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By Margaret Sheard …..
We had been advised of a press conference for the Ozankoy Pekmez Festival which was held on Tuesday 22nd August and we went along to the village square where we met the Girne Mayor, Nidai Gűngördű and Ozankoy Mukhtar Mustafa Uzun. We were also pleased to meet up with Ziya Nasifoğlu, who supplies us with information about events and projects of the Girne Municipality, and following is the information sent to us about the press conference.
By Heidi Trautmann …..
Vounous…it sounds mystic…it is mystic, it is the story of the past of Cyprus. The island of Cyprus has always held a great importance for the people living around its circumference, only a stone’s throw away from the coasts in the north and the east and south, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Hittites took to their boats in those days of the Bronze Age, landed, settled, were conquered, started trading, and finally left samples of their culture in the soil of Cyprus, in the caves of the Five Finger Mountains, the Kyrenia mountain range. They buried their dead and gave them goods to have a comfortable journey into the land of the dead.
By Margaret Sheard ……
We were recently contacted by Bill Brown to see if we would be interested in seeing some of his late father’s old photographs taken circa 1963 in Cyprus. Naturally we were, so we asked Bill to send what he had and we would try to establish where the photographs were taken by producing an article on cyprusscene.com.
By Chris Krzentz……..
With the many trips back to Cyprus to discover much of its heritage and people, I have had so much support and help from my dear friend, Tuncer Bagiskan, the Turkish Cypriot retired archaeologist and in this video interview, I would like to share with you what he told us in October 2014.
