‘Terrorism’ on one side, ‘fascism’ on the other – property arrest saga rolls on

FEW things in the recent history of the Cyprus problem have been able to generate such explosive language and visceral reactions from the leaders of the island’s two sides as the arrests made in relation to the development of Greek Cypriot owned property in the north.

When, earlier in the year, it was the Republic of Cyprus arresting European Union and third country nationals suspected of developing or aiding and abetting the development of Greek Cypriot-owned land in the north, an incensed...