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Turkish ship fired a warning shot in Cyprus Coastguard

Nicosia: The Turkish coastal ship fired a warning shot on Friday on a Cyprus police boat patrolling the documented migrants near the control line on the North Island, Cpriot media reported.
The incident occurred in the middle of the high tension on the island as President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan prepares to visit the Turkish Breakaway North Cyprus next week to mark the 1974 annual invasion warning , westward the uncredivated weapons that separated the territory held by the government from Breakaway North, the Cyprus news agency reported.
Cypriot police spokesman Christos Andreou told CNA that the coast guard cutter was in the Cypriot Territorial waters at 3:30 a.m.
when the incident occurred.
He said the boat was on a regular patrol to examine irregular migrants because the area was a decrease point for migrants from Turkey.
“The crew of three members of the patrol boat saw the intention of Turkish coast guards trying to avoid any incident and towards a fishing shelter at Kato Pyrgos,” he said.
“At a distance of four marine miles from the shelter, the sea police ship received a warning shot from Turkish coast guards.” Then, it becomes a short distance from the beach, Turkish coast guards go to the occupied region “(from North Cyprus), he said.
The tension has run high in front of Erdogan’s visit to the island next week, when he will make what Greece’s Cyprus as The provocative tour of the varosha beach resort was abandoned, which was emptied from a Greek citizen by the Turkish invasion.
Police Cyprus has increased land patrol and sea since the government declares the “emergency” in May after the entry of Syrian migrants who have flooded the reception center.
Nicosia said Most migrants entered the government-controlled area through un-zone of patrol buffers from North Breakaway.
Cyprus, the easternmost European Union member, has had the proportion of the highest application block per capita for four years of consultation.
Nicosia has asked EU to help prevent it irregular migrant flow from Turkey before they stick Ai Cyprus, equivalent to the arrangement for Greece agreed in 2016.
“Despite the great efforts by Cyprus authorities to manage disproportionate migration pressure, we are still in very state.
A difficult situation, “Nicos Nouris’s Interior Minister told reporters in June.
He said the island division with a ceasefire line of 180 kilometers long” creating unique conditions for irregular migration development “.
He said that the proportion of applicants and beneficiaries of protection International in Cyprus in accordance with four percent of the country’s population.
“Unfortunately, during the first months of 2021, increasing irregular arrivals, especially Syrian citizens, both by sea or soil through the green line, showing a worrying trend,” he said.
“The continuation of a large number of migration currents from Turkey is the main challenge for Cyprus.”

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