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Article: Turkish Cypriots Visit Southern Cyprus
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 8, 1997
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Nearly 400 Turkish Cypriots in Turkish-controlled northern part of
the island today came to the southern government-controlled village
of Kokkina to pay homage to those killed there 30 years ago.
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash also visited the area by
helicopter, while other Turkish Cypriots traveled by bus.
Kokkina, in the northwest of the island, is a Turkish Cypriot
enclave, some three miles west of the Turkish occupied areas.
Greek Cypriots living in the area welcomed their Turkish Cypriot
compatriots and Cypriot police officers accompanied the 18 small
buses that took them to the region.
Waldemar Rokoszewski, a spokesman for U.N. Peace-Keeping Force in
Cyprus, said today that the ...