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Chipre, o posto avançado da Europa no Médio Oriente em conflito
No dia 1 de março, um drone Shahed fabricado no Irão, lançado do Líbano, atingiu a base aérea britânica de Akrotiri, em Chipre, aproximando inesperadamente a guerra do Médio Oriente da Europa. O presente relatório analisa as tensões que afetam a fronteira da União Europeia mais próxima do conflito.
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No dia 1 de março, um drone Shahed fabricado no Irão, lançado do Líbano, atingiu a base aérea britânica de Akrotiri, em Chipre, aproximando inesperadamente a guerra do Médio Oriente da Europa. O presente relatório analisa as tensões que afetam a fronteira da União Europeia mais próxima do conflito.
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00:02O ano passado, um drone atrapalou Arif Akrotiri, em Cyprus.
00:08Este é o aeroporto britânico Akrotiri no sul-oeste de Cyprus,
00:12atrapalou por um drone de Shahed na noite de 1 de março de março de março.
00:18Este ataque foi um ponto para trazer a guerra do Middle East à Europa.
00:24Quando Chypre está atacada, é a Europa que está atacada.
00:28Cipres está emergindo como uma fronteira estratégica
00:32em um conflito amplo e imprevisível.
00:36Caído entre poderes globais, tensões regionais
00:40e sua própria divisão de década,
00:41a isla está se tornando uma fronteira geopolítica crítica.
00:46O que significa viver na fronteira da Europa em um momento de guerra?
00:50É isso que veremos neste episódio do Euronews Investigates.
01:03Os dois bases britânicos em Cyprus são mais do que linhas de março de março de março.
01:07Os dois bases britânicos em Cyprus são mais do que linhas de março de março de março de março.
01:12E também de lugares onde os habitantes têm se tornado,
01:16para o constante rar de jetas,
01:19patroles de março de março de março de março de março,
01:20e a realidade de viver na borda da região de uma região volatilha.
01:24A posição de março de março de março é crucial.
01:27A cerca de 100 quilômetros de Syria,
01:30180 quilômetros de Lebanon
01:31e apenas mais de 200 quilômetros de Israel.
01:35Irã é 1,000 quilômetros de março.
01:38Eu estou entrando a área britânica Sovereine Base de Acrotiri.
01:42O que você tem que saber é que o território Sovereine Sovereine Territory
01:45é muito maior do que o perimetro da base,
01:49estando em 9 comunidades,
01:52a casa de cerca de 40,000 pessoas.
01:56O Acrotiri é o principal quilômetro,
01:58direto na base,
02:00e com uma forte conexão com ela.
02:02Um terceiro dos seus habitantes trabalham lá,
02:05explica o deputado de março.
02:07Este é o perifrago de março,
02:10e aqui é o Acrotiri.
02:13Aqui está cerca de 1,240 pessoas.
02:183 minutos depois da tarde,
02:20eu ouvi um tremendo,
02:22ouviu sirenas,
02:23tentaram conversar com a democracia.
02:28Eles nos ajudaram,
02:31e nos informaram que um homem
02:34caiu dentro das bases.
02:35Ninguém não conseguiu nos dê o apoio.
02:39O Acrotiri foi dado o próximo dia,
02:42e durou por 10 dias.
02:44Um milho de pessoas foram evacuadas.
02:47Eles foram, principalmente,
02:48levados por irmãs,
02:49com alguns em casa em um monastro e em hotéis.
03:01Não sei se estou pronto para responder,
03:06mas eu acredito,
03:08com as minhas condições que existem ao lado de nós,
03:12é muito difícil
03:17com as minhas condições de poder.
03:43Um mês depois, quando eu visitei, o ataque de drone pareceu quase esquecido.
03:48Não havia de guerra em frente e poucos palestros no céu.
03:53A guerra no Middle East e o ataque de drone se tornou algo que as pessoas não querem falar sobre.
04:09O que as pessoas chamam de incidentes isolados, revelou algumas dificuldades.
04:15Como o ministro de Curion explica, a República de Cyprus não tem autoridade de evacuar ou de tomar medidas de
04:21segurança civil em quase 60% da sua municipalidade, incluindo Acrotiri.
04:28As é parte das áreas soberanas de base administrativas por Brita.
04:33Eu acredito que o ataque mostrou que ninguém estava pronto, especialmente os soberanas de base.
04:40Não há planos de contínuos e planos de evacuação no SBA.
04:44O que é o sentimento geral sobre essas bases?
04:49Nós acredito que as coisas precisam começar a mudar,
04:54e realmente entenderam que as autoridades devem fazer o que.
05:01Especialmente com relação ao tema de defesa civil.
05:06Eu sou o único ministro de Cyprus que tem que lidar com duas legislativas e, basicamente, duas governadoras.
05:13Mas o ataque também expõe uma confusão profunda.
05:17Você diria que essas bases britânicas são uma fração?
05:21Após o incidente do mês passado, as pessoas estão começando a mudar sua mente.
05:29E sentindo que a base está perto de nós,
05:34e que se envolvam tanto na crise do Middle East,
05:38que está acontecendo novamente e novamente,
05:41está sendo uma fração para o país.
05:45As duas bases britânicas de Acrotiria e Echelia
05:49cobram cerca de 200 km²,
05:52cerca de 3% do território de Cyprus.
05:55Eles foram retornados quando Cyprus ganhou independência da Britânia, em 1960.
06:01O governo do Cipriado do Cipriado
06:04levantou as perguntas sobre o futuro das bases
06:06depois do ataque da derrota,
06:08com a questão permanente permanente
06:10de fricção política.
06:12Atriz, TV presenter e ativista Melanie Stelio
06:16é uma das figuras publicas que veem a base britânia
06:19como um legado para o colonialismo.
06:21Ela está falando antes das maiores parlamentares,
06:25onde ela é candidata para a direita
06:27da Akel Alliance.
06:29A mais de 56% da população de Cyprus não quer as bases aqui.
06:35Nós não enviamos nossos soldados lá,
06:38mas estamos dando a Cyprus, como um aeroporto permanente,
06:41para os Estados Unidos,
06:43e qualquer poder que nos possa usar,
06:46incluindo as bases, incluindo a RAF Acrotiria,
06:50nós nos permitimos,
06:52nós nos permitimos,
06:53nós nos dámos as nossas asfacilidades para bombar outros países.
06:56Então, como é isso exatamente criando a paz?
07:28Os ministros de Cypriotos de Defesa e Força
07:29é muito excesivo.
07:31Não é assim,
07:34foi criado um grande brilho
07:37fora do incidente.
07:40Ele foi aumentado
07:42como um evento de notíso,
07:44que não foi assim.
07:46Foi um incidente distante.
07:48E havia uma reação de todo o mundo,
07:51que a Cyprus está em uma zona de guerra.
07:54Como você pode ver,
07:56a Cyprus permanece
07:58um destino muito confortável,
08:00seguro e amigável.
08:02Há também vários países
08:04que foram assustados
08:07para visitar a Cyprus.
08:10Nós achamos que eles
08:12se reivindicam e injustamente.
08:15Estão se reivindicando
08:17ou estamos minimizando?
08:19A Cyprus está aberto e segura.
08:22Não importa se a guerra continua.
08:26U.S. e Israel's first strikes
08:28on Iran on Feb 28.
08:30It just says
08:31the tourism season in Cyprus
08:33was reopening after winter
08:34and hotel bookings
08:36fell by nearly 40% in March.
08:38Cyprus's Deputy Minister of Tourism
08:41says the impact will ultimately depend
08:43on how long the conflict lasts.
08:46If the conflict ends tomorrow,
08:49I believe that at the end of the day
08:50we're going to have
08:51a very similar performance
08:53to the performance
08:54of the year before.
08:55If the conflict ends
08:57after the year, for example,
09:00definitely we will observe
09:02a reduction in the total number
09:03of tourist arrivals,
09:04but that will take place
09:08for every single country
09:09in the Mediterranean zone,
09:10especially for those located
09:12in the eastern Mediterranean.
09:13Cyprus is not part of the conflict,
09:16but it's very close
09:17to an unpredictable war.
09:20I disagree with you.
09:22We are not so close.
09:23We are just belonging on the map.
09:27Definitely we are thousands
09:29of kilometers away
09:30from the conflict zone.
09:31We are not part of the problem.
09:33Cyprus was always acting
09:35as a pillar of peace and stability
09:39in the very of Eastern Mediterranean.
09:42But is the Middle East a war
09:44altering the balance on the island?
09:47Divided since Turkey's 1974 invasion,
09:51triggered by a Greek-backed coup
09:52pushing for union with Greece,
09:55the island remains split
09:56between the internationally recognized
09:58EU member Republic of Cyprus
10:00in the south and the self-declared
10:02Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,
10:05recognized only by Turkey.
10:07A 180-kilometer-long UN buffer zone,
10:10the Green Line separates the two.
10:15Nicosia is considered
10:16the last divided capital in the world,
10:19with the Ledra Street checkpoint
10:21cutting through its center.
10:26I have just crossed into a country
10:28that officially doesn't exist.
10:32Northern Cyprus is politically dependent
10:35on Turkey, a key player
10:37in the Middle East crisis.
10:38After EU countries deployed military assets
10:41in the south,
10:42Ankara responded by sending F-16 fighter jets
10:46to the north, sparking controversy.
10:49I raised this issue with the self-declared
10:52Turkish Cypriot administration.
10:54Under the gaze of Ataturk,
10:56the father of modern Turkey,
10:58I sat down with the hardline nationalist
11:00foreign minister.
11:01Even his title doesn't officially exist,
11:04and it felt like stepping into a 3D history book.
11:08Why did you receive these several F-16?
11:11To show to the world and to the Greek Cypriots
11:14that Turkish Cypriots enjoy the support
11:16and security of the motherland, Turkey.
11:18We are not going to allow the balance,
11:22the military balance established on the island
11:24since 1974 to be changed.
11:27If the Greek Cypriots do anything
11:29to upset this military balance on the island,
11:32then it is our right and Turkey's right
11:35to make sure that this balance is restored.
11:39Around the 40,000 Turkish troops
11:41are stationed in northern Cyprus.
11:43The Greek Cypriots side wants them withdrawn,
11:47but the Turkish Cypriots side
11:48insists they guarantee protection
11:50until a peace settlement is reached.
11:52Former negotiations have been stalled since 2017.
11:58So is this conflict widening the gap
12:02between the north and the south?
12:04Obviously, the Turkish Cypriot people,
12:06they are becoming more aware
12:09that there is no well-meaning policies
12:12of the Greek Cypriots that respect
12:15Turkish Cypriot rights,
12:17Turkish Cypriot entity,
12:19Turkish Cypriot sovereignty.
12:23Nationalists still hold a majority
12:25in the so-called parliament,
12:26but their views are losing consensus,
12:29and a left-wing opposition leader won
12:31the October 2025 presidential election.
12:35Even so, analysts say the current regional crisis
12:39could make reunification less likely anytime soon.
12:46The most obvious outcome would be a deepening
12:49of the separation because people will become entrenched
12:52in their own sides.
12:54So it's unlikely that people would, you know,
12:59leap to the other side as a result of the conflict
13:02unless there was something pushing them there.
13:04So unless the UN steps in and says,
13:07okay, you know, helping to solve the Cyprus conflict
13:10could help us solve other regional issues,
13:13but I have a feeling that the United Nations
13:16is rather distracted at the moment
13:17and probably is not going to be interested enough
13:21to take up that opportunity.
13:24Besides the military build-up and geopolitics,
13:27the island is also shaped by communities
13:29that fled conflicts.
13:31Many Israelis and Lebanese have relocated here
13:34in search of peace and stability.
13:36In Limassol, I met an Israeli-Jewish restaurant owner.
13:40He arrived in 2022 fleeing violence
13:43one year before the Hamas terrorist attacks,
13:46a traumatic event that prompted many more Israelis
13:49to seek refuge here.
13:51He complained about graffiti
13:53that appeared near his business.
13:56It was a terrorist attack next to us,
13:58so we fled to Cyprus.
14:00It's close to home and it feels like Israel.
14:04Do you want to go back?
14:05No, no.
14:07Why?
14:08There is no stress here.
14:10Everything here is siga-siga.
14:12What is it, siga-siga?
14:13Slowly, slowly.
14:15Okay.
14:16So, what do you think about what's happening
14:18in the Middle East at the moment?
14:21We are witnesses to history.
14:23The Jewish nation is saving the world
14:26from the terror regime in Iran.
14:29And with God's help, we will finish them
14:32and the world will be a better place.
14:34What about the international laws?
14:36The Israeli attacked both Lebanon and Iran.
14:41We are eliminating this threat one and for all.
14:45The same thing we are doing with Iran
14:47and the same thing we did with Hamas.
14:49It was a threat.
14:50They invaded Israel in October 7, 2023.
14:53Does this justify killing civilians?
14:58We didn't start this war.
15:00We never start...
15:01But did this justify to kill civilians?
15:02We never start the war.
15:04We're just finishing it.
15:08Like this restaurant owner,
15:10a great majority of Israeli Jews,
15:1378%, continue to support the month-long war
15:16on Iran and Lebanon, according to recent polls.
15:20In Israel, only a minority are opposed
15:23to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war.
15:30Avi Shai, a retired professor of political science,
15:33is among them.
15:34He lived and taught in Cyprus for 10 years
15:37and now visits as a tourist.
15:41My position is against the government
15:44and against the war.
15:45The children in Gaza,
15:47having been through what they've been
15:50in the last two years,
15:51I can't see them growing up without hatred.
15:55I see the children growing up in Israel
15:58with their fears,
16:00with the prospect of serving in wars
16:03and wars and wars for the rest of their lives.
16:07I was sixth when Israel was founded
16:12and my sixth, when I went to first year in school,
16:16we were in shelters and in bombs.
16:19And I'm now 85 and I'm in shelters and bombs.
16:23How do you feel about the fact
16:25that your position is still a minority in Israel?
16:30The minority is not always a minority
16:33and there is a hope for change.
16:39At the time of editing my report in mid-April,
16:42more than 2,000 people had been killed in Lebanon.
16:47What are numbers to the wider public
16:49can be family or friends to the Lebanese diaspora.
16:53In Cyprus, many of the 20,000 people of Lebanese descent
16:57watch the news with horror and worry.
16:59Some are still trying to put their lives back together
17:03and keep the pain at bay.
17:06I grew up in Lebanon besides the war.
17:09I had a great childhood
17:11and the beauty of Lebanon is inside me.
17:17It's my country, it's my people
17:19and wherever I go, it stays with me.
17:25The Lebanese people are resilient
17:27but now if you ask any Lebanese,
17:30they don't want to be resilient anymore.
17:32They are tired, we are all tired.
17:42Over 3 million people have been displaced in Iran
17:45and another 1 million within Lebanon since the war began.
17:49Humanitarian agencies warn of a potential refugee crisis.
17:53In Cyprus, the authorities say they remain vigilant,
17:56despite the country not having seen large waves of refugees so far.
18:01The Cypriot Migration Minister believes
18:04the EU's new Pact on Migration and Asylum
18:06should help avoid a repeat of the 2015 crisis
18:10when the Syrian civil war caused the largest refugee movement in Europe
18:15since World War II.
18:17Things have changed since the last refugee crisis in 2015.
18:21we've got more robust legislation
18:25and we believe that we're more ready now to deal with the new refugee crisis.
18:32We are getting ready for the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration Asylum in June.
18:36It's also been pretty controversial.
18:38So are you going to support more people coming towards Cyprus or less people?
18:43So the new legislation gives us an opportunity to perform stricter controls at the borders,
18:52expedite our asylum procedures and improve our return procedures as well.
19:00So it's a general, comprehensive, cohesive legal framework that will enable us to improve our procedures.
19:09If you are going to have hundreds of thousands of people coming from Lebanon or Iran, what's going to happen?
19:16We have to examine on an individualized basis each application, of course,
19:21in order to ascertain whether these individuals are really in danger.
19:28Everyday life in Cyprus goes on, as it almost always has, relaxed.
19:33The Middle East war watched from afar, as if not looking to directly, might keep it at bay.
19:41I left Cyprus feeling the island is already being shaped by the war, more than people are aware of, and
19:48the authorities are prepared to admit.
19:52And thank you for allowing us.
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