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Research ship Nautical Geo is in plot 1 of the Cyprus EEZ after it departed yesterday from the Larnaca port.
Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued his aggressive rhetoric by stating that Turkey will continue to take steps such as the opening of Varosha in Cyprus in violation of United Nations resolutions.
October 1st, Independence Day for the Republic of Cyprus, was celebrated with a traditional military parade today. It has been 61 years since the republic was established, after Cyprus finally won full sovereignty from Britain.
In 1974, the Turkish Army invaded Cyprus over fears that the Greek junta would try to annex the island. Any excuse for Turkish forces to remain in Cyprus quickly evaporated, however, when the Greek junta collapsed and Greece reverted to democracy. Still, Turkish forces remained on the island in pursuit of a long campaign of ethnic and sectarian cleansing. Today, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the proxy state that Turkey established, controls one-third of the island.
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