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The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Nicosia

UNCOVERED: Why can there be no peace cyprus remains divided 50 years on | History Defined

An elderly man gestures as he sits at his kitchen table.
Giorgos fled Angastina during the invasion with just the clothes on his back. ‘We dreamed we would go back,’ he says. Photograph: Kostas Pikoulas

For 47 years Giorgos and Despoina Kleitou have lived at 52 Democracy Street.

When they moved into the state-provided, three-bedroom house in Latsia, on the southern fringes of Nicosia, the Greek Cypriot couple were in their prime. And, like so many others forcibly displaced by war on this eastern Mediterranean island, they still had dreams.

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