Monday, July 20, 2009

Monday, July 20th - 20/7/74

35 years ago this morning at 5:45, Turkish troops invaded the island of Cyprus at the northern port city of Kyrenia. After moving south over the next few days, the current dividing line between the Republic of Cyprus and the north was created as a ceasefire line. Fast forward to today and this ceasefire line has gained permanence while becoming the epicenter to the destructive apartheid within Nicosia and Cyprus as a whole.

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