Pupils across Cyprus are holding anti-occupation demonstrations today, marking the 41st anniversary of the unilateral declaration of the self-proclaimed ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’.
In Nicosia, pupils gathered at the municipal wholesale market in Kaimakli at 11:00 am before marching towards the Mia Milia checkpoint. Similar demonstrations are being held in other cities across the island.
Political parties, organisations, and occupied municipalities and communities have issued statements condemning the 1983 declaration.
Only Turkey, which still maintains troops in the breakaway north, recognises the ‘state’ established there.
UN-brokered talks throughout the years to reunite the island under a bi-zonal, bi-communal federal system have repeatedly failed.
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