Mete Hatay: All news

18 news items

Tuesday, 15 Oct 2024
Yesterday, we hosted a significant panel discussion on the critical issue of forced migration in Cyprus. A topic further complicated by the island’s historical and political divisions.

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).

Tuesday, 25 Jun 2024
Read the latest blog post from Mete Hatay: Turkish Cypriots and “Demographic Danger”

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.

Sunday, 4 Feb 2024
Senior Researcher Mete Hatay comments in The Telegraph, on the building boom and the increase in population in north Cyprus.

"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...

Thursday, 9 Nov 2023
Mete Hatay comments in article The Curious Case of a Cyprus Ghost Town

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."

Thursday, 31 Aug 2023
Heated Transformation of a Frozen Conflict: Jumpstarting a Process in a Changing Island

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.

Thursday, 27 Oct 2022
FAIR project workshop takes place in Cyprus

​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.

Sunday, 8 May 2022
The History of PRIO and Peace Research: New Open Access Book

​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.

Tuesday, 19 Apr 2022
Mete Hatay Receives the Necati Özkan Award

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.

Tuesday, 9 Mar 2021
2 New podcasts with Mete Hatay on Varosha and the Cyprus Youth

Hosted by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Cyprus office

Friday, 18 Dec 2020
Spaces of Reconciliation: Youth Interaction through Art in the City

​A new film by Mete Hatay (PRIO Cyprus Centre) and Orhan Eskiköy (independent director).

Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020
Charles Michel visits Cyprus

​Today at the Ledra Palace in Nicosia, Mete Hatay had the honor to meet with President of the European Council, Charles Michel.

Friday, 21 Jun 2019
Mete Hatay awarded “best journalist of the year“ by the secondary school teachers and students of Morphou

​Article only available in Turkish here: https://www.

Saturday, 6 Jun 2015
PCC Anniversary Celebration

​2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the PRIO Cyprus Centre

Wednesday, 8 Apr 2015
PRIO Cyprus Centre: New Premises

Adress: Arsinois 52, 1010 Nicosia

Friday, 30 Sep 2011
New Website on Displacement in Cyprus

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Friday, 28 Dec 2007
Is the Turkish Cypriot Population Shrinking?

The demography of North Cyprus is one of the most contested issues related to the island's division.

Wednesday, 7 Sep 2005
PRIO Cyprus Centre

State Secretary Vidar Helgesen of the Norwegian MFA attended the successful opening of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Wednesday, 7 Sep 2005
PRIO Report on 'Settlers' in Northern Cyprus

At the opening of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, a new report on the 'settlers' from Turkey in Northern Cyprus is launched.

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