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À Chypre, indépendante depuis 1960, l’agressivité des mouvements nationalistes importés de Turquie et de Grèce a abouti à des affrontements interethniques, à la séparation des communautés grecque et turque, autrement dit orthodoxe et musulmane, et enfin à une tentative de coup d’État pro-grec suivie d’une intervention armée turque qui a accompli le partage (taksim) de l’île en 1974. À l’époque, environ un tiers des Chypriotes ont subi un ou plusieurs exodes forcés et le tissu social de l’île a été détruit. De 1995 à 2004, les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont écouté la population, surtout du côté turc, jusqu’alors négligée par la recherche. Les témoignages recueillis, parmi des « gens de peu », disent le malheur de la déchirure comme les craintes et les espérances de ceux qui tentent de reconstruire une mémoire commune. Cette étude illustre les dégâts du nationalisme, plaqué sur la religion et souvent artificiellement inculqué dans l’esprit de populations qui vivaient ensemble, parfois difficilement, mais sans se faire la guerre. À son échelle, le cas chypriote n’est guère différent du désastre yougoslave, vingt ans plus tard : le danger n’est pas dans l’Autre, mais dans les nationalismes qui jouent avec le feu.

Geography --- History --- International Relations --- Sociology & Anthropology --- Anthropology --- Chypre --- chypriotisme --- témoignages --- Turquie --- ONU --- Grèce --- église --- frontière --- Cyprus --- testimony --- testimonies --- Turkey --- Greece --- UN --- church --- border

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Cultural crossroads and focal point of passage, Cyprus has had a very important mediating function that the book illuminates in various aspects: from contaminations of a religious nature and the contiguity of mythical traditions (as in the case of Asarte-Aphodite) to multiple linguistic and cultural influences. Cyprus is located in a strategic position, historically presenting itself as a place of political and military confrontations. Cyprus, through the growing flow of merchants, contributed to the change of mentality which stopped looking at the sea as a source of danger and started to see in it a principle of openness and communication. A sea that divides, but also a sea that unites. This path is followed through epigraphic and material sources, from those dating back to the III millennium B.C. which mention the island as a stage for expeditions with military functions or as a supply of timber and metals, to those of the eighth century B.C. where Cyprus marks the north-western border of the 'officially existing world' in the East, and then up to to the Middle Ages, observed from the West with the registers of Genoese and Venetian notaries of the fourteenth century. Three continents compete for the island of Cyprus: in addition to Asia, also Africa with Egypt opposite, and Europe, as the extreme offshoot of Greece and the islands of the Aegean Sea.

Chypre --- Civilization, Aegean --- Diplomatics --- Documents --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Cartularies --- Historiography --- History --- Archives --- Manuscripts --- Paleography --- Aegean civilization --- Sources --- Cyprus --- Kıbrıs --- Kypros --- Zypern --- Qubruṣ --- Kipriaki Dhimokratia --- Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti --- Cipro --- Chipre --- Cypern --- Kipŭr --- Tsiprus --- Kypriakē Dēmokratia --- Republic of Cyprus --- Ciper --- Κύπρος --- Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία --- Kipr --- Кипр --- Ostrov Kipr --- Остров Кипр --- Cyprus (Turkish republic of northern Cyprus, 1983- ) --- Cyprus (Turkish federated state, 1975-1983) --- Foreign relations --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Antiquités --- Philosophie grecque --- Diffusion de la culture.