SOLUTION: HOW CLOSE TO CYPRUS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE EAST and NORTH CYPRUS

Prof. Dr. Ata ATUN
NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY

SOLUTION: HOW CLOSE TO CYPRUS

For the time being it looks quite far away, although the leaders play the role of “Lords of Peace”.
The AKEL leader is always talking about a solution, but of course it has a particular meaning for him.

It is quite wondering how Mr. Christofias will settle the Cyprus dispute based on “bi-communal, bi-zonal federation based on political equality” while the past two resolutions are directing him to the eternal Greek dream, the Enosis.

AKEL also did not object to the declaration of the “Cyprus Hellenic Republic” on July 16, 1974 by coup d’état-installed socalled President Nikos Sampson, the notorious killer of innocent Turkish Cypriot civilians.

AKEL, in fact is one of the very few still existing political parties in the world, has been arguing since the very beginning that the Turkish and the Greek Cypriots should live together on the island peacefully.

Although Christofias was among the opponents of the Annan plan before the 2004 referendum on it, he saw that things were moving in the direction of partition. So he argued for a United Cyprus in his recent election campaign.

After his official victory, he extended his hand to the Turkish side and said that he would restart the peace process. Compared to his predecessor Tassos Papadopoulos, Christofias is clearly more willing to find a solution.

What’s more, for many years now, AKEL has kept contact with the leftist Republican Turkish Party (CTP) in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and president Dimitris Christofias and TRNC President Mehmet Ali Talat have a good dialogue.
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An International Conference on Small Craft Related Sciences and Engineering
16-18 November 2006 Bodrum-TÜRKİYE
The Even End Boat

Ata ATUN

SAMTAY Foundation & Near East University, Nicosia, T.R. North Cyprus

Abstract The design concept of one of the sailing boats of our voyaging ancestors has no fixed bow or stern [1]. This concept of at least three thousand and five hundred years old, may open up a new era in the form of sailing boats and fishing boats, propelled by wind. There are no forward and aft perpendiculars and the keel itself turns in to perpendiculars at both ends. The curvature of the keel is absolutely symmetric at amidship [1] and both sections are in duplicate hyperbolic shape, touching each other on the tip of x-axis. Transversely the cross section is symmetric at centerline and both halves are in identical semi elliptic shape, crown downwards. The mast is placed right in to the geometric center of the boat, longitudinally and transversely. The sail is in rectangular form. There is no fixed rudder and an oar shaped flat plank with a widening tip [2] is used as a rudder. Block coefficient, Waterplane area coefficient, Midship section coefficient, Longitudinal prismatic coefficient and Vertical prismatic coefficient of this boat reveals very interesting and interrelated ratios. [3] Devamını oku »

Ata Atun
SAMTAY Foundation
Famagusta, North Cyprus

1 Abstract :

The names and identities of the Antique Monuments, with in the oldtown of Famagusta, Cyprus, are determined according to the historical documents or to word of mouth. Most of the times, due to lack of official records or original documents, names originating from the history were adopted. With in the city walls of Oldtown, the name “Ayia Photou Church” is given to two side by side antique monuments, 20 m. apart, which both are now in ruins. These two ruins are situated at the north east sector of the town and are very close to the midpoint of Torrion del Diamante (Karpaz Tabya) and Torrion del Mozzo (Köpük Kulesi). According to my dense researches, the name of the antique monument on the south should be “Ayia Photou Church” and the name of antique monument on the north should be “St. Dominic Church”. In Famagusta, once a very rich town of Medieval, were two Bishoprics and seven churches of different [Christian] religious orders. One of them was the famous “St. Dominic Church” of Franciscan order. In the gravure of Stephan Gibellino, dated 1571 named “Citta di Famagosta”, the “St. Dominic Church” was clearly drawn with the belfry and back-garden encircled with high walls and marked with No.5 and footnoted as “St. Dominic Church”. It was located on the north east part of the town and close to the midpoint of Torrion del Diamante and Torrion del Mozzo. On the east part of the church, hippodrome “loro di trar al palio” was drawn, which till 1950’s this area served to the similar purpose. Unfortunately the “St. Dominic Church” suddenly disappeared from the papers, documents, registries, records, archives and even from memories after the conquest of the town by the Ottomans on 1571 although the Ottomans tried their best to preserve the antique monuments of Christian religion for almost 300 years and handed over the town to British on 1878 same as it was on 1571.
2 Location of the church in gravures and maps
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