Kurds in Cyprus face deportation to Syria

The 27-day protest and hunger strike by the Kurdish community in Cyprus ended abruptly Friday morning as Cypriot police and security officers raided their makeshift camp, arriving in armoured military vehicles.  The protestors were arrested, put into buses and transferred to detention centres.

250 Kurdish asylum seekers from Syria, including 65 children, had been living in bright orange and green tents pitched outside the Interior Ministry in Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, for almost four weeks to try and obtain refugee rights and bring attention to the condition of Kurds in Syria. Read more