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  • Feb 25, 09

    Deutschlandfunk, 2009.02.24.

    • Im griechischen Süden Zyperns wird über neue Gesichtsbücher beraten und damit über eine Generalrevision des nationalistischen Geschichtsbildes, das seit Generationen das Bild der Türken im Norden der Insel prägt.
    • Коста Каррас, член правления Центра, сказал, что появление книг стало возможным благодаря работе 60 специалистов из 11 стран юго-восточной Европы, которые занимались проектом в течение 10 лет.
    • A Council of Europe recommendation on the teaching of history was signed by its members, including Cyprus, in 2001. It seeks to avoid the misuse of history in democratic European countries. Some of the definitions of “misuse” being “fixation on one event to justify or conceal another”, “distortion of the past for the purposes of propaganda” and “an excessively nationalistic version of the past which creates the 'us' and 'them' dichotomy”.
    • Let’s take a look at the History of Cyprus, the textbook taught in the first year of state secondary schools: the brutal intercommunal fighting of 1963-64, after Makarios tore up the 1960 Constitution, is headlined as “The Turkish revolt”, which saw the Turkish Cypriots unilaterally pull out of government and force their population into enclaves, from which Greek Cypriots were barred.
    • 'The aim of the revision of school books is to enable our children to see Cyprus and the Cyprus problem in a global context. It is important to explain to the pupils that also elsewhere in the world people have experienced similar hard times like the Turkish Cypriots did, especially between the years 1963 and 1968,' says Canan Öztoprak, education and culture minister of northern Cyprus.
    • "Reviewing the negotiation process in Cyprus, the German magazine Der Spiegel remarked that despite the changes on chauvinistic statements made in school books in 2004, Greek Cypriot ultra-nationalists teachers and the Archbishop rejected a need to change school books." - Edurevue on 2009-03-23
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