Hopes Rise for Unification of Strategically Important Island of Cyprus

Hopes Rise for Unification of Strategically Important Island of Cyprus

Cyprus’s Nicosia is the only capital city in the world still divided, as United Nations peacekeeping troops man a buffer zone between two communities. The island, which holds a strategically important position in the eastern Mediterranean and is only 250 miles from the coast of Israel, has been divided since 1974, when the Turkish army invaded, ostensibly to defend the Turkish Cypriot minority from extremists within the Greek Cypriot majority. O…