President Christodoulidis hopes for a revival of the “Euroring” research program, on the occasion of the new Presidency of the Council of the European Union by the Republic of Cyprus in the first half of 2026, who on Thursday evening delivered a greeting at the presentation of George George's book “Prisoners and missing persons of the Greek Revolution”.
Mr. Georgis, as the President said, as a professor at the University of Cyprus, undertook the “Euroring” research project, within the framework of which six large volumes were published on the political, historical and cultural relations of Cyprus with Spain, Denmark, Hungary, Poland and Ireland, while a special volume published during the first Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU includes chapters on Cyprus' relations with all the Member States of the European Union.
President Christodoulidis said that Mr. Georgis was a pioneering visionary in the development of cultural diplomacy, which is among the priorities of the Deputy Minister of Culture and which the Government wants to promote even more. He was, he added, the proponent for the establishment of the House of Cyprus in Athens, of which he was director for many years and promoted it to one of the most important cultural centers of the Greek capital.
He also mentioned that his books on the Union Referendums and the 1821 fighter Nikolaos Theseas were recently released in Cyprus, while his new book is the product of many years of research, studies and highlights one of the most shocking and tragic aspects of the Greek Revolution, the drama of the prisoners and missing persons.
“I am sure that what prompted Mr. Georgis to deal with this dimension is the fact that this year marks 50 years since the Turkish invasion and continued occupation and certainly the foundations that emerged from this tragic experience led him and in the study and we have this book that we are presenting tonight, he said.
Greetings at the event were addressed, among others, by the Ambassador of Greece in Cyprus Ioannis Papameletiou and the Mayor of Strovolos Andreas Papacharalambous.
The Ambassador of Greece in Cyprus, after thanking the author for the invitation to address a greeting, said that “this new, valuable opinion of Mr. George George is a very important contribution to the historical research on the Greek revolution”.
< p>“This is a thorough work, the product of a thorough study of the historical records surrounding the issue of prisoners and missing persons of the revolutionary period,” he said and added that “with rich documentation, Mr. Georgis' research geographically covers most areas of revolutionary Greece and it describes in a rich and precise language all the aspects of this most tragic humanitarian issue, arising from the conflicts”.
The Mayor of Strovolos thanked the author for the fact that the presentation of his book is taking place in the Municipality Strovolos, adding that “the presence of the book could not be anywhere else, than in the birthplace of Archbishop Kyprianos, the son of our community, who with his sacrifice 200 years ago secured Hellenism and our faith in this place” .
In his speech, the author of the book, Georgios Georgis, thanked both the President of the Republic for his greeting at the event “for what he said about me and for his friendship” and the rest of the attendees at the event.
Mr. George made a special reference to the presence of the Ambassador of Greece, saying that he “belongs to that generation that used to call the ambassador of Greece as the ambassador of the motherland”.
Also, Mr. George mentioned in his efforts to gather material for the subject of his book from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he located the file entitled “Greek prisoners of the Turks”, which began from 1927 and ended in 1864.
He reported that while initially he was only allowed to make photocopies of 10 pages a day, after the intervention of the Greek Cypriot Deputy Foreign Minister Giannos Kranidiotis he was given permission to make photocopies.
Mr. Georgis said that he photocopied about 10,000 pages of which he used only 1,000 for his book.
