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: Ανορθωτικό Κόμμα Εργαζόμενου Λαού (ΑΚΕΛ) Anorthotikó Kómma Ergazómenou Laoú (AKEL); Turkish: Emekçi Halkın İlerici 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.