sound of unseen assault rifles being cocked carries across the United Nations-controlled buffer zone in ethnically cleaved Cyprus, ratcheting up concerns that the embers of the island’s stagnant conflict could again be rekindled. The rifles are just the tip of a string of recent escalations by Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots; rivals separated along the 180-kilometer (120-mile) buffer zone that snakes through the capital’s medieval centre.
AP explains: Fifty years after war cleaved Cyprus along ethnic lines
sound of unseen assault rifles being cocked carries across the United Nations-controlled buffer zone in ethnically cleaved Cyprus, ratcheting up concerns that the embers of the island’s stagnant conflict could again be rekindled. The rifles are just the tip of a string of recent escalations by Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots; rivals separated along the 180-kilometer (120-mile) buffer zone that snakes through the capital’s medieval centre.