ΝΙCOSIA - The leader of a Cypriot village that isn't slated to be compensated under a government plan to develop a remote promontory threatened to dig up nests of protected turtles unless it is.
Yiangos Tsivikos, leader of the Ineia community in the Akamas region in the west of the Mediterranean
A row has erupted in Cyprus after a community leader threatened to dig up the nests of protected turtles because his village is missing out on land development compensation.
Cyprus police said Thursday they had arrested one man a day after farmers set hay bales ablaze outside the presidential palace to protest against high input prices and a milk glut.