Our View: Cyprus stuck between rock and hard place on refugees

26-6-2019 Cyprus Mail CyprusMail Cool

Our View: Cyprus stuck between rock and hard...

AS IF Cyprus did not have enough issues with Turkey, it’s slowly emerging that Ankara appears to be facilitating people-smugglers by allowing asylum-seekers to fly to the north from where they are guided to the crossings to the south of the island by Turkish Cypriot authorities.

Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides seems to have been banging his head against a brick wall for the past two years when it comes to pushing Europe into sharing the burden of asylum numbers but nothing has changed except the growing influx. Numbers released on Monday from...

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Our View: Cyprus stuck between rock and hard place on refugees

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