Ukraine in Arabic | New Turkish Cypriot leader Akinci amplifies reunification resolve

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Few hopes for reunification or at least closer ties and new momentum for the divided communities of Cyprus. Accompany the election Akinci of as leader of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Kiev/ Ukraine in Arabic/ He campaigned on a promise a swift rapprochement with the Greek separate republic . Which alone has maintained official recognition in the eyes of the international community ever since the island's violent division more than forty years ago leaving a UN administered largely abandoned buffer zone .

Cypress gained independence from the UK's administration in nineteen sixty Greek separates the majority and tacky separates had also traditionally lived side by side under earlier Ottoman rule.

Yet new power-sharing arrangements were strained by ambitions for union with Greece .

Following 10 years of inter-communal violence in 1974 the separate National Guard backed by the military than real increase attempted a coup .

Techie invaded operation attila seized the northern third of the island apiece intervention ankara called in Athens the jump to collapsed techie kept the force of some 30,000 in place.