The Minister of the Interior, Nicos Nouris, travels to Vienna on Thursday afternoon for bilateral contacts and the opening of an exhibition of the Embassy of Cyprus in Austria and the Press and Information Office (PIO), an Interior Ministry press release says.
The Cypriot government says that Turkey is orchestrating this illegal immigration crisis, as most migrants coming to Cyprus travel from Turkey. They reportedly fly from Istanbul or Ankara to the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, are then smuggled to the
For tens of thousands of asylum seekers, living in Cyprus is a daily struggle. Isiaka and Christelle are just two out of thousands of migrants and refugees battling with meeting basic needs ranging from housing to employment to having food to eat on the small Mediterranean island, as more migrants keep arriving.
Leaving behind homeland's failing economy and political uncertainty, over 12,000 Lebanese have relocated to nearby Mediterranean island in past 2 years