This study aims to understand the nature of the increasingly tense relations between Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots as well as Greek Cypriots’ feelings about Turkey. The context for this report is a decade of rapid and unpredictable change in an island that in the previous almost thirty years had seemed mired in an unchanging status quo.

Hence, while the impetus for this report is the RoC’s EU presidency, that milestone is itself overshadowed by other circumstances that have the potential to reconfigure the Cyprus Problem and the possibilities for its resolution.

The report uses a set of fifty extended interviews to present Cypriots’ anxieties, hopes, and fears regarding their relationships with Turkey today and possibilities for the future.