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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Greek Cypriots in Turkey-held north 'visitors in own village'

Theodoros was one of only hundreds of Greek Cypriots who stayed put as the \"enclaved\" in their villages when Turkey seized northern Cyprus in 1974 and have faced isolation ever since. \"We live like visitors in our own village,\" sighed Theodoros, a resident of Rizokarpaso -- known as Dipkarpaz in Turkish -- in the Karpas peninsula on the island's \"panhandle\" eastern tip. The rundown church ...

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