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Article: Not yet (E)United: Cyprus and Accession. (Global Notebook).(European Union membership not expected to change internal divisions)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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The Republic of Cyprus, an island nation in the Mediterranean long split between Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot governmental factions, now faces the prospect of admission into the European Union. This possibility has renewed hopes of forging peace between the two factions on the island. In reality, however, Cyprus's EU accession is unlikely to bring an end to the stalemate.
Of the total population of Cyprus, estimated at over 750,000, approximately 78 percent is ethnically Greek and 18 percent ethnically Turkish. After a Greek-ordered military coup overthrew the Cypriot government in 1974, the Turkish army launched an offensive, seizing more than one-third of ...