Cyprus, a 'torn' island

I once received a postcard with a few stamps from Cyprus from a friend. What was striking was that the card showed the globe on the image side—a beautiful photograph. In the bottom left corner, two stamps were affixed, a pair, depicting the same globe but split into two parts in the shape of a heart. The stamps were cancelled with a stamp in the shape of a flattened globe, bearing the date May 4, 2009, and only the country name in three languages: English, Greek, and Turkish. Collectors call such a card a maximum card. I will leave aside whether this card fully meets the standards set for it. Specialists may comment on that. On the address side of the card, a sentence was included that got me thinking: Planet Earth. There is no place like Earth anywhere else in the Universe. A beautiful saying, but does it also apply to Cyprus itself? The history of the island paints a very different picture. For decades now, it has been divided into two parts. The cause lies in the strategic location of the island: between the great old empires that arose and were lost, between present-day Europe and Asia, between Greece and Turkey. The island is divided into two parts, a Greek area and a Turkish area, separated by a neutral zone established by the United Nations. The official languages ​​in the two areas are Cypriot Greek and Cypriot Turkish. Furthermore, there are several bases controlled by Great Britain. The Greek region uses the Euro as currency, but the Turkish part uses the Turkish Lira. Will reunification ever occur? Looking at the two stamps, I think it could take a long time. After all, the globe can also be torn in two. Could that have been the underlying thought behind the issuance of the two stamps as a pair?