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The site contains mainly bones of the Late Pleistocene endemic Cyprus Dwarf Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus minor), which are represented by the remains of over 370 individuals [2] a much lesser amount of the Cyprus dwarf elephant (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes) representing the remains of at least 3 individuals, and artifacts (c. 1,000 flints including thumbnail scrapers of the Mesolithic type), which ...
Another case is the book war crimes written by Andreas Parashos claiming at least 180 reported missings are fake and forged by Cyprus state, and 40 of them are already buried to the graves before 74, he also admitted Parashos ? killing 100 Turkish Cypriot civilians [22] A new case was brought in 2009, following comments by Turkish actor Atilla ...
On 20 July 1974, the men of the villages were arrested by EOKA-B and sent to Limassol.Following this, according to testimonials cited by Sevgül Uludağ, EOKA-B men from the neighboring village of Peristeronopigi came, got drunk in the camp they established in the village coffeehouse, fired shots in the air, and subsequently raped many women and young girls; this continued until 14 August 1974.
Cyprus is now the most talked-about economy in the world -- an odd position to be in for a country that few could find on a map until this week. Cyprus' $13 billion bailout, combined with roughly ...
A toppled 4,000-year-old monolith was found at a “sacred site” on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Experts believe the new discovery at the Erimi archeological site offers the oldest sacred ...
Many mass graves of both Turkish and Greek Cypriots were found in Cyprus after Turkey invaded the island in 1974. [55] [56] On 3 August, 14 Greek Cypriot civilians were executed and buried in a mass grave. [57] In Eptakomi 12 Greek Cypriots were found in a mass grave executed with their hands tied. [58]
For many in Cyprus, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has drawn parallels to Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, and Cyprus, an EU member state, has followed its peers in adopting sanctions on Moscow.
Turkey, in the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, advanced to occupy about 38% of the island in the north of the Republic of Cyprus and thus transforming the Turkish Cypriot objective of Taksim (partition of the island of Cyprus into Turkish and Greek portions, a concept declared as early as 1957 by Dr. Fazil Küçük) into reality.