Cavusoglu tells UN envoy federation no longer possible
A federal solution to the Cyprus problem is no longer sustainable, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday after a meeting in Ankara with...
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Akinci warns of permanent partition in Guardian interview
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has warned that the island faces permanent partition and outlined his hope of reaching a deal under a federal framework....
Akel: secret Ozersay-Anastasiades meeting was not just a social event (Updated)
Opposition Akel on Wednesday called on President Nicos Anastasiades to explain his meeting with Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay behind the back of Turkish...
Overwhelming majority of Greek Cypriots not hopeful for solution
The majority of Greek Cypriots believe the Cyprus problem is no closer to being resolved now than it was last year although they would prefer...
Akinci: Turkish Cypriots the main victims of the status quo
The Turkish Cypriots are the only community working towards a solution to the Cyprus problem, the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said in his New...
Walking on the razor’s edge
Interview with Toumazos Tsielepis, former member of the Greek Cypriot negotiating team Toumazos Tsielepis was born, in 1956, in the occupied village of Prastio (in...
‘World looks on in silence as Cyprus moves towards partition’
Cyprus is moving towards partition while the world looks on in silence, civil society groups from the island said on Tuesday. In a joint call,...
Siber says time to break the taboo and talk partition
Former Turkish Cypriot ‘House Speaker’ Sibel Siber added her voice to a growing number of politicians on the Turkish side that say a two-state solution...
Partition it is, though they dare not speak its name
By Gavin Jones There is universal respect for the British sense of humour. Quite simply, it’s all in the words, timing and its mode of...
Concern over archbishop’s apparent support for partition
Archbishop Chrysostomos on Wednesday defended his apparent support for a two-state solution in Cyprus, a day after coming under attack for referring to the...
Our View: It is time partition entered public debate
IN AN interview he gave to Phileleftheros last Sunday, President Anastasiades was asked whether there was another path if the Cyprus problem could not be...
No to partition and no to enosis
Like many politicians of his generation Jack Straw, Britain’s former Labour foreign secretary, who recently wrote an article in the Independent newspaper in support of...
Labour MP says Straw was ‘ill informed’
Britain’s Labour MP Bambos Charalambous has described an article by former British foreign secretary Jack Straw calling for the island’s partition as “ill-informed” and not...
UK’s former foreign minister calls for Cyprus’ partition
A negotiated solution to the Cyprus problem through the creation of a bizonal, bicommunal federation is impossible due to Greek Cypriot intransigence and the only...
Seventy years after India, Cyprus is on the road to partition
British India was partitioned 70 years ago at the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947. In the process a million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims...
The fatal dangers of the status quo
By George Koumoullis THE IMPRESSION that the status quo – that is, partition – was supported by a large number of Greek Cypriots because of...
Why the majority want partition
IN HIS interview with Politis last Sunday, Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos said that some 1,500 houses owned by Turkish Cypriots had been given to Greek...
Concern over Republic a smokescreen for partition
By Loucas Charalambous NOW THAT the rejectionist parties have decided to join forces in order to prevent a possible settlement of the Cyprus problem,...
The Plan B we might need to consider
If present talks for a Cyprus solution fail, the inevitable answer might have to be a negotiated division of the island By Andreas Tryfon On...
Our View: ‘Preserving the Republic’ rules out any possibility of a settlement
FEARING that their defiant but hollow rhetoric is no longer taken very seriously the so-called parties of the centre brought a US-based Greek academic to...