HHF Presents
The Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) is committed to supporting Hellenic education, culture and heritage initiatives across Canada. Its award-winning History Committee creates public history projects for a diaspora audience. This podcasting channel “HHF Presents” seeks to inform and narrate stories from our Greek past.
HHF Presents
Cyprus: An Island Divided. Episode Two - Nation Building
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Hellenic Heritage Foundation
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Season 5
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Episode 2
The Republic of Cyprus gained its independence from Great Britain in 1960. This episode looks at the road to nationhood and how coexistence between the ethnic Greek and ethnic Turkish populations was troubled from the start. With guests Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Professor Erol Kaymak, Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.