They want it all before talks even start

Ahead of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s visit to the island, the occupying side is setting conditions and prerequisites for breaking the deadlock and restarting talks. Of course, if their conditions were met and their demands satisfied, the Turkish side would have no reason left to cooperate. Because by then, it would already have everything it wanted.

Nicosia has spent this whole period systematically and methodically pushing for developments so a new initiative can move forward and...