Our View: Half a century too late to cosy up to the West

For the last half-century, every year, on July 15 we hear and read the same narratives about the Greek Junta-inspired coup against President Makarios, which gave Turkey the pretext to invade Cyprus five days later. Apart from the obligatory outrage, justifiably, expressed by Akel about the right-wing governments honouring the Greek Cypriot commandos who fell in the national guard’s attack on the presidential palace, there is the usual Nato/US-bashing.

Although 52 years have passed since the...