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A man with a Cyprus flag stands in front of the Varosha or Famagusta, abandoned city, during a protest against the Turkish President visiting the Turkish occupied part of the island in Dherynia, Cyprus, Monday, July 19, 2021
GREEK Cypriots have lodged a formal protest with the United Nations and the European Union after Turkey revealed that it would reopen a residential section of an abandoned military-controlled suburb.
On Tuesday, Turkey’s North Cyprus puppet state said that part of Varosha would come under civilian control and people would be able to reclaim properties.
Varosha, a military zone nobody has been allowed to enter, has been deserted since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 split the island – leaving high-rise hotels and residences empty.
Mass strikes over cost-of-living protections have escalated into a broader confrontation over democracy, after the government moved to impose a pay freeze by decree, writes KIVANC ELIACIK
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
