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• Cyprus is an island divided in two where two communities have opposedeach other for more than twenty years.

  Cyprus is an island divided in two where two communities have opposed each other for more than twenty years. A former British colony independent since 1960, the island of Cyprus is situated to the South of Turkey in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1974, the Turkish army invaded the Northern third of the island, following an attempted cut by the Greek Cypriots. Since then, Cyprus has been divided into two parts, separated by a sealed buffer zone occupied by 2,000 UN troops. The standard of living on th...