Topic - Turkish Cypriots

Turkish Cypriots are the ethnic Turks and members of the Turkish-speaking ethnolinguistic community of the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The term is used to refer explicitly to the indigenous Turkish Cypriots, whose Ottoman Turkish forbears colonised the island in 1571. About 30,000 Turkish soldiers were given land once they settled in Cyprus, - Source: Wikipedia

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Abandoned houses behind barbed wires inside the U.N controlled buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, April 29, 2021. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots failed to make headway in informal talks on the future of their ethnically divided island, but talks will continue and “I do not give up.” The United Nations chief invested his political capital in overseeing three days of talks in Geneva aimed at re-igniting dormant negotiations to reunify Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN-led informal Cyprus talks stall, new round planned

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