Turkish troopers threaten farmer in buffer zone (pictures)

Because the group head of Deneia village Christakis Panagiotou advised philenews, on Tuesday morning three armed Turks approached a Greek Cypriot farmer and threatened him to desert his crops or be killed.

One other incident had preceded final week when the occupation troops turned a blind eye to a settler farmer who moved his animals to graze into fields belonging to a Greek Cypriot and consequently the latter’s carob timber have been destroyed. The settler claimed that his “authorities had given him the sector and that he has papers from the military.”

As Christakis Panagiotou stated, final week the United Nations intervened and despatched the settler away however as we speak, UNFICYP selected to maintain a distance from the world. As famous, the Turkish military’s provocations within the buffer zone have lately elevated and each the Overseas Ministry and the Nationwide Guard have been knowledgeable.