Editing Cyprus problem (section)

===Two-state solution===
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[[File:Congressional Research Service Report R41136 - Cyprus - Reunification Proving Elusive.pdf|thumb|A 2019 [[Congressional Research Service]] report on reunification]]
[[Turkey]] has often expressed its support for the two-state solution, most notably by Turkish President [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] during his visit to Northern Cyprus in 2020.<ref name="reuters-cyprus">{{cite news |title=Erdogan visits Northern Cyprus, calls for two-state solution for island |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-cyprus-turkey/erdogan-visits-breakaway-northern-cyprus-after-ally-wins-vote-idUSKBN27V0B5 |work=Reuters |date=15 November 2020}}</ref> 
A number of observers suggest partition is the best solution.<ref>For example:
*{{cite book|title=The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know|author=((James Ker-Lindsay (UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Cyprus)))|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=April 2011|isbn=978-0199757152|ref=none }}
*{{cite news|author=Hugo Gobbi (United Nations Secretary General's former Special Representative on Cyprus)|newspaper=Cyprus Mail|date=26 February 1996|title=Partition may be the only solution|ref=none}}
*James Ker-Lindsay (expert advisor to UN Special Advisor on Cyprus): "As the status quo in Cyprus becomes untenable, perhaps the solution lies in a more radical option – partition." {{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/sep/03/theunmentionablesolutionpart2|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=The unmentionable solution - part 2| author=James Ker-Lindsay|date=3 September 2007|access-date=18 May 2018|ref=none}}
* Michael Moran (Sussex University). {{cite web| title=Denktaş: Toplu mezarlar zamanına döneriz |language= tr |url= http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/dunya/11888506_p.asp|date=18 June 2009|website=Hürriyet}}
* Riz Khan (Al-Jazeera): {{cite news|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2010/11/2010111792144257228.html|title=Cyprus: time for formal partition?| date=10 November 2010|access-date=18 May 2018}}
* Jack Straw (UK Foreign Secretary): "Cyprus should be partitioned". Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/3kNTTmJSA8E Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150705175923/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kNTTmJSA8E Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kNTTmJSA8E|title=Today|work=BBC Radio 4|date=8 November 2010}}{{cbignore}}
*{{cite web|author=William Chislett| publisher=[[Elcano Royal Institute|Real Instituto Elcano]]|location=Spain|url=http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/web/rielcano_en/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_in/zonas_in/europe/dt21-2010|title=Cyprus: Time for a Negotiated Partition?|date=5 July 2010|ref=none}}
*Marios Matsakis (Greek Cypriot [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]), Hermes Solomon and Loucas Charalambous (Greek Cypriot columnists, ''Cyprus Mail''), Nicola Solomonides (Greek Cypriot academic), Rauf Denktas (founder of Northern Cyprus)
*Clement Dodd: "Exactly fifty years after Cyprus became independent, the chances of reuniting the island look slim." Quoted in {{cite news|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/To+those+who+think+Cyprus+cannot+be+partitioned...it+already+is.-a0244119745|newspaper=Cyprus Mail|date=12 December 2010| title=To those who think Cyprus cannot be partitioned...it already is.}}
*Chaim Kaufmann, quoted in {{cite book|year=1999|chapter=When All Else Fails: Evaluating Population Transfers and Partition as Solutions to Ethnic Conflict|author1=Barbara F. Walter|author2=Jack Snydered|title=Civil War, Insecurity, and Intervention|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=248|quote=We should not fail to separate populations in cases that have already produced large-scale violence and intense security dilemmas.|ref=none}}
*{{cite journal|author=Chaim Kaufmann|date=22 May 2007|title=An Assessment of the Partition of Cyprus|journal=International Studies Perspectives|volume=8|issue=2|pages=220–221|quote=the partition of Cyprus contributed to the settlement of violent conflict there|doi=10.1111/j.1528-3585.2007.00281.x|ref=none}}
*[http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/01/12/our-view-gas-role-in-talks-the-latest-in-long-line-of-fantasies Cyprus Mail, 12 January 2014]: "The only Plan B on offer is partition which may well be the only viable solution after all these years, but this should be made clear."</ref>