Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Turkish Cypriot appetite for united island dwindles as hostility grows

"Turkish Cypriot appetite for united island dwindles as hostility grows

Separatist sentiments gain ground in north of Cyprus despite new round of reunification talks

Mustafa Iusufoglu was only a small child when Turkish troops overran his village a few miles outside Nicosia in the summer of 1974. But he remembers clearly the elation with which his father and the local Turkish Cypriot community greeted their arrival after years of often bloody, island-wide confrontation with the Greek Cypriot majority."

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