Our View: Linking the Cyprus issue to EU-Turkey relations is just an obstacle

When President Nikos Christodoulides persuaded the European Union to make EU-Turkey relations dependent on progress on the Cyprus problem, this was presented as great achievement. The linking of the two was seen as an effective way of persuading Ankara to adopt a more constructive approach to the Cyprus problem and abandon its insistence on a two-state solution.

As a theory it sounded rather convincing, but as a strategy that would lead to a breakthrough in the Cyprus problem and possibly a...