Talking time
A glimmer of hope, but no more than that
Jun 13th 2015 | NICOSIA | From the print edition
LATELY an unfamiliar emotion has washed over Cyprus: hope. The economy is starting to crawl back after a euro-zone bail-out in 2013. But the big news was the surprise election, in April, of Mustafa Akinci, a centre-left moderate, as president of the unrecognised Turkish-Cypriot north. This has kindled new optimism over ending the island’s divide.
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