AKEL / Communist Party of Cyprus

The book examines the political situation on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus and the part that AKEL, the Cyprus communist party, is playing in the ongoing conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The Progressive Party of Working People (Greek: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ (¿¿¿¿), Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú (AKEL); Turkish: Emekçi Halk¿n ¿lerici Partisi) is a Marxist¿Leninist, communist political party in Cyprus. AKEL is one of the two major parties in Cyprus, and it supports an independent, demilitarized, and non-aligned Cyprus, and a federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem. It places particular emphasis on a rapprochement with the Turkish Cypriots. It supported entry into the European Union with certain reservations.