The resumption of the UN led negotiations in Cyprus in May 2015 has revived hopesthat a solution to the more than forty-year division of the Island is possible. While the EU is currently facing a plethora of challenges ranging from the refugee crisis generated by the threat posed by the advance of the ISIS to its south, an ever unstable and turbulent Middle East with the humanitarian cost of the Syrian crisis deteriorating, to instability in Ukraine and mounting tension with an ever assertive Russia, recent developments in the Eastern Mediterranean have raised hopes that the resolution to one of the most enduring frozen conflicts in Europe is within reach.

IKV Brief Note "A Solution to the Cyprus Issue is Finally within Reach" (No: 37) prepared by IKV Researcher Yeliz Şahin is published. To read the brief note, please click here.