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

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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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29	30 30/10/2018x 19:30 Christodoulos at 75	31	1 01/11/2018x Beautiful Moments of LIFE	2 02/11/2018x 19:00 Papanikolaou Prize	3 03/11/2018x 13:30 Greek Singing Workshop for Children (Kingston) 23:00 Garbi, Holidis, Menidiatis LIVE – Hilton Park Lane (in Greek)	4 04/11/2018x 18:00 Greek Sundays present: Back to school party! (in Greek) 19:00 Stelios Salvador and ‘Mora Sti Fotia’
5 05/11/2018x 19:00 ”Youkali” The Pursuit of Happiness	6	7	8 08/11/2018x 19:00 Rebetiko Live at Holy Pitta Yeeros House (in Greek)	9 09/11/2018x Classical music event at The Holy Cross and St Michael’s church 19:30 Every Brilliant Thing 23:30 Fridays (Ladies Free) & Saturdays at Morton’s Mayfair (in Greek)	10 10/11/2018x 19:30 Every Brilliant Thing 23:30 Fridays (Ladies Free) & Saturdays at Morton’s Mayfair (in Greek) 18:30 LoOk at me	11 11/11/2018x 19:30 Every Brilliant Thing 19:30 Angelo Tsarouchas – ‘Appetite for Discussion’ 11:00 Greek book club meeting (in Greek) 16:00 Troy 18:00 Cretan Brioche unplugged
12 12/11/2018x 19:00 Princess Anne of Cyprus – The Cypriot Duchess of Savoy 19:00 Actors of Dionysus performance lecture event – Oxford 20:30 LoOk at me	13 13/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 19:00 Troy	14 14/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	15 15/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 18:30 Demonstration for a Free, United Cyprus 18:30 London: Greeks into Startups meetup 19:00 Climate: Change, Biodiversity and the Need for Action in Today’s Hellenic World 20:45 Metapraxis VI: Sisyphus Distressing @Voila!Europe 20:45 Troy	16 16/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 23:30 Fridays (Ladies Free) & Saturdays at Morton’s Mayfair (in Greek) 18:00 The 2018 Hippocratic Oration 19:00 Greek Night: Peran	17 17/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 23:30 Fridays (Ladies Free) & Saturdays at Morton’s Mayfair (in Greek)	18 18/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 15:00 Greek Cypriot London: From Camden to Enfield on the 29 bus 17:00 Angelica Nikli Solomou – I Diafani (The Transparent) [in Greek]
19 19/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 18:30 Lessons learned from Greek Crisis: Reflections from G.Papandreou	20 20/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	21 21/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	22 22/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	23 23/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 23:30 Fridays (Ladies Free) & Saturdays at Morton’s Mayfair (in Greek) 20:00 Greek Vintage Night at Jaks Mayfair	24 24/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair 23:30 Fridays (Ladies Free) & Saturdays at Morton’s Mayfair (in Greek) 21:00 Kourelou at Balabam	25 25/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair
26 26/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	27 27/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	28 28/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	29 29/11/2018x Lesvos – Between Hope and Despair	30 30/11/2018x 23:30 Fridays (Ladies Free) & Saturdays at Morton’s Mayfair (in Greek) 22:00 UK EPIC Party – biggest party with the best of 80s, 90s, 00s	1 01/12/2018x 11:15 C.P. Cavafy: The Poetics of History and the Music of Poetry (2nd day)	2