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.

The Triggering Question (TQ) was
Which are the disadvantages or obstacles of the current socio-political system that discourage youth participation?

In response to the TQ, the 25 participants came up with 65 Descriptors, which were categorized in 12 clusters. Following the voting process, 65 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.

Influence tree from the Characteristics SDDP of the Envisioning a Future in Keryneia workshop for TQ.

According to the participants of this workshop, appear to be the most influential were:

• Descriptor #2, All properties owned by original owners
  
• Descriptor #3, The human rights of Keryneians to be completely respected in Keryneia
  
• Descriptor #1, Free city without troops
  
• Descriptor #66, Keryneia to be a paradise where all citizens (greek and turkish cypriots) will live in peace of there are no externat interventions
  
• Descriptor #7, All Turkish troops out of Cyprus
  

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