Saturday, February 3/2018

Local media pleased to report that Turkish troops have fired at fleeing Syrian refugees at the Turkish-Syrian border. The story is disputed, and may or may not be true. The interesting thing is that it makes it into the limited world news provided in the English language paper and the ten minute English news broadcast daily on Cypriot television. With so much competing world news, one can only conclude that it falls into the category of bad-things-the-Turks-have-done-that-everyone-should-hear-about.