Acknowledgements
I hardly know where or how to begin. What follows therefore is a long, somewhat jumbled, list of people who have at one stage or another helped in my work on Famagusta. I thank each and every one of them and sincerely hope I have not left anyone out.
Dan Frodsham, Werner Schmid, Serdar Atai, Johann Pillai, Anber Onar, Mehmet Erginel, Sevgi Altay Erginel, Ege Uluca Tümer, Tolga Tümer, Uğur Ulaş Dağli, Okan Dağli, Hasan Tekel, Elif Ünsal Karaca, Rifat Yalinç, Nafia Akdeniz, Rıza Tuncel, İsmet Ezel, Erkut Şahali, Oktay Kayalp, Alexis Galanos, Süleyman Uluçay, H.E. Ingemar Lindahl, Emin Çizenel, İlker Nevzat, Rand Eppich, Dimitris Pierides, Costa Carras, Michael Møller, Alexander Downer, Michael Petzet, Marko Kiessel, Asu Tosan, Lâtife Summerer, Halil Güven, Shane McDonald, Rima Outram, Nicholas Coureas, Allan Langdale, Tamás Kiss, Andrekos Varnava, Michael Anderson, Gohar Grigoryan, Antonio Musarra, Alessandro Chechi, Sharon Little, Nicholas Stanley-Price, Christopher Schabel, Catherine Otten (Froux), Ruth Keshishian, Benjamin Arbel, Mike Carr, Hacer Başarir, Marion Stuart, Anne Canalp, David Jacoby, Carlos Jaramillo, Hülya Yüceer, Mete Hatay, Rebecca Bryant, Jan Asmussen, Jim Kusch, Simon Bahçeli, Hüseyin Küçüksu, Dragoş Cosmescu, Müge Şevketoğlu, Luca Zavagno, Matthew Harpster, Uwe Müller, Lucie Bonato, Marios Hadjianastasis, Michel Balard, Michele Bacci, Yuan Yi, Ender Jiang Shutao, Philippe Trélat, Pierre-Vincent Claverie, Colin Sterling, Danny Goldman, Philippe Roux de Lusignan, Maria Grazia Siliato, Thomas Kaffenberger, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Sven Norris, Ünver Rüstem, Rebecca Brown, Arthur di Furia and President Wallace at SCAD, Tassos Papacostas, Vera Costantini, Will Spates, Zehra Çağnan, Özlem Çaykent, Andrea Giordano, Rachele Bernardello, Dickran Kouymjian, Francisco Fernandes, Duncan Rowland, Andrés Burgos Braga, Arne Franke, Peter Edbury, Denys Pringle, George Ballard, Kent Severson, Nicola Coldstream, Muzaffer Ekingen, Paulo Lourenço, Luís Ramos, Robert Silman, Thierry Soulard, Stephen Kemp, Ulrike Ritzerfeld, Patricia Fortini Brown, Bora and Banu Sayin, Ágnes Sebestyén, Julie Heather Liew, Wu Jiamian Jamin, Chan Min Hui Amber, Joan Chong, Lee Ke Ying Sheryl, Lim Yan Kai Darryl, Eroulla Demetriou, José y Mas, Rocco Mazzeo, Andrea Nanetti, Tomasz Borowski, Ketty Kanevesky, Catherine Williams, Anna Kosters, Wilbert “Skip” Norman, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Ahmet Usta, Paul Kohl, Maria Paschali, Randall Mason, Caroline Bruzelius, Lisa Ackerman, John Stubbs, Vibeke Sørensen, Lam Gi Ching Faith, Melissa Marciano, and Marcella Mulder. Last but not least, I want to thank my family in Northern Ireland and North Carolina, and in particular Gül İnanç, Ara İnanç Walsh, and Erdal Barkay.
I would like to thank the readers whose advise I valued. The decision to leave unchanged the interview format in chapters 4 and 5 was taken after much consideration. Importantly, I would like to acknowledge the Singapore Ministry of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Gazimağusa Belediyesi and World Monuments Fund, for funding the research that led to this book.