"Renovating the Armenians spiritual home
By Simon Bahceli
IT MUST have been around ten years ago that I first wandered into the Arabahmet neighbourhood of Nicosia. Yalcin, a Turkish Cypriot writer and friend of mine, had recently opened a bar and restaurant in the Writer’s Association’s building in Tanzimat Street. Trade was slow and Yalcin soon tired of cooking, so we began taking our own meat to throw on the grill, and our own booze as well, seeing as he would always have to send his assistant out to buy some when ‘customers’ arrived."
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