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A 30-year military stand-off between Cyprus and Turkey leaves a country and a people split.

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12 responses // Split/Cyprus

  • Very well done! Great topic and the photography is fantastic. It really matches up with your track. I also really like the style of your interviews.

    vigliotti
  • Nice work with the editing, this is a remarkable piece. Glad I could help bring this important issue to the table.
    Emmhisattva
  • Another excellent piece of ethnographic film, Adam! This is a topic that definitely doesn't get enough attention in the media. You did a good job of showing both sides of the story. But I agree, Turkey should withdraw its troops because it is an illegal occupation.
    ArmchairSubversive
  • Great work, some of your best yet. I love how the epic and eerie music helps to create the phenomenological experience of being in a walled city and all the anxieties that come with that.
    sarahbelle
  • Perfect - every second of this was necessary and powerful. I agree that the soundtrack could not have been better suited to the piece.

    Great work Adam.
    Goblinmerchant
  • RawBirdy:

    Golden on all fronts: Narrative, cinematics, importance, sexy people, music.

    Best I've seen yet. If I saw this on Frontline, I'd blip them an email congratulating them.

    onward, over, in your mouth
    -rgb M.D.

    ps: how about something on Parkour?
    Scantron
  • Wow. Well done! I love the camera/editing style. This is excellent piece of visual ethnography. It really is a shame how little people in the US know about this subject. Thank you for bringing the knowledge!
    jblue62
  • With the failing of the referendum, it seems the
    "psychological weapons of mass destruction" are very effective(GREAT phrase, btw...)

    Question: How do you reason people out of their passion(fear)?

    Are there any Turkish Catholics left in Turkey?
    Did Murat( activist northerner w/ southern girlfriend at the end of the piece) say, "(Un)Fortunately, we are living together."?
    His responses were short and a bit unclear.

    Generally, well done. Appreciated the insight into that part of the world.
    idavitch
  • Hi there Rowbird,

    It is wonderful that you took an interest in an issue that the international media seems to overlook completely. At the same time, there are some inaccuracies that need to be addressed:

    a) You mention that the Greek south is predominately Orthodox/Catholic. Greek-Cypriots are predominately Greek Orthodox though there is a very small Catholic community (Maronite) living on the island as well (9000 people out of a population of about 780000).
    b) The UN did not split the island. This is a de facto division after the 1974 events. You are probably referring to the 1963 division of Nicosia (which is a different matter).
    c) The 1974 coup was staged by the paramilitary group EOKA B with the help of the Greek Junta (rather than "Greeks and Greek Cypriots"). It was staged against President Makarios who had the support of the overwhelming majority of Greek Cypriots.

    Again, great job!

    Anti


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  • I was born and raised in Cyprus and I have to say that you have made a good effort in putting this issue in perspective. It is very hard to achieve in 8 minutes and there are a lot of points that need to be elaborated more in order to give the full perspective. I think that your last three points are the most important and they explain better what was said earlier. The occupied area is not recognized as a country (even though there are advertisements for it in the London underground) and that is why your passport was not stamped. The american scholar was speaking for the Turkish-Cypriot part and that was not clear, at the time because Nicosia and Cyprus as you pointed out at the end with the reference to the Cyprus Pound is a strong economy. But the occupied part is the opposite but there are a lot of grands that now go towards them. More importantly though, it was not mentioned why 75% of the Greek Cypriots did not vote in favor of the referendum. It is not because they do not want a solution. It is because they need a working solution and not an enforced solution like it was done in 1960 and one which let the 1974 invasion as well as the conflicts before that between some members of the two communities. Once again though, as an outsider and given the duration of the piece, this was a very good effort.
    michael_kalopedis
  • This is a fantastic Video.Your handling of the subject matter was awesome and also incisive for someone who is not connected with this beautiful country and its GREAT people.
    Tony
    uktony
  • Adam,

    Please don't take down your Cyprus video. It's a great one, and I'm using it to spread word about a novel conflict resolution idea I have for Nicosia that "no one yet" has considered - a day school for the children of the two side's leaders. It's a bit more complicated than that, but I know I'm ahead of the UN and UNFICYP on this. See www.1for2.org and www.cypriotschool.org .

    Mind you, the school will have to take 40 years or so before catalyzing a solution - that is the rub. However, as long as the leaders on each side continue to have children, there will be a need for a school for their kids. My goal is to make it the same school, and The English School doesn't do the job adequately enough for those among the TC politicians most hardened against the GCs. There's not enough room to explain that point here.

    Cheers, Mills
    Mills

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