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The sea journey from the Lebanese coast to Cyprus - the closest EU member-state - takes just 10 hours in the motorboats used by traffickers. The distance from Larnaca is about 112 nautical miles. Lebanon is the country with the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world, hosting some 2 million Syrians and 200,000 Palestinians.

The first Turkish violations of Greek airspace took place in May 1964 and were related to the tension over Cyprus at the time. They were followed by a hiatus of a couple of years and resumed from September to November of 1967, coming in the aftermath of a failed summit meeting in the Greek border region of Evros between the Greek military government and the Turkish political leadership.

Dozens of Greek Cypriot families in Limassol are up in arms over a land dispute, accusing the government of lying to them as they face lawsuits from a Turkish Cypriot property owner.