"Everything that needs to be done through diplomatic channels, rest assured that it is being done", the President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulidis stated
Turkish-Cypriots
Greek Cypriots perceive the road construction as a move with a military purpose - UN peacekeepers are tasked with monitoring the buffer zone to prevent clashes
Greek Foreign Ministry condemns the attacks - "Attempting to create achievements within the dead zone is a flagrant violation of the status quo"
Never Forget!
Cyprus has been divided into a Turkish Cypriot north and a Greek Cypriot south since an intervention by Turkey in 1974
The soul of the Cypriot struggle for Enosis (Union with Greece)
"There has been a collective decades-long failure to uphold the rule of law in an adequate manner befitting the post-1945 legal order"
Years later the then commander of the Turkish army's special forces in the occupied territories, Hasan Kudaktsi, confessed ordering the assassination "with a nod"
Turkey Uncensored: The murders of the two Greek-Cypriots by the Turkish invaders
"Only on the basis of two separate states can there be an agreement in Cyprus" he stated