Will Reconciliation Efforts in Cyprus Fail?

The Turkish residents of Northern Cyprus go to the polls to elect a new president on the 18 April 2010. The future of their internationally ostracised republic, the most isolated in Europe, is at stake. A solution to the three-decade division between Greek southern Cyprus and the Turkish northern part of the island is nowhere in sight.

European Commission: Press Release: IP/10/430: Meeting of the Cyprus Steering Group http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/430&format=PDF&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

ESO: Background information: Turkish Cypriot leader vows to continue talks http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkish-cypriot-leader-vows-to-continue-talks/

UN: UN Good Offices Mission: Helping to reunify Cyprus http://www.uncyprustalks.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=2466

Wikipedia: Elections in Northern Cyprus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Northern_Cyprus

Wikipedia: Northern Cyprus presidential election, 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus_presidential_election,_2010

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