This time, all sides have been moving with great care to build support for a deal that could pass muster with voters on both sides. The negotiations on Thursday focused on new security measures that would satisfy the Turkish Cypriots, whose security is now guaranteed by the presence of 40,000 Turkish troops on the island. PhotoAny peace deal will quite likely include significant changes to or even the elimination of the guarantor power arrangement. “I hope that those representing the two communities will put the common future of the people on the island first,” she said. “And I hope that Greece and Turkey will let this be a decision of the Cypriot society.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2017 21:27 UTC