A patrol vessel located the 33-metre (100-foot) boat 18 nautical miles off the resort town of Protaras.
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...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire..., an eastern Mediterranean route often used by people smugglers.
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Nicosia has warned Brussels it has come under pressure from increased migration flows, ranking it top in first-time asylum seekers in proportion to its population.
Cyprus is the first Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union member to permanently host the European Asylum Support Office to help cope with the spike in arrivals.
But the small EU member, located 100 miles (160 kilometres) from Syria, has not seen the same massive inflow of
Syrian nationals accounted for 33 percent of first-time asylum seekers in Cyprus in the second quarter of 2019, EU figures show.
According to available government data, the number of arrivals and applicants for asylum from January to June last year almost reached 7,000.