Were Turkey to accept that as the basis, they’d lose everything and gain nothing. With that as the end result, Turkey has no reason to budge either.

The only viable solution to the problem facing the island is to allow Turkey to annex the North, and Greece to annex the South.

Unfortunately Greece wants to get a review of the results of the Greco-Turkish war during the early 1920s where they were routed and lost all of Anatolian Greece.

The situation in Cyprus is a result of British interference back then (imagine that).

It should have been divided back then, but instead became a British possession effectively freezing the situation on the island until the day Cyprus became independent. Unfrozen in time the Greeks and Turks started to fight against each other as if it were the 1920s all over again.

This time however in a much changed world the Greeks hoped to capitalize on European’s fear of Turkish power despite not having the power vs a vs Turkey to demand anything.

They pushed for ALL the island to be annexed to Greece, instead of the portion that would have been theirs had Cyprus been included in the final settlement of the war they had.

The stalemate years on resulted in the idiotic situation we have today The Greek portion of Cyprus unable to merge with Greece became an nonviable independent nation dependent on the EU to maintain a ruse of success which they did until the 2008 world economic collapse.

Turkey occupied the Turkish half and has never left.

Because of EU and Greek intransigence regarding the stupidity of making borders inviolable regardless of the idiocy and duplicity that was behind their creation, this problem will probably not be resolved in the foreseeable future.

So it’s a good thing the Turks are taking care of their portion.