SDDP Envisioning a Future Keryneia

SDDP Envisioning a Future Keryneia Report Title SDDP Report Triggering Question What are descriptors of an ideal image of a future Kyrenia? Dates 2007 (April 30 & May 2) Author(s) Rebecca Brubaker Elia Petridou Tonia Loizidou Editor(s) Yiannis Laouris Marios Michaelides Total Duration 6 hrs

Executive Summary

The Envisioning a Future Keryneia Co-Laboratory was organized.

Sponsor and partners

The co-Laboratory was sponsored and hosted at the Keryneia Municipality at the buffer zone by Ledra Palace.

List of all Ideas

The following ideas were collected in response to the Triggering Question "What are descriptors of an ideal image of a future Keryneia?"

1. Free City without troops
2. All properties owned by original owners
3. The human rights of Kyrenians to be completely respected in Kyrenia
4. All settlers to be removed
5. To be back in our original environment with our original neighbors
6. The future Kyrenia to come quickly
7. All Turkish troops out of Cyprus
8. Kyrenia in a United Cyprus in the United Europe as it was throughout the last 3500 years
9. Peaceful and safe City
10. Reforested
11. I want Kyrenia with its native people as they were before 1974 without settlers and turkish army
12. The historical centre to be architecturally restored as it was before 1974
13. All British and other foreigners not to gain ownership rights
14. A spiritual and cultural beacon in the Mediterranean
15. A unique beautiful romantic city
16. To be able to live in the house I was born in
17. Equal rights for all Kyrenians and Kyrenia itself in the context of the European Union

18 A City in which everybody will know eachother by their first name 19 A City full of orchards 20 A City with the majority as it was before 1974 21 The majority will be as before and will rule 22 The minority will have all its rights 23 A City were many European and international conferences will take place 24 all illegal constructions at least will be stoped 25 A City where all who fled for their lives will be remembered by name and photo 26 A District where all ecclesiastical, cultural and national monuments will be restored in their original glory 27 A City in which our children and grandchildren will enjoy life as we did before 1974 28 A district with the same schools as they existed before 1974 29 Kyrenia the attraction (koitida) of tourism of all Europe and elsewhere to become again 30 A safe place to raise a family 31 A place where you can see the sea 32 As beautiful as before with all its churches with all their antique icons in place as before 33 Many writers/researchers will record the drama of the Kyrenians as refugees going back to their town 34 Names of streets and places (toponyms) to be as they were before 35 All pre 1974 houses to bear the name and the photo of the people who lived there before 1974 36 Liberated Kyrenia 37 The color of the small beautiful town as it was before 38 Kyrenia the 2nd Riviera of the Mediterranean 39 To be able to leave you front door unlocked 40 A town that the cemetaries are not destroyed 41 The turkish flag will not be on Pentadaktylos 42 The writting on Pentadaktylos (proud to be called a turk) not to be there 43 Kyrenia will be the cultural capital of Europe 44 The villages around Kyrenia to have their original picturesque images 45 A Kyrenia with a Kyrenian Mayor, not from Limassol 46 The lemon blossom smell will dominate in the Spring time 47 A City where casinos/betting shops are not to be found 48 A Kyrenia with Turkey as a friendly neighbour 49 The boundaries (rothesia) of properties to be as they were before 1974 50 A picturesque harbour without disturbing symbols 51 The town to be developed by its authentic owners 52 A centre of peace with a United Nations headquarters 53 A place where all human rights will be respected 54 A multicultural and multireligious place 55 A museum with exhibits of the last 5000 years and names of people who gave their lives for world peace 56 The town and the villages to be restored in their original achitectural character 57 The reactivation of all government services, banks etc. 58 No more mosques or Islamic monuments to be constructed, preferably to be removed 59 kerynians and their descendents to be in charge for their own destiny 60 To be cleaned and tidy town as it was before 61 A city where a religious wedding takes place in Archangelos church with the couple walking down the stairs 62 A place with respect of each other individuality 63 To have schools and centers that teach traditional embroideries 64 a place to enjoy mountain and sea at the same time 65 Reactivation of all sports activities, associations and centres and cultural events(GSPraksandos, anthesteria) 66 Kerynia to be a paradise where all citizens (greek and turkish cypriots) will live in peace if there are no external interventions