The discussion centered on a recent PRIO Cyprus Centre policy brief, co-authored by Bart Klem (University of Gothenburg) and Emmanuel Achiri (European Network Against Racism, Brussels).
In March 2024, Bülent Dizdarlı, a respected Turkish Cypriot doctor and former head of the medical association, speculated on his Facebook page that the population of the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) had reached two million.
"Over the past ten years the north’s population has swelled from 300,000 to 550,000, largely as a result of an influx from Turkey...
But Mete Hatay, a Cyprus-born senior research consultant with Peace Research Institute Oslo who has long studied the conflict, says indications are that the countries will not discuss Cyprus even as they intend to "move further with their bilateral relations."
A new PCC Policy Brief by Mete Hatay is out, looking at the cost of the international community's disengagement with Cyprus and potential ways to revive negotiations.
The PRIO project “On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation” (FAIR) organized a workshop in Cyprus in partnership with the PRIO Cyprus Centre, PRIO Middle East Centre, and the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, 19-21 October.
The new open accessbook Livesin Peace Research: The Oslo Stories explains how PRIO, the world'soldest independent peace research institute, was founded and how it survivedthrough crises.
Last night, PRIO Cyprus Centre Senior Research Consultant Mete Hatay received the Necati Özkan Award by the Necati Özkan Foundation for best researcher of the last three years.
Hosted by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Cyprus office
A new film by Mete Hatay (PRIO Cyprus Centre) and Orhan Eskiköy (independent director).
Today at the Ledra Palace in Nicosia, Mete Hatay had the honor to meet with President of the European Council, Charles Michel.
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2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the PRIO Cyprus Centre
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The demography of North Cyprus is one of the most contested issues related to the island's division.
State Secretary Vidar Helgesen of the Norwegian MFA attended the successful opening of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, Cyprus.
At the opening of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, a new report on the 'settlers' from Turkey in Northern Cyprus is launched.