In my recently-penned post, The power of ‘words’ I spoke mainly about the role of the media on both sides of the island in propounding certain terms and turn of phrase: the perpetual use of inverted commas, use of the word ‘illegal’ and Greek (Cypriot) administration of the south. These…
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For many years now on both sides of the island, both communities have been reading newspapers (and probably other content too) that seem to highlight the estrangement, bitterness and finger-pointing that exists between the two communities: Turkish Cypriots in the north of the island and Greek Cypriots in the south.…
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Hi everyone, Just a quick note to say that I’m going under for a bit to try my hand at translating at least one or two blog posts into Turkish. This will indeed be a feat for me, as I’ll be translating from my mother tongue into my third language,…
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