In today’s episode, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday that as long as the international community, including the EU turns a blind eye to Turkey’s belligerence, it rewards the aggressor.

He was addressing an anti-occupation event by Morphou residents in Astromeritis and said nothing else could explain the behaviour of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

In other news, Famagusta police are close to solving 25 residential burglaries after the arrest of a suspect during a stakeout at a housing complex and the discovery of stolen property in his possession.

The suspect, a 24-year-old man, was identified by CID Famagusta who, as police said, participated in a coordinated operation at a residential complex where a number of burglaries and thefts have been committed, with the aim of identifying the perpetrator.

Elsewhere, EU Transport Commissioner Adina Valean is in Cyprus to attend the opening of the Maritime Cyprus conference in Limassol, which takes place today.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.