Moving into a long weekend, as July 20 is a public holiday, Peace and Freedom Day. Cheerfully named as what it celebrates is the landing of Turkish troops to protect Turkish Cypriots from Enosis - the Greek Cypriot plan for political union with Greece. Extremely long, though interesting, story. Excellent summary in multi-party, bi-cameral report to UK parliament, should any reader of this blog wish to read it: https://web.itu.edu.tr/~altilar/tobi/Kibris/TheCyprusQuestion.html.
And in further political vein, the following via one of the expats. Have not yet verified the source, but difficult to imagine that extremely formal polite nastiness as anything other than the genuine diplomatic article. Clearly the South’s tourism industry is hurting - as whose isn’t - and there is some pressure on their government to stop business bleeding north over the border. The antipathy does come from deep and unpleasant historic wells.
No particular panic from our point of view. If accurate it means we exit via Ercan in the North, which has some logistical advantages anyway.
And in further political vein, the following via one of the expats. Have not yet verified the source, but difficult to imagine that extremely formal polite nastiness as anything other than the genuine diplomatic article. Clearly the South’s tourism industry is hurting - as whose isn’t - and there is some pressure on their government to stop business bleeding north over the border. The antipathy does come from deep and unpleasant historic wells.
No particular panic from our point of view. If accurate it means we exit via Ercan in the North, which has some logistical advantages anyway.