"Urgency and frustration grow in Ankara
By Delphine Strauss in Ankara
Published: November 8 2009 23:14 | Last updated: November 8 2009 23:14
A clutch of Turkey’s senior diplomats flew to Ankara last month for a weekend of talks behind the closed doors of the foreign ministry. The topic: Cyprus.
In the 35 years since Turkish troops occupied the north of the island, the deadlock has defied successive attempts at UN mediation and become the biggest obstacle to Turkey’s European Union membership bid – even though the Turkish community, and not the Greek one, voted for reunification in a 2004 referendum."
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