Posmatrači poput profesora Josepha Josepha sa Univerziteta na Kipru kažu da stariji pripadnici obiju zajednica -- koji se sjećaju "dobrih starih vremena" mirnog suživota prije 1963. -- žele ujedinjenje, kao i obrazovani, pa time vjerovatno i manje pristrani pripadnici mlađe generacije.
Observers such as Professor Joseph Joseph of the University of Cyprus say the older members of both communities -- who remember the "good old days" of peaceful co-existence before 1963 -- want reunification, as do the educated, presumably less biased members of the younger generation.