“Can we trust the Greek side?”

A week ago, we made a video asking Greek Cypriots in Nicosia if they felt they could trust the Turkish side.

In the days since that video, much has changed. The two leaders have returned from Mont Pelerin, and the talks on the Cyprus problem seem to have broken down (at least temporarily). Despite the new circumstances, we felt it was only fair to show the other side of the coin – so we went to Lefkosia and asked a selection of people if they felt they could trust the Greeks.

The selection is necessarily random, though we’ve tried for a representative sample as far as possible. The only question, of course – which was much less relevant on the south side – is whether all of our interviewees would be eligible to vote in a referendum on a possible solution.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.