‘Why can there be no peace?’ Cyprus remains divided 50 years on

‘Why can there be no peace?’ Cyprus remains divided 50 years on

As both sides of the island mark the war that began on 20 July 1974, it is in the knowledge that almost nothing has changed

For 47 years Giorgos and Despoina Kleitou have lived at 52 Democracy Street.

When they moved into the newly built, three-bedroom house in Latsia, on the southern fringes of Nicosia, the Greek Cypriot couple were in their prime. And, like so many others forcibly displaced by war on this eastern Mediterranean island, they still had dreams.

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