NICOSIA — Cypriots are suffering from the lack of cohesion over the future of Cyprus, leaving Greek Cypriots to benefit from the delay, the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Derviş Eroğlu, has said.
Eroğlu stated on Wednesday that negotiations with Greek Cypriots would continue. He said, "The Greek side benefits from the island's status, while we are the ones suffering and that is why we are willing to find a compromise."
"I hope we will be able to find an agreement and we need the agreement to be permanent."
Eroğlu said that previous negotiations over a period of seven months between the Greek and Turkish sides in Cyprus under the Greek administration's former leader Dimitris Christofias had been on track and the two sides had started to agree on some terms.
However, negotiations are back at a starting point under the Greek Cypriot administration's current leader, Nicos Anastasiades, said Eroğlu.
Cyprus has remained divided between Greek and Turkish parts since a Greek Cypriot coup was followed by a Turkish peace mission to aid Turkish Cypriots in the north in 1974.
Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders have been engaged in a peace process to reunify the island since February.
The Greek Cypriot administration is a member of the EU and is internationally recognized, except by Turkey, which is the only country that recognizes the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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