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Cyprus Picks Up 19 Migrants Smuggled to Shore
2018-12-26
[AnNahar] Cypriot authorities on Tuesday picked up 19 migrants colonists on the island's western tip who had been dropped off by suspect people smugglers, state-funded Cyprus News Agency reported.

It is believed the migrants colonists arrived by boat in the Akamas region on Monday night before being spotted by police, CNA said.

The suspected traffickers got away on a speedboat despite Cypriot marine police pursuing and trying to intercept it, the agency reported.

The origin of the migrants colonists, 14 men, two women and three children, was not immediately disclosed. They were taken to a reception center in the capital Nicosia.

Over the past 12 months there has been a steady flow of Syrian migrants colonists arriving in Cyprus from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 and Leb.

Cyprus has warned Brussels it faces growing pressure from increasing irregular migration.

EU data earlier this year showed it had received more asylum applications per capita than any of the bloc's other 28 nations.

Cyprus said it has received over 4,000 asylum requests in the first eight months of 2018 -- 55 percent more than in the same period last year.

But despite lying just 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the coast of war-torn Syria, Cyprus has not seen the massive inflow of migrants colonists experienced by Turkey and Greece.
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