Those in favour of a federal solution urge the Greek Cypriot leader to immediately find ways to move forward, otherwise the momentum could be lost,\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\nResolving a decades-long conflict with its neighbor Turkey, is seen as beneficial in Greece, too. Opening new energy corridors in the Eastern Mediterranean and upgrading its role as a transit centre linking Asia to Europe, thought to be a positive development for Greece, still reeling from its economic and refugee crisis.<\/p>\n
For Turkey, benefit and loss calculations are not so straightforward.<\/p>\n
For a start, policy decisions are shaped by a government which is moving away from Europe. This is mainly due to Turkey\u2019s democratic deficiency but it is partly because of the EU\u2019s failure to reach a common stance on Turkey, in which Cyprus government has been playing a significant role.<\/p>\n
Inside Turkey, among every political shade, left and right, there is a strong nationalist sentiment against any kind of compromise that may involve loss of influence in Cyprus. With some exceptions, the rest is totally indifferent to what happens to Cyprus.<\/p>\n
Greek Cypriot politicians that have long invested their hopes in an Islamist party determined to break the traditional hold of the military in Turkey, still, naively, keep thinking that the AKP government would be more \u201cconstructive\u201d in Cyprus because it needs a foreign policy success.<\/p>\n
They will be disillusioned, again.<\/p>\n
Knowing full well most of its supporters would not see a compromise in Cyprus as a success, the AKP government would only genuinely agree to a permanent solution if they see a short term domestic gain as well as a major geopolitical advantage.<\/p>\n
A lasting settlement in Cyprus, the kind both Turkish and Greek Cypriots have been dreaming of for years, bringing them sustainable peace, security and prosperity, requires a lot more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the negotiations to end the decades-old division of Cyprus broke down on the early hours of Tuesday, thousands of Greek and Turkish Cypriots who had attended the biggest peace demonstration on the Green Line the night before, were still in party mood. Despite the UN praising the significant progress achieved so far, the news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28827,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28824\/revisions\/28827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firdevstalkturkey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}