Episode - Island Talks

Sesta – Episode 3: On the universality of poetry with Nafia Akdeniz (5/3/2022)

Sesta-embracing the colours of culture! In this third episode of Sesta, Meltem Burak talks to the ethnographer and poet Dr Nafia Akdeniz. Nafia is currently working as a senior instructor at Eastern Mediterranean University, as a post-doctoral researcher with Professor Rebecca Bryant who is based in Utrecht University, and she is working on her poetry collection Yarım İnşaat (Under Construction) which will be published in Turkish in March 2022. Throughout the podcast, Nafia elaborates on the politics of poetry; rootlessness and home-seeking; displacement and emplacement, and nostalgia for future. She emphasises the universality of poetry, and the relationship between empathy and poetry,…

The Life Light – Επεισόδιο 15: Χριστιάνα Ξενοφώντος – Δεξιότητες ζωής και καριέρα (24/2/2022)

Η Χριστιάνα Ξενοφώντος, μια παθιασμένη υπερασπίστρια για τα δικαιώματα των νέων μας μιλά για τη σημασία της ανάπτυξης δεξιοτήτων ζωής στη πορεία μας. Η προσωπική ανάπτυξη και οι ισορροπίες αποτελούν αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι μιας πορείας με νόημα για τον εαυτό μας και την κοινωνία. Το podcast Life Light παράγεται και παρουσιάζεται από την Άννα Μιχαήλ.

Nicosia Uncut – Episode 35: RoC’s U-turn from sanctions to CBMs (17/2/2022)

Handover ceremony of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the newly-appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Ioannis Kasoulides, by the outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Nikos Christodoulides. (Photo by CNA)

Since the collapse of the talks in Crans Montana, Anastasiades government has dedicated all its foreign policy capital in isolating Turkey through various diplomatic tools. Apart from a number of regional agreements (which were highlighted with tantamount ceremonies), the Republic of Cyprus has used its EU membership to push, unsuccessfully, for European sanctions against Turkey. The Greek Cypriot mainstream media did not hesitate to portray such "glorious diplomatic victories" on their front pages, radio and TV stations were filled with strategic experts praising government's strategic steps in the international arena. It seems that all went down the drain after…

Decode Cyprus – Episode 2: Race for the presidential election starts early in the RoC (16/2/2022)

Esra Aygın and Lefteris Adilinis, two journalists from Cyprus "decode" Cyprus. In this episode of Decode Cyprus podcast, they discuss the latest in the presidential race in the Republic of Cyprus. DISY leader Averof Neofitou is facing a potential challenge from the former foreign minister Nicos Christodoulides while left-wing AKEL is taking its time before deciding on its candidate. DIKO leader Nicolas Papadopoulos and independent lawyers, Marios Eliades and Achilleas Dimitriades are the other contenders for the post.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 26: Bana lokasyon at, Uber dışarıda (15/2/2022)

Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan sosyal medya sayesinde dünya üzerindeki her tartışma ve polemiğe nasıl taraf olabileceğimizi, TikTok'un kitap versiyonu BookTok'u, ayakkabısını çıkarmayı reddeden Amerikalı'nın yediği linci, bu yıl ödül alma konusunda en iddialı filmleri, anti-kahramanları ve dünya üzerindeki mafyaların, yasa dışı örgütlenmelerin içinde bulundukları toplumlarla ilişkilerini konuştular. Bu bölümde tadımı yapılan Grant's Select Reserve

Buffering – Episode 13: The times, they are dark! (12/2/2022)

Yiorgos Kakouris and Esra Aygın, two Cypriot journalists living and working abroad bring the dispatches from the alternate Cypriot universe! In this episode they discussed the assassination of a Turkish Cypriot businessman who is alleged to have dark connections in and outside Cyprus. Also, they shed a light on the latest situation in the famous camp where many immigrants are held behind fences by the authorities.

Zor Meseleler – Bölüm 3: Falyalı cinayeti, Kıbrıs’ta buzdağının görünen kısmı (10/2/2022)

Uzun bir aradan sonra Zor Meseleler podcast yeni bölümle dinleyicileriyle buluşuyor. Zor Meseleler'in bu bölümünde Kıbrıslı gazeteciler Esra Aygın ve Aysu Basri Akter, Kıbrıs’ı sarsan Falyalı cinayetini konuştular. Falyalı’nın faaliyetleri, ilişkiler ağı, Akacan’ın vurulması, Kıbrıs’ın kuzeyindeki yapı ve güvensizlik ortamı Kıbrıslı iki gazetecinin gözünden Zor Meseleler'de.

The Life Light – Επεισόδιο 14: Julio Kompoloi: Ξεκινώντας από τον εαυτό σου (8/2/2022)

Μέσα από τη δική του πορεία ο Julio εμπνέει την αλήθεια προς τον εαυτό μας και τον κόσμο. Συζήτηση που είχαμε βλέπουμε τη δική του οπτική για την αφύπνιση του εαυτού του και του κόσμου γύρο του μέσα από τη μουσική. Το podcast Life Light παράγεται και παρουσιάζεται από την Anna Michael.

Sesta – Episode 2: Review of Andreas Karayan’s Dark Tales (6/2/2022)

Sesta-embracing the colours of culture! In this second episode of Sesta podcast, Meltem Burak reviews Andreas Karayan`s award-winning book Dark Tales. Andreas Karayan is an author, artist and critique from Nicosia. Dark Tales is the second book of Karayan`s literary autobiographical pentalogy in English. Dark Tales is a bildungsroman elaborating on the harmonised artistic and sexual self-realisations of the author. It was translated to English in 2014 by Irene Noel-Baker, and won the National Prize for Literature in the same year. Dark Tales was published by Armida Publications which is a Nicosia-based publication house specialising in Eastern Mediterranean literature.

Buffering – Episode 12: Elections, elections and animal welfare (27/1/2022)

They are back! Buffering podcast of the two Cypriot journalists, Esra Aygın and Yiorgos Kakouris, continue to bring you dispatches from the alternate Cypriot universe. In this episode, they provide you all the insights of the elections in the north and the latest developments towards the upcoming Presidential elections in the Republic of Cyprus. And they prove to be an animal friendly podcast!