The Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, according to an article in the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak will be proposing a linguistic division of Cyprus similar to the Belgian Government Model instead of an ethnic division. Under this proposal, only Turkish-speaking civilians will be allowed to live in the ‘Turkish’ side while only Greek-speaking civilians will be allowed to live in the ‘Greek’ side with the exception of persons who are over 65 years old. Similarly to Brussels, Nicosia will be bilingual.
Eroglu to propose a ‘linguistic’ division in Geneva
