A woman hangs her clothes to dry behind a barricade of sandbags at the U.N. buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus February 22, 2017. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou
ANKARA/ATHENS (Reuters) - Cyprus reunification talks were in disarray on Wednesday after reports the Turkish Cypriot side would not join this week's meeting in an escalating row that opened old wounds over past Greek Cypriot ambitions to unite with Greece.
Talks between Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci were abruptly interrupted last week over a decision taken by Greek Cypriot lawmakers to honour the 1950 "enosis" referendum seeking union with Greece.
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