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imagine the very same occupying power the force that keeps the island devided the ones who are doing everything in their power to stop a solution from happening and it says this

NICOSIA -- Turkey's foreign minister urged the United Nations and the European Union on Tuesday to take a more active role in the talks aimed at reunifying Cyprus.

Ahmet Davutoglu said a stalemate in the talks regarding the divided island nation is harming the EU's strategic interests in the eastern Mediterranean.

"I still call for active involvement of all international actors, especially the U.N. and the EU in order to reach a comprehensive solution," Davutoglu said after talks with the breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in the capital, Nicosia.

"Now it is time for the EU to work very hard to achieve a peace which will guarantee the strategic interests of the EU in this region."

Cyprus was split into a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish Cypriot north in 1974, when Turkey invaded in response to a short-lived coup by supporters of union with Greece. Turkey only recognizes the breakaway north, where it maintains 35,000 troops.

The island joined the EU in 1974, but only Greek Cypriots enjoy the benefits.

Yearlong talks between Talat and the island's Greek Cypriot president, Dimitris Christofias, have failed to overcome any of the main long-standing differences. (AP)