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04.06.2025
Institutskolloquium IfP (18.06.25) – Cyprus Conundrum and EU Integration Efforts through the Green Line - Regulation: New Pattern for a Federal Solution in a Divided Island?
Speaker: Dr. Nuri Ali Tahir (Universität Bursa / Universität Tübingen)
Wednesday, June 18th 2025, 16:00 c.t. / Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft or online via Zoom
About the lecture:
The Republic of Cyprus has been a member of the European Union since 2004. As the island joined the EU divided, the EU acquis is not implemented in the North where the Government of Cyprus does not exercise effective control. The EU decided to lift the isolation of the northern part of the island in order to give a constructive answer to the positive vote for reunification by the Turkish Cypriot community in the 2004 Annan Plan referendum. The Green Line Regulation was established to allow the flow of trade from the North to the South along with the movement of people and goods. Twenty years later, the island still remains divided with some problems pertaining to the functioning of the Green Line Regulation. This talk will focus on the problematic aspects of Green Line Regulation that persist, affecting the daily life of the Turkish Cypriot Community and also limiting the intercommunal interactions with the Greek Cypriots.
Dr. Nuri Ali Tahir (Nuri Korkmaz) is Associate Professor of International Relations at Bursa Technical University in Turkey. He obtained his PhD in Transborder Policies for Daily Life from the University of Trieste in Italy, MA and BA degrees in International Relations from Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. Previously, he was Marie Curie early stage researcher at Katholieke Uviersiteit Leuven (Belgium), visiting scholar at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the University of Texas at Austin (USA). His research interests are borders, minorities, nationalism in the Balkans, Black Sea Region and its strategic importance, European border management policies, nationalism and religion in the Middle East, European integration of the Balkans. He will be visiting researcher at the University of Tübingen, Institute of Politics between March-August 2025.
The lecture will be held in English