In the 1980s, a majority of the 45,000 or so displaced Turkish Cypriots signed a piece of paper surrendering their…
A couple of weeks ago, someone challenged me on Twitter for suggesting that there were around 162,000 original Greek Cypriot…
I have long argued that the property aspect of the Cyprus problem cannot be solved until the number-crunchers sit side by side with the political negotiators. This is because one can argue for years over an issue that seems enormous in theory but once you do the numbers, it becomes smaller in practice. For example, a small proportion of Greek Cypriot dispossessed owners owns a very large amount of land, and vice versa.