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CYPRUS. TWO COUNTRIES ON ONE ISLAND? (Cypr. Dwa panstwa na jednej wyspie?)

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Kaplonska J.
Myśl Ekonomiczna i Prawna
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2009
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issue 3(26)
96-113
EN
The subject matter of the present article is the Cyprus issue, its complexity, a review of previous peace initiatives and solutions that could be implemented. The terms: 'Cyprus issue', 'Cyprus crisis', '- conflict', '- dispute', used interchangeably, are presently used to describe the conflict that has taken place between the Greek and Turkish parts of the island with the respective support provided to the parties by Greece and Turkey. The term is also connected with activeness of other states which are interested in the island because of their political and economic interests.The Cyprus crisis is undoubtedly one of the longest and most difficult problems in the modern international relations. This is so because it is composed of many different closely related aspects. It is commonly believed that the major ones are the ethnic composition and geo-strategic location of the island that, in practice, make the Greek-Turkish dispute a political, national, religious and territorial one. It is worth mentioning here that Cyprus is one of the last episodes of the fight between the Christians and the Muslims in the Mediterranean region and one of the last tracks of the Turkish expansion in Europe. The internal determinants overlap the simultaneous international context, including attempts made by Greece and Turkey to use the Cyprus issue further than only in their foreign policy. All these things shape the unusually complex character of the crisis and makes it even more difficult to solve. The aim of the article is to prove the thesis that the settlement of the Cyprus issue is possible and its scenarios are well-known. However, the implementation of one of them is extremely difficult at present. To solve the problem, it is necessary to work out a compromise that would be obviously connected with numerous concessions made to the opposed party. But based on the observation of the policy adopted by the authorities of the two Cypriot communities it can be stated that the concepts of good will and a desire to finish the dispute are absent from it.
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