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Cyprus has been a bone of contention for a thousand years, and the division of the island, which occupies a strategic position in the Eastern Mediterranean, is an open sore that remains unhealed.
After a five-year hiatus marked by increasingly heated relations, sabre-rattling and near conflict, Greece and Turkey have taken a tentative step towards reconciliation, agreeing to resume talks in an attempt to avert further military escalation in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. Following a three-hour meeting of delegations from both sides in Istanbul on Monday, diplomatic sources confirmed the high-level contacts would continue, with a.