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“In nearly all instances, the asylum seekers found their way into government-controlled areas from where they were intercepted by the Cyprus Police and forcibly dumped into the buffer zone after ...
New asylum seekers to Cyprus will be excluded from a re-settlement scheme to another EU member state to stop any abuse of the system, authorities said on Wednesday. Strategically placed at the ...
NICOSIA (Reuters) -Cyprus has suspended the processing of asylum applications from Syrians following a sharp increase in irregular arrivals this month, authorities said on Sunday. More than 1,000 ...
NICOSIA (Reuters) -Cyprus police arrested 21 people after violent clashes involving immigrants and residents of a community in the west of the island which has a large population of asylum-seekers.
Asylum seekers have been stranded in a U.N. controlled buffer zone splitting Cyprus for weeks, caught up in the conflict which divides the island and a government getting increasingly tough on ...
As in all countries, UNHCR Cyprus has a supervisory role under the 1951 Refugee Convention in ensuring that the rights of asylum seekers and refugees are duly respected. That means in practice, having access to the asylum procedures, to adequate housing, food, medical treatment and to integration as a long term solution to the refugee plight.
In December 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz conveyed to Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that Germany intended welcome 500 asylum seekers from Cyprus. [7] Following this, 48 applicants for international protection were relocated from Cyprus to Germany for voluntary relocation. These asylum seekers were from Syria and Afghanistan. [8] [9]
The figures for internally displaced Cypriots varies, the United Peacekeeping force in Cyprus estimates 165,000 Greek Cypriots and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots. The UNHCR registers slightly higher figures of 200,000 and 65,000 respectively, being partly based on official Cypriot statistics which register children of displaced families as refugees.