... negotiating but peace talks failed till now. The United States did not want to see relations worsen between two neighbouring Nato countries (Greece and Turkey) and so there has been no shortage of incentives to find a solution for the Cyprus problem. And though the quiet crisis (Butt, 2001, www.news.bbc.co.uk/) has not been resolved in the last couple of years, there are a lot of signs that in the near future, a unification might be possible, something that few would have expected. This leads to the central question of this essay, namely what are the socio-economic fault lines between Greek and Turkish Cyprus that will make it hard for the two parts to be reunited and that have kept peace-talks from succeeding in these 30-years of division? An outline First of all this essay will provide a more thorough background on the historical reasons for the Turkish invasion and then it ...

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