Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou awarded 75 prizes to enhance Bi-Communal cooperation

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has awarded 75 Bi-Communal teams with cash

prizes of €10.000 each at the Award Ceremony (Stelios Bi-Communal Awards

2017) that took place at the Filoxenia Conference Centre in Nicosia last week

The aim of Sir Stelios’ philanthropic act for the last nine years, is to encourage

cooperation between the citizens of the two communities in Cyprus and to

establish lasting peace on the island. Since 2009, the total value of the awards

that were granted to Bi-Communal collaborations adds up to €2.750.000. This

year, the number of applications exceeded each precedent, as 850 Greek-

Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots collaborated and submitted their applications at

the Bi-Communal Awards.

During the Awards Ceremony, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou said: “The attitude of all

Cypriots on the island towards the other community is changing in a positive and

favourable direction. This comes despite the apparent inability of the politicians

to find common ground. Our objective as a charity is to continue to build positive

co-operation between the “real people” of Cyprus to ensure lasting peace on the

island. I hope the politicians will follow the “real people” in due course.”

This year’s ceremony has managed to unite more people from the two

communities, as before awarding the 150 winners, all 850 applicants participated

at a compelling Conference that took place at the Filoxenia Conference Centre,

along with a panel of renowned journalists from both communities and

international Mass Media. The discussion was focused mainly on the Bi-

Communal relationships on the island, while many gave their opinions on how a

solution could work between the two communities.

Official list of the 76 winning teams , 152 people who will receive total grants of €760,000

approved by Stelios 20 October 2017 in Nicosia.

The winners are listed by category (according to their own self declaration in the application).

The number before the names is the serial number in which the application was received

the serial number is for internal reference purposes only

19 winning teams in the category of ARTS

3. Natalie Neophytou – Nihat Agdag (Chamber orchestra)

70. Anna Marangou – Zekai Altan (Art – Culture)

104. Kostas Limpouris –Niyazi Kizilyurek Translation in Turkish of the book ‘Epivates Fortigon’)

242. Maro Kyprianou – Mehmet Emin Eminoglu (“Dance for Peace” Dancing Group)

241. Maria Siakalli – Tamer Oncul (Poets and members of the Writers Association)

291. Marios Antoniou – Mine Atli (Children’s Books Tell Stories of Peace)

4. Constantin Papageorgio- Gurhan Guray (String Quartet – musicians)

34. Louiza Kaimaki – Sezgi Yialin (Children book in 3 languages)

74. Marios Takoushis – Cahit Kutrafali (Jazz band musicians)

159. Andreas Chrysanthou – Arif Albayrak (Poetry book in both languages)

189. Ellada Evangelou – Esra Bardak (Gathering artists to perform)

196. Panayiota Charalambous (FFTH4) – Fulya Onay Food from the heart charity program

222. Stephanie Mylona – Gizem Oztinen (Photography buffer zone)

250. Hambis Tsangaris – Ruzen Atakan (Art exhibitions and workshops)

308. Girogos Galinis – Ali Nebih (Folkore dance festival)

314. Petros Iosifidis – Serhat Selisik (Sun baked adobe brick making)

317. Andri Hadjiandreou – Serkan Ozcezarli (Collaboration under cultural Intelligence Center)

323. Charalambia Theophanous – Hayriye Ruzgar (Buffer Fringe performing arts festival)

368. Pambos Georgiou – Ergin Kemal Birinci (Contractors/architects collaboration)

14 winning teams in the category of Business

25. Elena Christou – Kadir Yorgancioglu (Granite / marble traders)

90. Marilena Evangelou –Cenk Mutluyakali (Chief editors in Politis and Yeniduzen newspapers)

265. Antonis Lefconiciatis – Ozfer Ozatay (Fish trading / marketing)

27. Ellena Karamallaki –Ece Sahir (Fashion designers)

18. Konstantinos Georgiou – Umut Ersoy (Organic farming)

132. Leonidas Paschalides – Kemal Baykalli (GC & TC Chambers of Commerce activities)

237. Christakis Stylianou – Kenan Hurdeniz (Fish merchants)

247. Christodoulos Theocharides – Ugur Akiner (Coffee vending machines)

251. Panayiotis Theodorou –Hakan Ruslu (iCheers drinks application)

277. Miltos Nicolaou – Salih Zeki (Printing business)

287. Stelios Michael –Gulay Sahmaran (Care service company for elders etc.)

297. Tonia Georgiou – Benan Yorgancioglu (Hand made soy candle wax trading)

299. Eleni Roussounidou – Yonca Senyigit (Internet www.mandiratimes.com)

377. Magda Today, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has awarded 75 Bi-Communal teams with cash

prizes of €10.000 each at the Award Ceremony (Stelios Bi-Communal Awards

2017) that took place at the Filoxenia Conference Centre in Nicosia.