Mete Hatay comments in the Cyprus Mail article: Cyprus hits back at ‘skyscrapers on stolen lands’

Mete Hatay of PRIO Cyprus Centre, who has done extensive studies on the property issue, underlines that there are problems with the property regime in the Republic of Cyprus too,...

Mete Hatay comments in Sunday Mail article 'Stark increase in north’s population' by Esra Aygin

“We know that the population is at least half a million, but we don’t have the necessary details to make a healthy estimate,” says Hatay. He adds that “in any case, at any given moment, Turkish Cypriots are a minority in the northern part of Cyprus.

Mete Hatay interviewed on the recent developments in Varosha

Senior Researcher Mete Hatay comments in The Telegraph, on the building boom and the increase in population in north Cyprus.

"Over the past ten years the north’s population has swelled from 300,000 to 550,000, largely as a result of an influx from Turkey...

Mete Hatay comments in article The Curious Case of a Cyprus Ghost Town

But Mete Hatay, a Cyprus-born senior research consultant with Peace Research Institute Oslo who has long studied the conflict, says indications are that the countries will not discuss Cyprus even as they intend to "move further with their bilateral relations."

Mete Hatay will be a participant in the panel discussion, Managing Conflicts with De Facto States: Do Economic Actors and Interests Matter?

From Transnistria to South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Kosovo and Northern Cyprus: The presence of de facto states close to, or at the borders of the European Union is considered a security problem.

Mete Hatay and Ipek Borman interviewed in the Cyprus Mail, on their recent PCC Policy Brief

Earthquake Politics: A Reflection on Aftershocks in Cyprus

Mete Hatay comments in Cyprus Mail article

While conceding that an annexation of the northern part of Cyprus is possible, PRIO Cyprus Centre's Senior Researcher Mete Hatay underlines that this will have consequences for Turkey and warns that talking so much about this possibility may prove to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

FAIR project workshop takes place in Cyprus

​The PRIO project “On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation” (FAIR) organized a workshop in Cyprus in partnership with the PRIO Cyprus Centre, PRIO Middle East Centre, and the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security, 19-21 October.