Chypre : une partition inexorable ?

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Chypre : une partition inexorable ?  Des discussions informelles ont eu lieu au printemps sous l’égide de l’ONU, dans l’espoir de relancer les négociations de réunification entre la République de Chypre dirigée par les Chypriotes grecs, au sud, et l’entité séparatiste chypriote turque, au nord.  LIRE L’ARTICLE : http://fr.euronews.com/2025/07/02/chypre-une-partition-inexorable  Abonnez-vous à notre chaine. Euronews est disponible sur Dailymotion en 12 langues

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00:00Ma génération est en train de se battre dans le jeu de blame.

00:03Nous devons penser à nous-mêmes comme une partie de l'île que nous sommes,

00:09si nous l'avons aimé ou pas.

00:11Et nous voulons ensemble pour une île réunitée.

00:15Je suis dans la zone tampon qui marque la séparation de l'île méditerranéenne de Chypre,

00:20divisée depuis 50 ans.

00:23L'ONU veut relancer les pourparlers pour réunifier la communauté grecque

00:28de la République de Chypre au Sud, membre de l'Union Européenne,

00:32et l'entité chypriote turque du Nord que ne reconnaît que la Turquie.

00:37Des projets de réunification déjà anciens qui n'ont jamais pu aboutir.

00:51Chypre est un pays insulaire de la Méditerranée orientale

00:54au carrefour de l'Europe, de l'Asie, du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique.

00:57Elle est divisée depuis 1974, lorsqu'un coup d'État soutenu par la Grèce

01:02et visant à un excès l'île déclencha une intervention militaire turque

01:06dans le Nord de Chypre.

01:08Environ 200 000 chypriotes grecs et turcs furent déplacés.

01:11La République de Chypre, reconnue internationalement,

01:14contrôle depuis le sud de l'île où vivent les chypriotes grecs.

01:17Elle n'a pas de contrôle sur la République turque de Chypre Nord,

01:20autoproclamée, regroupant les chypriotes turcs

01:23et de très nombreux immigrants de Turquie.

01:25Cette entité n'est reconnue que par la Turquie, qui y maintient son armée.

01:31Chypre est membre de l'Union européenne,

01:33mais le droit communautaire ne s'applique pas dans le Nord.

01:35Pour l'Europe, Chypre est une clé pour la stabilité régionale

01:39et le contrôle de l'immigration.

01:41L'accès aux réserves de gaz offshore du pays, bloquées par la Turquie,

01:44est aussi un enjeu pour la sécurité énergétique européenne.

01:48L'Union soutient un plan de fédération bicommunautaire composé de deux zones,

01:52préconisées par l'ONU.

01:54Mais les négociations sur la réunification de Chypre sont au point mort depuis 2017.

01:59Des discussions sont en cours pour relancer une fois de plus,

02:06mais pour parler sur une possible réunification de Chypre,

02:10divisée depuis 50 ans.

02:12L'issue est encore une fois incertaine,

02:15mais j'ai voulu interroger des jeunes chypriotes des communautés turques et grecques de Lille

02:20pour savoir comment eux vivent cette division

02:22et surtout, comment ils envisagent leur avenir.

02:28Hi, I'm Berk.

02:30We are here in Elefteria Square, in Nicosia.

02:33I wanted to be here today because Elefteria, in Greek,

02:38is good looking Turkish, means freedom.

02:43Hi everyone, I'm Christiana

02:45and we are now in one of my favorite places in the north of Nicosia.

02:48This place symbolizes for me community and coexistence

02:52as it is the first social housing project ever completed in Cyprus.

02:58Berk, 28 ans, est chypriote turc.

03:01Christiana, 22 ans, est chypriote grec.

03:04Ils n'ont de cesse de franchir les checkpoints qui marquent la division de Chypre.

03:09We are here now in Litra Street,

03:11the main high street of southern Nicosia.

03:14I like to come here because it's multicultural.

03:17It's nice and makes me feel like

03:20as a person who lives on the northern part of the divide,

03:23that I live in a normal city.

03:26I cross to the north almost every day.

03:28With my friends, we try to have a common life as much as we can.

03:32I will try to ignore the checkpoints.

03:34We usually do a coffee in the north in the morning

03:37and drink in the south in the evening.

03:39And that's how it usually goes.

03:41Christiana et Berk se connaissent bien.

03:45Leur amitié est née d'un combat commun

03:47pour une réunification de l'île.

03:50Ils nous parlent de leur engagement

03:52dans ce café du nord de Nicosie

03:54connu pour ses activités bicommunautaires.

03:57I grew up in the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus

04:03and then I first-hand experienced

04:07what it means to be a European citizen

04:13but technically do not live in the EU

04:17where EU acquis is on force.

04:19Your rights are suspended, there's corruption.

04:22and then of course all the other illegalities

04:26that come with this place

04:28being a legal, internationally black hole.

04:32This geography does not ratify

04:35any international humanitarian law.

04:38Even Interpol cannot have access to it.

04:40This pushes the mafia,

04:42this pushes human trafficking,

04:44this pushes sex trafficking.

04:47I believe the only way out for us

04:49is the agreed-urane framework

04:51which is a bi-zonal, bicommunal federation

04:54as Cyprus being fully reunified

04:57in the European Union

04:58where the EU acquis is applied

05:00all across the island.

05:03For me, the end goal

05:05is to have a completely new narrative.

05:08You have a narrative shaping

05:09the identity of a Greek Cypriot

05:12and a Turkish Cypriot

05:13in our education, in our everyday life

05:15and you have this whole construction

05:17of the other person

05:18that you never really get to meet.

05:21What we need are more common spaces,

05:23more exposure to whatever we deem as the other

05:28so that it is not a threat anymore.

05:31This is not something that is being encouraged

05:34to happen on a larger scale.

05:37If we carry on the way we do now

05:39with the idea of the Federation

05:41taking such a big part

05:43on political discourse

05:45but no practical action towards that,

05:48then nothing will happen.

05:49We have to think ourselves

05:52as part of the whole that we are

05:55whether we like it or not.

05:57Otherwise, we are not going any further.

05:59the perspective of the relations

06:01for a reunification of the Kipre

06:04The perspective of the relations

06:05of the negotiations

06:06for a reunification of the Kipre

06:07pushed by the UN

06:08are more than uncertain

06:09into the eyes of this politologist,

06:11professor at the University of Nicosie

06:13and director of Friedrich Ebert Foundation

06:15at the Kipre Foundation.

06:17It does not look promising at all.

06:19We have not had talks for seven years

06:21and the Turkish Cypriot

06:22and Turkish position has shifted.

06:23They insist on recognition

06:25of equal sovereignty

06:26or even the recognition of the separatist entity,

06:29the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,

06:31which is not internationally recognized,

06:33as a prerequisite for talks.

06:35It's a non-starter.

06:36The Greek-Cypriot side and the international community

06:38will never accept this as a prerequisite.

06:41Can the European Union have any say in this

06:44and what's at stake for Europe?

06:47Well, Europe has a say in it, but a very minor one.

06:51Given that the Greek-Cypriot-dominated Republic of Cyprus

06:53has joined the European Union,

06:55the European Union is no longer perceived

06:57as a neutral arbiter in the conflict.

07:00So Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriots reject

07:02an active role of the European Union,

07:05exceeding giving some framework ideas

07:07what is acceptable or not.

07:09In theory, its stake is that

07:11there's a part of European territory,

07:13legally speaking, that's occupied by Turkey.

07:15There's an unresolved dispute

07:16that permanently pitches the European Union against Turkey,

07:20with many powerful EU member states

07:22having no interest in a confrontation with Turkey,

07:24while a Greek-Cypriot policy is to utilize

07:26their EU membership against Turkey

07:28to get concessions in the Cyprus question.

07:30So the Cyprus problem has become a European problem.

07:33At the same time, this is a stable conflict,

07:36so it's very much conflict management

07:37rather than conflict resolution,

07:40and I fear this is there for years to come.

07:41So this island is slowly drifting

07:43by maintaining the status quo

07:46into permanent petition.

07:47is not facing the USE in Europe and the EU,

07:49I know it's wide open by the Japanese-Cypriot.

07:51We have to use a new country

07:52to get its control and control over the country,

07:53so it's not quite a place to leave.

07:54And I know the U.S.

07:55You can say some of the nations

07:56that have been killed in the world.

07:58I know the people who don't think

07:59they are being killed in the world,

08:00but I know the people who don't think

08:00they know the leaders that are being killed.

08:02They hope there's a new country

08:03about celebrating their country.

08:04I know the people who are going to be killed

08:06and that they are now living in the world.

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