ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the period between the mid-1990 and the end of 2000, and explores the processes through which the Left, both in Greece and Turkey, lost its pioneering role as the promoter of 'Greek-Turkish friendship'. In Turkey, the 1990 were a decade of significant political turmoil, marked by the instability of constantly changing governmental coalitions. Jacques Derrida claims that the difference between the ghost and the 'spectre' is differance. In April 2004, prospects for the reunification of Cyprus appeared strongly positive for the first time in thirty years. After decades of failed efforts, a UN-brokered reunification plan, widely known as the 'Annan Plan', which proposed a bi-communal federal solution for the Cypriot state, was put to referendum among the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities. The most striking example is the recent vehement criticism against Thalia Dragona the moment she was appointed as the Education Ministry's special secretary for education by the PASOK government in 2010.
