Progressive Party of Working People
The Progressive Party of Working People is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Cyprus.
Foreign Minister of Greece Stavros Lambrinidis and President of Cyprus Demetris Christofias during his tenure in New York City in October 2011
Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Dimas (to the right) and leader of AKEL Andros Kyprianou
AKEL headquarters in Nicosia, Cyprus
AKEL youth conference in 1984 in Nicosia
The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, Cyprus dispute, or Cyprus question, is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot community which runs the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot community in the north of the island, where troops of the Republic of Turkey are deployed. This dispute is an example of a protracted social conflict. The Cyprus dispute's causes stem from ethnic Greek nationalist ideology, Greek-Cypriot sentiment, the Megali Idea and Enosis, and some of the ethnic Turkish peoples' desire for the partition of the island of Cyprus through Taksim as a means of protection of their people by what they considered to be the threat of Greek-Cypriots.
A Greek Cypriot demonstration in the 1930s in favour of Enosis (union) with Greece
Turkish rally in Nicosia in January 1958
"TAKSİM" (division) graffiti on a wall in Nicosia in the late 1950s
The "Green Line" in Nicosia, Cyprus.
