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Cypriot refugees are the Cypriot nationals or Cyprus residents who had their main residence (as opposed to merely owning property) in an area forcibly evacuated during the Cyprus conflict. The government of Cyprus also recognizes as refugees the descendants of the original refugees in the male line regardless of place of birth. [1]
Under international law, a refugee is a person who has fled their own country of nationality or habitual residence, ... Cyprus: 4.99 29,280 12,325 8,484 5,763: 5,126:
Cyprus – In 2024 Cyprus had 30,000 Syrian refugees under subsidiary protection. [ 238 ] Denmark – In September 2015 public concerns remained about the arrival of refugees, and was shifting to concern over the immediate issues revolving around those already in Denmark.
Cyprus is expanding capacity to host refugees as it braces itself for a new influx of people fleeing deepening conflict in the Middle East, authorities said on Monday. The number of asylum seekers ...
Lebanon — which is coping with a crippling economic crisis since 2019 — hosts some 805,000 U.N.-registered Syrian refugees, of which 90% live in poverty, the U.N.’s refugee agency says.
According to the UNHCR, the United Nations' refugee agency, Cyprus received 6,481 new asylum applications in the seven months to July 2023, as opposed to 21,565 applications for the whole of 2022.
A few thousand refugees, mostly Greeks but also a "considerable number" of Jews from the Balkans, had reached Cyprus during the war years. [5] Moshe Vilenski playing piano and Shoshana Damari singing at Internment Camps in Cyprus (ca. 1947–48) At its peak there were nine camps in Cyprus, located at two sites about 50 km apart.
About 8,000 Armenian refugees arrive in Cyprus, of whom about 1,300 settle permanently. These refugees mainly hailed from Adana, Silifke, Sis, Marash, Tarsus, Caesarea, Hadjin and Aintab. 1916–1918: The Armenian Legion is formed and trained in Monarga, near Boghazi, consisting of over 4,000 Diasporan Armenians, who later fought the Ottoman ...