PBS News Weekend

Season 6, Episode 79 of 99

Will Cyprus be reunified? The island, in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, is a former British colony that gained its independence in 1960. But since the mid-1970's, it's been politically divided between its two main ethnic groups: Greeks and Turks. Now, analysts see an opportunity to settle a conflict which has at times brought two members of the NATO military alliance of Greece and Turkey to the brink of war. NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Livesay went to Cyprus to the explain the history and the prospects for peace.

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