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  • Occupation of Cyprus Underscores Hypocrisy of Gaza Outrage

    08/14/2014 7:02:47 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 9 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 14, 2014 | Victor Davis Hanson
    LIMASSOL, Cyprus -- Cyprus is a beautiful island. But it has never recovered from the Turkish invasion of 1974. Turkish troops still control nearly 40 percent of the island -- the most fertile and formerly the richest portion. Some 200,000 Greek refugees never returned home after being expelled from their homes and farms in Northern Cyprus. The capital of Nicosia remains divided. A 112-mile demilitarized "green line" runs right through the city across the entire island. Thousands of settlers from Anatolia were shipped in by the Turkish government to occupy former Greek villages and to change Cypriot demography --...