Analysts at a panel at the British Institute in Ankara said talks trying to reunify the long-divided island of Cyprus should consider whether a referendum is needed and that there’s a need as well to look at the victims over the decades.
Cyprus was split by an unlawful 1974 Turkish invasion which led to Turkey seizing and keeping the northern third.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci are resuming negotiations which had collapsed until the Cypriot Parliament diluted a measure approving an annual commemoration of a 1950 referendum seeking Enosis, or unity with Greece.
The panel was on The Cyprus Peace Talks: Prospects & Challenges in a Post-Referendum Period. Esra Çuhadar from Bilkent University, stated that the politicians should analyze whether Cyprus would need another referendum since the 2004 referendum failed after Turkish-Cypriots approved the Annan Plan but Cypriots didn’t.
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