Humanities in a "postmodernist" Cyprus (1).
Abstract This paper explores the role of the humanities in Northern Cyprus. The enquiry takes as its starting point the crisis in the humanities of the 1920s--1940s and the subsequent transformation of the humanities in the 1970s under the rubric of postmodernism. While the way the humanities...

Aircraft News - Africa / Middle East.
Aug 27, 2007 Turkish Court Charges Plane Hijackers. A Turkish court has charged two men with hijacking after they sought to seize control of a plane heading for Istanbul from northern Cyprus at the weekend, state-run Anatolian news agency said on Thursday. Aug 23, 2007 ...

Lakecrest plans to check in with $100 mn.
Byline: Vivek Sinha NEW DELHI: Cyprus-based investment fund Lakecrest is planning to pump in $100 million into hospitality and tourism sectors in India. The funds would be invested to capitalise a recently-formed Indian company, which Lakecrest is in the process of acquiring. Earlier this year, Lakecrest also...

Airline News - Europe.
Aug 27, 2007 Turkish Aircraft Hijacked, Passengers Freed One of two men who hijacked a plane heading for Istanbul from northern Cyprus was trained in camps run by al Qaeda militants and planned to flee to Afghanistan, Turkish media reports said on Monday. Aug 20, 2007 ...

FIIs' tryst with tax waiver gets done?
Byline: Hema Ramakrishnan PUNE: Last week, an accounting firm forewarned its FII clients in Cyprus about the chances of losing capital gains tax exemption on the sale of Indian equities in future. The ground: India is in the advanced stages of renegotiating the double taxation...

Company Watch - Atlas Jet.
Aug 27, 2007 A Turkish court has charged two men with hijacking after they sought to seize control of a plane heading for Istanbul from northern Cyprus at the weekend, state-run Anatolian news agency said on Thursday. The two hijackers surrendered and released their hostages after forcing...

New code set to help tax hounds keep at bay.
Byline: Deepshikha Sikarwar NEW DELHI: Companies moving in through the Mauritius/Cyprus route to take advantage of concessional tax rates (under the double taxation avoidance agreement or DTAA) may soon run into a wall. The direct tax code, which is being drafted, plans to prevent the misuse of...

Kibris'ta kadin/toplumsal cinsiyet calismalari ve kadin hareketi uzerine bir degerlendirme.
Abstract This article deals with women's movements and studies in Cyprus, focusing on the latest developments in these fields. In Cyprus women's movements, academic women study groups, centres and initiatives have adopted the views of social gender that has been put forward by European Union and United...

A major growth market for years to come? After the sound of fury of Turkey's European Union woes last year, the partial suspension of the country's membership talks has in fact caused little upset to its financial markets and economic performance.
THIS SMOOTH RUNNING shows some underlying strengths--as well as some good preparations by the country's investors. However, Turkey is by no means out of the woods, with a year of political uncertainty ahead as both presidential and parliamentary elections loom. As 2006 came to an end, newspapers...

A little bit of history and a lot of opinion: biased authenticity in Belfast and Nicosia.
Abstract Tourism has become a significant feature of contemporary capitalist society and the phrase "ethnic tourism" has emerged to account for the increasing ways in which individuals seek to escape the homogenisation of cultures by seeking out new and different "others" within globalisation. In conflict societies, tourism...