Asylum seekers in Cyprus rely on charities as far-right pushes to stop arrivals

Cyprus has already paused the examination of asylum applications from Syrian citizens for 14 months.

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00:00I'm suffering with health issues, because of that I'm not able to have a normal life

00:27and I'm just a single mom. God forbid, God forbid, if anything is happening to me, who's

00:32going to take care of my son? He's underage.

00:44Smugglers or people along the way will give them bad information, including the idea that

00:47if you have a child in Cyprus or in the European Union, that child is automatically granted

00:53EU either residency or citizenship, and this is not the case.

01:08The number of asylum seekers in Cyprus still remains at about 7% in relation to the total

01:15number of the population. We have a huge problem here in Cyprus.

01:23We strongly believe that we should combat illegal migration, because we think that member

01:39states should decide under international law who is going to cross the borders and not

01:44smuggling groups and traffickers.