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Στη Γαληνόπωρνη (Η γαλήνη της αυγής).

https://youtu.be/K3a_rnR98KM?si=KyVLAd41yanibFTP Στη Γαληνόπωρνη (Η γαλήνη της αυγής ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ: Η ιστορία αυτή περιέχει πικρές αλήθειες που πιθανόν να ενοχλήσουν. Αυστηρώς ακατάλληλο για μισαλλόδοξους και για όσους δεν αποδέχονται την αλήθεια των άλλων. Το φετινό Πάσχα θέλησα να το περάσω στην τουρκοκρατούμενη Καρπασία, μαζί με Μωαμεθανούς συμπατριώτες μας που μιλούν ελληνικά και τους γνώρισα στην τελευταία μου επίσκεψη δυο – τρεις βδομάδες πριν. Είχα μαζί μου και τον αδελφό μου σαν οδηγό, για να μπορώ με άνεση να βλέπω την διαδρομή και να χαζεύω την θέα γύρω μου. Ξεκινήσαμε νωρίς το πρωί και πάνω στην ώρα του πρωινού καφέ βρεθήκαμε έξω από το σπίτι του Ερόλ στη Λυθράγκωμη, δίπλα από την εκκλησία της Παναγίας της Κανακαριάς. Ο Ερόλ είδε το αυτοκίνητο μας που πέρασε στην αυλή του και με απορία μας πλησίασε. Όταν κατάλαβε ποιοι είμαστε, χαμογέλασε και φώναξε: Καλώς τους, πως από εδώ; Αφού ανταποδώσαμε τον χαιρετισμό, του είπαμε πως γιορτάζαμε το Πάσχα και σκεφτήκαμε να του κάνουμε μια...

Celebrating Easter with Muslim compatriots.

https://youtu.be/nfeE9UIcMy0?si=kPAFdl9cbb134BXB Celebrating Easter with Muslim compatriots. An example of pure human relations. As every year, the same this year, I was invited for Easter lunch at my niece’s in-laws. For this purpose my sister from Larnaca called asking me to follow them, I told her that I had decided something different this year and I explained my plans. I wanted to go to the Turkish Cypriot village of Galinoporni to meet Tzi afer and Salih who speak Greek since birth. My plan was to have my first stop at Lythragkomi village to have a morning coffee with Erol who at present lives in the house of the priest of the nearby church of Kanakaria. Erol is a retired man from Koshi village who also speak good Greek. Both these Muslim friends, I met for the first time on my last visit to the Turkish-occupied Karpasia. I put in the car some flaounes, few red eggs, wine and some coffee as Easter gifts, enough for any occasion. At the Turkish checkpoint at Strovilia was on ...

Deryneia. The people and their culture.

https://youtu.be/4kyk4u4IQ2Y?si=KutintDFyioi-pgv Deryneia. The people and their culture. The village of Deryneia lies on a hill at the southeastern end of Cyprus, about five kilometers south of Famagusta and at an altitude of 70 meters above the sea level. According to the census of 2011 Deryneia has 5758 residents excluding residents of Kato Deryneia who are now scattered all over Cyprus, refugees in their own land. Deryneia has been upgraded to a municipality in 1994 and the municipal boundaries include Deryneia, Strovilia, the Turkish occupied village of Kato Deryneia and the refugee’s settlement. Deryneia has an area of 32.31 sq km of which 21.63 square kilometers located in the occupied area and in the buffer zone. Deryneia is bordering Paralimni, Sotira, Frenaros, the British Bases, Acheritou and Famagusta. Traditionally Deryneia was a rural village and the residents were poor farmers and ranchers who occasionally cultivated cereals, grapes, pomegranates, madder root...