Anadolu Agency - What could a 'new' Cyprus look like?

Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots could face the biggest decision of their lives this year if current peace talks lead to their divided island's reunification.

A professor of political science and international relations at Northern Cyprus-based Eastern Mediterranean University, Sozen – who has spent 20 years on the Cyprus conflict – talked to Anadolu Agency. 

In other words, everyone on the island would be citizens of a united federation; however, they would be educated in their own schools in their mother tongue and live under their own autonomy.

Therefore, the island’s unification would bring more gains for Turkish Cypriots than Greek ones, because Turks would be EU citizens in the end.

The Turkish side of the island would use the euro [official currency of the eurozone which consists of 19 of the EU’s member states] instead of its current currency, the Turkish lira.

President of the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce, Fikri Toros, who is also a businessman in Northern Cyprus, claimed that Cyprus’s employment capacity would rise sharply after unification, especially in tourism – the island’s main source of income.

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