaurant diners. To prove how the law against eating these birds is easily flouted without fear of prosecution you only have to read about Evgenios Hamboullas, a member of the Environment Committee in the south’s House of Representatives, uploading an image of this meal on Facebook with the caption: “Soon in our restaurants! Happy Holidays!”
Let’s start with the statements from the Exit camp, Boris Johnson being a prime example. Writing in his column in the Daily Telegraph he carefully explains why ex-pats will not have to worry about voting to leave the EU. They were not cutting the branch they were sitting on because:
When the two Cyprus Presidents met on Friday it was, in effect, to agree that a solution to the 40 year Cyprus Problem will not be solved in the near future, if ever.
Punters have been offered 1000-1 odds that there will be a solution to the Cyprus Problem! These odds were offered by Alper Ali Riza who is a Queen’s Counsel and part time judge in the UK. He did however make clear that these odds would only apply if a Greek Cypriot majority were to vote ‘Yes’ in a referendum which contained the institutional design of a rotating presidency.
For the first time since 1977 a National Council party leader read out in public the minutes of their meetings. South Cyprus EDEK leader Marinos Sizopoulos revealed the minutes of what took place on September 5th and December 8th. Several points were new, for example in a newly formed Cyprus residents would be divided into four categories, each with different rights:
Turkey and the EU appear to have almost reached an agreement over the refugee crisis with EU leaders about to accept Turkey’s offer to take back all the refugees who entered Europe from Turkey. The EU also appears to have agreed in principle to all of Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s demands. Turkey will be given double the €3 billion they were originally offered, visa free travel for Turks would be brought forward to June and EU membership talks would be accelerated, including opening chapters that South Cyprus had been objecting to.
Well that’s the way the Turkish Cypriot argument goes. According to them it belongs to Evkaf, a Muslim charity dating back to the Ottoman conquest of 1571.
There have been complaints that some shopkeeper at the Buyuk Han (The Great Inn) in Lefkosa, North Cyprus, are putting up white sheets to use as sunshades. There is even a Facebook page called ‘Let’s Protect our Cultural Heritage’ (Tarihi Eserlerimizi Koruyalim) which complains the sheets are not in line with the historic culture and should be removed. What will replace them is yet another issue and the Evkaf Administration are yet to solve the problem causing locals to criticise the Turkish Cypriot antiquities department for not doing their job to get the unsightly covers removed.
Latest research by the RSPB and BirdLife Cyprus have found that over 800,000 birds were trapped and killed illegally on a British military base in Cyprus last autumn and used as the main ingredient for the local and expensive delicacy of ambelopoulia, illegally served to restaurant diners. To prove how the law against eating these birds is easily flouted without fear of prosecution you only have to read about Evgenios Hamboullas, a member of the Environment Committee in the south’s House of Representatives, uploading an image of this meal on Facebook with the caption: “Soon in our restaurants! Happy Holidays!”
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