Cyprus Reunification Talks Stall Over Turkish Demands To Maintain A Military presence On The Island

Irish Times: Cyprus talks halted over security impasse

Sharp divisions over Turkish insistence on continued military presence on island

Talks in Geneva to reunite Cyprus broke up overnight amid sharp divisions over new security arrangements as Turkey insisted on maintaining a military presence on the divided Mediterranean island.

Negotiators for Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities plan a fresh effort next week to break the logjam after the foreign ministers of Greece, Turkey and Britain stepped back from the process.

Cyprus has been split along ethnic lines since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third in response to an Athens-inspired coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. A UN buffer zone divides the breakaway Turkish-Cypriot state, recognised only by Ankara, from the Greek-Cypriot state, an EU member.

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