Erdogan’s mosque-building spree helps drive Cyprus back together

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22

Erdogan’s mosque-building spree helps drive Cyprus back together

Thanasis Gavos Tue, 22 Nov 2016; 12:19

On the dusty outskirts of northern Nicosia, Europe’s last divided capital, a huge and controversial Turkish-funded mosque is nearing completion. The Hala Sultan mosque, the biggest in northern Cyprus, will accommodate 3,000 worshippers.

Similar new mosques elsewhere in the Turkish-held north of the island attract only a handful of Turkish Cypriots and the mosques are rarely filled.

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25 25/02/2019x Mani – Painting the Southern Peloponnese: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor	26 26/02/2019x Mani – Painting the Southern Peloponnese: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor	27 27/02/2019x Mani – Painting the Southern Peloponnese: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor 20:00 Rebetiki Serenata at Balabam	28 28/02/2019x Mani – Painting the Southern Peloponnese: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor 19:00 Christina Moutsou, ‘Layers’ – book launch	1 01/03/2019x Mani – Painting the Southern Peloponnese: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor 18:30 Brexit and your rights: Greek Community in the UK 20:30 ROCKnROLL Athens is coming to Jaks Kings Road (Zefi Bar)	2 02/03/2019x Mani – Painting the Southern Peloponnese: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor	3 03/03/2019x Mani – Painting the Southern Peloponnese: In the Footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor
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18 18/03/2019x 20:00 Marina Satti & Fonέs live in London	19	20	21 21/03/2019x 19:00 Rethinking language education in the UK’s Greek Cypriot diaspora	22	23 23/03/2019x Once And Future Europe	24 24/03/2019x Once And Future Europe 19:30 Aristotelis Rigas & Stelios Anatolitis – ‘Brain Drain’
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