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Episode:

Cyprus: coups and clubbing
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:51:05
Publish Date: 2024-07-19 23:30:00
Description:

Max Pearson presents this week's Witness History interviews on the history of Cyprus. Our guest is Dr Antigone Heraclidou, Senior Research Associate at CYENS Centre of Excellence in Cyprus.

We hear Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot perspectives on the island's 1974 coup and subsequent invasion.

Then, a Cypriot Olympic sailing hero takes us back to the London 2012 Games.

And finally the 'Godfather of Ayia Napa' tells us how the island became a party destination.

Contributors: Dr Antigone Heraclidou, Senior Research Associate at CYENS Centre of Excellence in Cyprus. Bekir Azgun - Turkish Cypriot writer. Captain Adamos Marneros - landed final flight at Nicosia Airport. Nicoletta Demetriou - returned to her family home in 2003. Pavlos Kontides - Cypriot Olympic sailor. Nick Power - DJ and 'Godfather of Ayia Napa'.

(Photo: Greek Cypriot soldier killed in the 1974 conflict. Credit: Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
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