Tag: Cyprus

Film
New documentary The Divided Island revisits the Cyprus Conflict ahead of the 50th anniversary of the 1974 War

A British Turkish Cypriot film director has set out to do what has rarely been done before: to produce a balanced and comprehensive account of the Cyprus conflict. Arriving in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the 1974 War, Cey Sesigüzel’s new 90-minute film The Divided Island uses archive footage, expert commentary, and testimony from […]

Art
Nurtane Karagil’s awareness project ‘Coastlines Waning: All for a few extra Sunbeds’ goes live on Cyprus billboards

The destruction of the natural environment, particularly Cyprus’s beautiful coastlines, has been highlighted in a powerful new awareness campaign created by artist Nurtane Karagil. Called ‘Coastline(s) Waning: All for a few extra Sunbeds’, Karagil’s collage of four scenes shows beaches dug up as if they are part of a construction site as people continue to […]

Talks
London talk: hear Dr Michael Riccioli’s lecture on ‘Anglo-Turkish Relations 1939-1980 and the Cyprus Strife’

In April, the Anglo-Turkish Society turns the spotlight on Britain’s historical role in Cyprus with a talk from Dr Michael A. Riccioli. The Istanbul-born and educated academic of Maltese descent is a retired senior lecturer and researcher from the Université Paris Dauphine, where he specialised in Anglo-Turkish relations. Any student of history will know that […]

Film
Director Cey Sesiguzel on why his Cyprus documentary offers a “fresh perspective”, as he appeals for funds to complete the film

An award-winning British Turkish Cypriot filmmaker has set out to do what most documentaries on the Cyprus Problem fail to achieve, to create a balanced and historically accurate film about this long-running, complex political dispute. Londoner Cey Sesiguzel started his film, The Divided Island, back in 2020 and is now in the final phase of […]