On that we'll have to part company. There's no reason that Cyprus shouldn't be divided politically as well as culturally. There's no more reason for it to be politically unified than there is for the island of Hispaniola to be. Since 1960, the Greek Cypriotes have systematically and consistently rejected every solution to the problem that has been internationally brokered. The government of Greece has missiles and an airbase on the "independent" Greek portion of the island.
If you were to withdraw the two main belligerent parties, i.e. Greece and Turkey, there's no reason to believe that the two heretofore divided portions of the island couldn't be successfully integrated into one nation-state.
Clarides-in some ways-was a visionary leader, and he was punished for it by voters whipped into a chauvinistic frenzy, in no small measure because of blatantly partisan mainland politicians, like Papendreau.
I don't think that the situation in Cyprus is comparable to that in Hispaniola, whose two nations share an embittered, violent history-punctuated by the enslavement of one portion of it for over two decades, and repeated military interventions by one side or other during the 20th century-which isn't conducive to reconciliation.
The Greek and Turkish cypriots share a common cultural history.
If you were able to wall them off from the bigotry and petty political gamesmanship of their respective benefactors on either side of the Aegean Sea they would-in all likelihood-be able to unify in a-comparatively speaking-tranquil society.
Granted, it wouldn't be Utopia-in any sense of the term-but it would be a vast improvement upon the status quo.