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The meandering Buffer Zone marks the southernmost points that the Turkish troops occupied during the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in August 1974, running between the ceasefire lines of the Cypriot National Guard and Turkish army that de facto divides Cyprus into two, cutting through the capital of Nicosia.
The island’s Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides put the blame for buffer zone violations squarely on Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots, although the U.N. says high-tech surveillance ...
Turkish Cypriot bulldozers had moved U.N. trucks, cement bollards and barbed wire in the United Nations-administered buffer zone splitting the island. UN peacekeepers hurt in Cyprus buffer zone ...
The Cyprus government has taken a tough line with migrant crossings along the 180-kilometer (120 mile) length of the buffer zone, insisting that it would not permit it to become a gateway for ...
Cyprus had in recent years seen a major increase in migrants seeking asylum after reaching the north from Turkey and crossing the buffer zone. A combination of tough measures including stepped up police patrols along the southern fringes of the buffer zone, accelerated asylum claims processing and expedited repatriation procedures have reduced ...
Migrant crossings from the north to the south have dropped precipitously in recent months after Cypriot authorities enacted a series of stringent measures including the installation of cameras and special police patrols along sections of the 180-kilometer (120 mile) long buffer zone. The Cyprus government ceded control of the buffer zone to U.N ...
The leaders met for nearly two hours at the official residence of Colin Stewart, the U.N. peacekeeping force’s chief of mission in Cyprus, to hammer out an agreement on opening new crossing points at specific points along a 180-kilometer (120-mile) U.N.-controlled buffer zone that cuts across the island.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of international peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone ...