The Cultural Reconstruction of Political Reality: Greek and Turkish Cyprus Since 1974

King, Russell; Ladbury, Sarah

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“…However, geographical and ethnic separation has created two tourism markets. From this perspective, the cultural reconstruction of political reality of Greek and Turkish Cyprus was studied by King and Ladbury (1982). They acknowledged the common cultural symbols of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities in order to highlight the potential gains of cooperation against the background of contrasting views of divided political reality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They acknowledged the common cultural symbols of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities in order to highlight the potential gains of cooperation against the background of contrasting views of divided political reality. Taking this political reality into consideration, King and Ladbury (1982) prepared a survey deliberately to avoid the sensitive and divisive issues to both Turkish and Greek Cypriots.…”

Section: Methodology and Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cross-Border Trade Liberalization: The Case of Lokmaci/Ledra Gate in Divided Nicosia, Cyprus

Yorucu

Mehmet

Alpar

et al. 2010

European Planning Studies

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In the divided Walled City of Nicosia, there are two separate markets: one in the Greek Cypriot South and one in the Turkish Cypriot North. The division is the result of the unresolved Cyprus Problem. However, UN-sponsored negotiations are gradually liberalizing trade as well as movement of people across the border. On 3 April 2008, the Ledra Street/Lokmaci Gate was opened, allowing people, tourists and shoppers to cross to the other side. This event was further stimulated by action on the part of various aid agencies, principally the European Union, United States Agency for International Development and United Nations Development Program, who had invested heavily in revitalization projects to restore historic and heritage sites in the area. These two complementary effects (i.e. revitalization projects and opening the Gate) have generated significant trade creation in the business district near the Gate. It is the overall aim of this paper to quantify the "trade creation effect". The paper reports the results of a special survey of primary shop owners in the neighbourhood of the Gate in the northern part of the capital. The study finds empirical evidence of substantial trade creation, especially for Turkish Cypriots. However, this optimistic finding is clouded by the on-going bitterness of the last divided European capital surrounded by barbwires and minefields of the UN buffer zone that prevent maximum economic prosperity of a potential political settlement.

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Section: Methodology and Surveymentioning

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Section: Methodology and Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-Border Trade Liberalization: The Case of Lokmaci/Ledra Gate in Divided Nicosia, Cyprus

Yorucu

Mehmet

Alpar

et al. 2010

European Planning Studies

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“…From this perspective, the cultural reconstructions of political reality of Greek and Turkish Cyprus were studied by Russell King and Sarah Ladbury. 16 They acknowledged the common cultural symbols of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities in order to highlight the potential gains of cooperation against the background of contrasting views of divided political reality. Taking this political reality into consideration, King and Ladbury prepared a survey questionnaire deliberately to avoid the sensitive and divisive issues to both Turkish and Greek Cypriots.…”

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Efficiency Gains in Tourism in Cyprus: Myth or Reality?

Mehmet

Yorucu

2010

Turkish Studies

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A BSTRACT In divided Cyprus, there are two separate tourism markets, one in the Greek Cypriot South and one in the Turkish Cypriot North. This is a costly reality of the Cyprus problem. The purpose of this paper is to determine the potential "peace dividend", called efficiency gains, generated by a possible settlement of this problem as a result of an agreement between the two major communities on the island. Based on a survey of primary stakeholders in both parts of the island, the study finds persuasive empirical evidence of significant efficiency gains. However, this optimistic finding is limited by the politics of division which appear to dominate economic rationalism.

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“…The large-scale population displacements in Cyprus (in 1963 and1974) and Israel-WBG (in 1948-49 and1967) were not even partly caused by water stresses. It is possible that water shortages have been a contributory factor in internal migration, including rural-urban migration, in the two case areas, although as noted above such internal migration has been quite limited.…”

Section: Water Confl Ict and Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The RoC considers 208 000 people, or 23% of its population, to be internally displaced (IDMC, 2010), while there are estimated to be 65 000 internally displaced Turkish Cypriots from 1974 (King and Ladbury, 1982). Both the Northern Cyprus administration and the UNHCR consider Cyprus' internally displaced people settled, however.…”

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Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Migration: A Comparative Analysis and Reappraisal

Selby

Hoffmann

2012

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Abstract. How should we characterise the relations between environmental scarcity, confl ict, and migration? Most academic and policy analyses conclude that scarcities of environmental resources can have signifi cant impacts upon confl ict and migration, and claim or imply that within the context of accelerating global environmental changes these impacts are likely to become more signifi cant still. Many analyses admittedly recognise that these impacts are often indirect rather than direct and that there exist multiple 'drivers' of confl ict and migration, of which environmental stresses are but one. We argue that even these qualifi cations do not go far enough, however: they still overstate the current and likely future signifi cance of environmental changes and stresses in contributing to confl ict and migration and underemphasise a far more important causal pathway-from confl ict and migration to environmental vulnerabilities. These arguments are advanced via a comparative analysis of water-migration-confl ict linkages in Cyprus and Israel and the West Bank and Gaza.

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The Cultural Reconstruction of Political Reality: Greek and Turkish Cyprus Since 1974

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Cross-Border Trade Liberalization: The Case of Lokmaci/Ledra Gate in Divided Nicosia, Cyprus

Cross-Border Trade Liberalization: The Case of Lokmaci/Ledra Gate in Divided Nicosia, Cyprus

Efficiency Gains in Tourism in Cyprus: Myth or Reality?

Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Migration: A Comparative Analysis and Reappraisal

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