
Every year, on “national” days of celebration and remembrance, marked separately in the northern and southern Cyprus, politicians regurgitate dusty old speeches that portray the island as still defined by the 1960 constitutional communities: Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Armenians, Maronites and Latins. I have news for them – you are decades out of date.
Today’s Cyprus is far more diverse. In both the north and south, people from dozens of