Fifty years after war cleaved Cyprus along ethnic lines, tensions are flaring again along the 180-kilometer-long United Nations controlled buffer zone in an already tumultuous region. The divide harkens back to the island nation’s tortured politics, culminating in a Turkish invasion in 1974 triggered by a coup.
United Nations Peacekeepers walk inside the U.N.-controlled buffer zone in the center of Cyprus ’ divided capital, Nicosia, Thursday, June 6, 2024. Fifty years after war cleaved Cyprus along ethnic lines, tensions are rekindling along the 180-kilometer-long buffer zone separating Turkish Cypriots from Greek Cypriots. It’s another potential source of instability in an already tumultuous region. U.N. Peacekeepers are seen at Nicosia’s Toyota show room inside the U.N.
“No one’s listening,” Col. Ramsay told the Associated Press during a tour through the inaccessible buffer zone’s abandoned homes and businesses left to the ravages of time. “A miscalculation is a matter of time.”Cyprus records a second death from heatstroke as temperatures soar Now, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of a war that left Cyprus as the only remaining divided European Union member,So far in 2024, there’s been a 70% increase in breaches on the buffer zone compared to a year ago, Col. Ramsay said, mainly due to construction from both sides inside the neutral territory. In 2023, there was a 60% rise in such violations.
The Turkish Cypriots have challenged UNFICYP’s authority inside the buffer zone to try and pressure the world body into acknowledging the statehood they unilaterally declared in 1983. Only Turkey recognizes the breakaway state and keeps more than 35,000 troops there. The latest attempt by the U.N. chief’s personal envoy, María Angela Holguín Cuéllar, to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table
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