DIVIDED ISLAND
The Cyprus Mail, with its expert writers and extensive archive material, marks the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion and coup with a revamped version of its special section Divided Island.
Divided Island provides a comprehensive background briefing on the steps leading up to the invasion and the tortuous efforts to reunify the island since 1974.
There are profiles of the main players in the current negotiations and of those involved in previous settlement attempts.
There are concise, factual guides to earlier peace plans, a useful chronology of events going back to 1955, maps, features and a selection of comment pieces.
You will also see photographs of Varosha before and after it became the world’s biggest ghost town plus a video of the Nicosia International Airport.
A timeline of events
1955 to April 2024
This is one of a series of articles from our new feature ‘Background briefing: The Divided Island‘. It is a comprehensive interactive information guide on the Cyprus problem.
A timeline of UN’s Cyprus diplomacy
Some 25 UN special envoys and six secretary-generals have been involved in efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem over a period of more than half a century.