#buffer zone

All was quiet in Deneia on Thursday, with community leader Charalambos Alexandrou calling on the state to take a tougher stance towards the UN. This follows recent incidents  with Turkish ...

Tensions continued on Wednesday in the Deneia area, where farmers were reportedly obstructed by Turkish soldiers while attempting to cultivate their fields before both sides then later left the area. ...

The UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is investigating Monday’s incident in Deneia, where a Turkish army officer allegedly threatened a farmer, while he was tending his field in ...

The barbed wire placed in Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona, and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows is still there, despite government promises to remove it, United ...

The number of migrants stranded in the buffer zone has reached 86, as arrivals continue unabated to the Green Line without access to asylum proceedings, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said ...

There have been almost 1,400 applications for the north’s “migration amnesty” so far, the north’s ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu said on Thursday. Speaking to Gunes Web TV, he said ...

The deputy migration ministry and the justice ministry are working together to decide the next steps on the barbed wire fencing along the Green line, it emerged on Wednesday. Speaking ...

Residents living in the buffer zone have decried the 14km fence stretching across the Green Line, calling it useless, as Deputy Minister of Migration Nicholas Ioannides visited the site on ...

The government is being sued for migrant pushbacks over the dozens of asylum seekers still stranded in the buffer zone, while the deputy migration minister remained defiant on Wednesday saying ...

Cyprus is continuing pushbacks, it emerged on Thursday, even attempting to send migrants who arrived by sea into the buffer zone. The issue surfaced when Unficyp confirmed to the Cyprus ...

A total of 25 migrants have been forcibly removed from territories of the Republic and taken to the buffer zone against their will, while being denied access to asylum procedures, the ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Wednesday that statements by outgoing Unficyp Military Chief of Staff Col. Ben Ramsay regarding the situation in the buffer zone were “a bit exaggerated.” ...

We spoke to some of the asylum seekers who’ve been stranded in the buffer zone in Cyprus, some of them since mid-May.

The government on Friday stressed a political decision was taken to remove 14km of barbed wire stretching across the buffer zone, after it was criticised by Disy for ignoring UN ...

In his latest Unficyp report on Cyprus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday expressed his strong concerns over the ‘significant’ militarisation of the buffer zone which undermine Unficyp’s peacekeeping ...

United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) head Colin Stewart reiterated his concerns over the “militarisation” of the buffer zone on Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader ...

President Nikos Christodoulides hit out at UN Special Representative in Cyprus and Unficyp head Colin Stewart on Monday over statements the latter made about 28 migrants stranded in the buffer zone. ...

Unficyp chief and the UN Special Representative on Cyprus Colin Stewart said on Monday that he is concerned over increased militarisation of the buffer zone, seemingly caused by the stalled ...

The EU Commission is closely monitoring the situation of the ‘buffer zone migrants’ who continue to be stranded in the Green Line amid ongoing extreme weather warnings, it emerged on ...

Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus Colin Stewart on Tuesday welcomed members of the diplomatic community for a briefing on the UN’s activities and current state-of-play on ...

Claims and counterclaims over jurisdiction of Green Line, but why now? It has now been over a month that a group dubbed the ‘buffer zone migrants’ have been stranded within ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday insisted Cyprus’ handling of the migrants currently stuck in the buffer zone “followed the correct procedures”, instead pointing the finger towards the United Nations ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou hit out against the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) on Monday over the dozens of migrants stranded in the buffer zone for weeks. The migrants from countries ...

The pressure on the government to allow the 26 migrants, stranded in the buffer zone – some since May 15 – to access asylum procedures is increasing. After Unficyp, the UNHCR and the European ...