As the two sides trade conditions for restarting talks, proposals multiply, red lines harden and the Cyprus problem appears to circle back to debates that have been revisited for decades.
No one denies Turkish Cypriots suffered in 1963-74. But after 1974 the burden wasn’t even: Ankara handed them ready-made houses, property, jobs and salaries -on land they’d never ruled- along with insults and a heavy dose of Ottoman arrogance.