Decades after division Cypriots still hope for unity

Every week for the past 20 years, a group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots have gathered in a cobbled courtyard in Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia to reminisce about the past and dream of a reunited homeland.

With the longest stalemate in peace negotiations in memory, it is a bleak prospect.

Andreas Paralikis and his friends jokingly refer to themselves as the Traitors Club, among an ever-expanding civil society seeking to forge links across the divide where politicians have failed.