"Will the Euro bring new hope of reunification to Cyprus?
Anyone who has been reading this blog for over a year may remember my slightly surreal visit to Cyprus in the winter of 2006. N7406391_30992865_7071
During that visit (which was part of a semester-long European studies intensive program), I went to the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Cyprus (i.e. Greek Cyprus), where a young firebrand spokesperson informed my study enclave that any reunification agreement must foresee the deportation of all Turkish settlers who arrived after the 1974 partition of the island following a military incursion by Turkey and coup plot by Greece. I actually laughed out loud at this (as I am wont to do in such situations) --because forcing tens of thousands of people back to Turkey after three decades would not only be impossible and cruel, but also illegal-- and the ministry spokesperson was not pleased. His views were pretty radical, and I don't think representative of most Greek Cypriots."
More:Interdependent Blog: Will the Euro bring new hope of reunification to Cyprus?
