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.
Posmatrači poput profesora Džozefa Džozefa sa Kiparskog univerziteta kažu da stariji pripadnici oba naroda, koji se sećaju "starih dobrih vremena" mirnog suživota pre 1963, žele ponovno ujedinjenje, kao i obrazovani, manje pristrasni pripadnici mlađe gneeracije.