00:00So, I'm here in Paphos, Cyprus with Lidia, Lidia Dimitriou, and tell me a little bit
00:08about this flag here, this panel in the background.
00:11Okay, this is the flag of our refugee club.
00:15We come from Kyrenia, Kyrenia district.
00:18Kyrenia was the first town that the Turks occupied in the invasion of 1974.
00:26And you lived in northern Cyprus when the invasion happened.
00:28You saw the invasion yourself.
00:30There is no such a thing as northern Cyprus.
00:33Cyprus is only one country.
00:36I come from the northern part of Cyprus, yes.
00:40And I was there when the invasion took place.
00:42As a matter of fact, it took place only a mile away from my house.
00:47We witnessed everything.
00:49And this is why we stand here for the last 10 years, we have been standing here in order
00:55to protest about this injustice that the whole world has to hear about.
01:03A lot of things going on with Russia and Ukraine, but no one is paying attention to our problem,
01:09the Cyprus problem, which is not a problem of division between Muslims and Christians
01:15as people want to show it.
01:19It's a problem of invasion and occupation.
01:2336% of our country has been under the Turkish occupation for 50 years now.
01:30That's a long time.
01:31There must be a solution.
01:33And if you are asking me what kind of a solution, as a refugee, I expect to see is for the Turkish
01:40troops to get out of Cyprus and let the Turkish Cypriots and the Greek Cypriots live harmoniously
01:47together.
01:48We did in the past, we can do it now.
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