Turkish Cypriots arrest Greeks in north Cyprus
”Three Greeks were arrested today, caught in the act of filming with a camera certain restricted military areas. The investigation is continuing,” a Turkish Cypriot police spokesman told Reuters.
The arrests were for the first serious offences since the Turkish Cypriot administration, recognised only by Ankara, opened checkpoints to the north in April and allowed hundreds of thousands of Cypriots to visit sites previously barred to them.
That move came after the collapse in March of U.N.-sponsored talks aimed at reuniting the island’s ethnic Turks and Greeks, who have lived separately since Turkey invaded in 1974 after a short-lived Greek Cypriot coup backed by Athens.
Turkey garrisons some 30,000 soldiers in the northern third of the island.