AKEL / Communist Party of Cyprus

The book examines the political situation on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus and the part that AKEL, the Cyprus communist party, is playing in the ongoing conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The Progressive Party of Working People (Greek: ni th mimi Gamma zeta mi ni ( ), Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú (AKEL); Turkish: Emekçi Halkin Ilerici Partisi) is a Marxist-Leninist, communist political party in Cyprus. AKEL is one of the two major parties in Cyprus, and it supports an independent, demilitarized, and non-aligned Cyprus, and a federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem. It places particular emphasis on a rapprochement with the Turkish Cypriots. It supported entry into the European Union with certain reservations.

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Prof. Dr. Kemal Yildirim ist Autor von mehr als zweihundert Büchern und 500 Artikeln, die in Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht wurden Er ist auch Filmemacher mit mehr als zwanzig Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen Er arbeitet derzeit an östlicher Philosophie.