Cyprus remains a stumbling-block

Mavi Boncuk |

A special report on Turkey

Immovable object

Cyprus remains a stumbling-block

CYPRUS bedevils Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union.. The problem dates almost as far back as the leasing of the island to Britain after the 1878 Congress of Berlin. In 1960 Cyprus won its independence and became a federal state that, in theory, respected the rights of both Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots (respectively 80% and 20% of Cyprus’s 1m-odd people). But as early as 1964 the Turkish-Cypriots were driven into enclaves by the majority Greek-Cypriots.

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