NATO and the Cyprus problem: the debate DISY and AKEL are avoiding

NATO is back on the political agenda, quite possibly thanks to the summit in Turkey, which Erdogan was only too happy to turn into a personal showcase for Turkish dominance in the region. This isn’t the first time NATO has resurfaced in the Cypriot political conversation, and as ever, it collapses into the same tired tug-of-war between DISY and AKEL, one that ends up having precisely nothing to do with the actual substance of the issue.

Rather than the usual vague sloganeering, it would be far...