Cyprus peace talks interrupted by old plebiscite row

A man rides a bicycle past a barricade outside the U.N. buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

ATHENS (Reuters) - Cyprus reunification talks broke off on Thursday, sources at the meeting said, after the Greek Cypriot parliament voted to commemorate a 1950 plebiscite seeking union with Greece - angering Turkish Cypriots.

Thursday's meeting between Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, Mustafa Akinci, ended about an hour after it started, sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.