Kemal Baykalli

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Sep

Kemal Baykalli

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Green Line Trade Expert
EU One Stop Shop for Green Line Trade and Businesses

Kemal Baykalli is the Green Line Trade Expert at the EU funded EU One Stop Shop for Green Line Trade and Businesses project. He has worked at the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce for many years supporting the business cooperation across the divide, before starting working as an independent expert supporting international projects focusing on economic development, communications and civil society.

Apart from the business cooperation, Kemal Baykalli is recognized as a civil society activist with a special focus on reconciliation on the island. He is one of the founders of UniteCyprusNow movement, and later, the Island Talks – www.islandtalks.fm, the first trilingual podcast platform of Cyprus. Together with his activist partner Andromachi Sophocleous, he co-produces “Nicosia Uncut”, an English language political podcast, widely popular among the international circles that follow Cyprus problem politics. He also co-produces a Turkish language podcast titled “Garip Zamanlar” (Strange Times) bringing a philosophical and satirical perspective to the world we live in from Nicosia, together with his two old-time friends who share similar, and occasionally, different passions in life.