ABSTRACT
The communications, meetings and encounters of the Left in the late 1970s, while providing the discursive and affective conditions for mutual contact, had not led to specific, enduring pro-rapprochement projects. The image is a picture of the Turkish Cypriot trade unionist and member of the AKEL party Dervis Ali Kavazoglu and the Greek Cypriot trade unionist member of the PEO union Kostas Misiaoulis, shot dead by the nationalist TMT organisation on 11 April 1965 while travelling from Nikosia to Larnaka. The reproduction of the violent image of the assassinated Dervis Ali Kavazoglu and Misiaoulis on the first page of EAMLET's brochure, a publication that was devoted to aspirations for peace, bears some interesting connotations. The public support-seeking strategies of the Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) during the 1990s took advantage of the negative feelings and stereotypes of Greek public opinion against the 'Turkish vulgarity' that had been largely reactivated after the 1987 Greek-Turkish crisis in the Aegean Sea over oil reserves.
