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Am 1. März traf eine vom Libanon aus gestartete iranische Shahed-Drohne den britischen Luftwaffenstützpunkt Akrotiri auf Zypern und brachte den Krieg im Nahen Osten unerwartet näher an Europa heran.
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00:02Lass Nacht, ein Drone auf den Akrotiri in Cyprus
00:07Das ist die britische Akrotiri Airbase in Südwest Cyprus
00:12von einem Schahed-Dronen von einem Schahed-Dronen auf dem Nacht 1.
00:18Dieser Stich war ein Turnier-Punkt,
00:20um die Mittel-East-Ware zu Europas durchsteu.
00:24Als Chypre ist attackiert, ist Europa die attackiert.
00:28Cyprus ist nun eine strategische Front-Line
00:32in einem Widener und Unpredictable Konflikt.
00:36Caught zwischen globalen powers, regionalen Tensions
00:39und der eigenen Decathlon-Division,
00:42die Island ist eine kritische, geopolitische Falk-Line.
00:46Was bedeutet es,
00:47zu leben auf Europa's Frontier in einer Zeit der Krieg?
00:50Das ist das, was wir sehen in dieser Episode
00:52von Euronews Investigates.
01:03Die zwei britische Basen in Cyprus sind mehr als auf eine map.
01:07Die Soverein britische Basen sind nicht nur
01:10enttäusch von protected wilden Landschafts,
01:13sondern auch von villages,
01:14wo die Wohnen sind,
01:15und die Kontrollen sind,
01:18die Kontrollen sind,
01:18die Kontrollen sind,
01:19die Kontrollen sind,
01:20und die Realität,
01:21auf dem Weg zu leben,
01:22auf einem Volatil-Region.
01:24Die Islande ist wichtig,
01:27rund 100 km von Syrien,
01:30180 km von Lebanon,
01:32und nur über 200 km von Israel.
01:35Iran ist 1,000 km entfernt.
01:39Ich bin in die britische Basen von Akrotiri.
01:42Was muss man wissen,
01:43ist, dass das britische Basen von Soverein
01:45ist viel größer als das perimeter
01:47von der Basen selbst,
01:49über 9 Gemeinden,
01:52bis zu rund 40,000 Menschen.
01:56Akrotiri ist die Hauptstadt-Village
01:58neben der Basen,
02:00und mit einer starken Verbindung zu es.
02:02Das ist die berühmte,
02:09und hier ist die Abenteuerung.
02:13und hier ist die Abenteuerung.
02:13Hier sind die Abenteuerung.
02:15Hier sind die Abenteuerung.
02:15Hier sind ungefähr 1,240 Menschen.
02:183 Minuten nach der Abenteuerung.
02:20Ich hörte ein fliegel,
02:22ich hörte Sirene.
02:23Ich versuchte mit den Menschen,
02:26die Demokratie zu sprechen.
02:28Ich versuchte uns,
02:29die Abenteuerung der Basen
02:32und wir haben uns,
02:32dass ein Mann,
02:34die Abenteuerung durch die Basen
02:35zerforscht.
02:35Keiner kann uns nicht
02:37die Abenteuerung.
02:39Die Abenteuerung wurde
02:41den nächsten Tag geplant.
02:42Und sie dauerte 10 Tage.
02:44Über 1,000 Menschen
02:45wurden evakuen.
02:47Sie wurden vor allem
02:48von Relativen,
02:49mit einigen
02:50in einem nahe
02:51von einem Monastery
02:52und in Hotels.
02:54Die Abenteuerung
02:55Sie fühlen sich sicher?
03:01Ich weiß nicht,
03:02ob ich bereit bin,
03:05zu antworten.
03:06Aber ich glaube,
03:08dass die Abenteuerung
03:10mit den Abenteuerungen
03:10sind,
03:12dass es sich schwer
03:14zu antworten.
03:18Aber ich glaube,
03:19dass die Abenteuerung
03:19die Abenteuerung
03:22sind,
03:22es ist sehr schwierig
03:23ist nicht ein NATO-Member
03:24und relies
03:25an Allies
03:26für ihre Defense.
03:27Die UK
03:28hat die US
03:29zu nutzen
03:30ihre Basis
03:31in der Land
03:31für Defensive
03:32Operations.
03:33After die Drone
03:34attack,
03:35France,
03:35Italy,
03:36Spain und
03:36Netherlands
03:37deployed naval
03:38assets,
03:39Greece
03:39also
03:40senden
03:40military support.
03:43A month later,
03:45when I visited,
03:45the Drone attack
03:46seemed
03:47almost forgotten.
03:48There were no warships
03:50in sight
03:50and fewer warplanes
03:52in the sky.
03:53The war in the
03:54Middle East
03:54and the Drone attack
03:55became something
03:56people don't want
03:57to talk about.
04:09What officials call
04:11an isolated incident
04:12revealed some
04:14deficiencies.
04:15As the mayor of
04:16Kurien explains,
04:17the Republic of Cyprus
04:18has no authority
04:19to evacuate
04:20or take
04:21any civil
04:22safety measures
04:22in almost
04:2360%
04:24of his municipality
04:25including Akrotiri
04:27as it's part
04:29of the sovereign base
04:30areas administered
04:31by Britain.
04:32I believe
04:33what the attack
04:34showed
04:35was that nobody
04:36was ready,
04:37especially
04:38the sovereign bases.
04:40There are no
04:41contingency plans
04:42and evacuation plans
04:44in the SBA.
04:44in the
04:45What is the general
04:46feeling about this
04:48basis?
04:49We believe that
04:50things should start
04:52to change
04:54and actually
04:55get a clear
04:56sense
04:57on whose
04:58authorities
04:59to do what,
05:00especially
05:01with regards
05:02to the civil
05:03defence issue.
05:06I'm the only mayor
05:07in Cyprus
05:08that has to deal
05:09with two different
05:09legislations
05:10and basically
05:12two different
05:12governments.
05:13But the attack
05:14also exposed
05:15a deeper controversy.
05:17Would you say
05:18these British bases
05:19are a threat?
05:20after the incident
05:22last month,
05:25people are starting
05:26to change
05:27their mind
05:28and feeling
05:29that having
05:31a base
05:32right next
05:33to us
05:33and getting
05:35that gets involved
05:36so much
05:37in the Middle East
05:38crisis that's
05:39happening over
05:40and over again,
05:41it's becoming
05:42a threat
05:43to the country.
05:45The two British bases
05:47of Akrotirie
05:48and Ekelia
05:49cover around
05:50200 square kilometres,
05:52about 3%
05:53of Cyprus' territory.
05:55They were retained
05:56when Cyprus
05:57gained independence
05:58from Britain
05:59in 1960.
06:02The right-wing
06:02Cypriot government
06:04has raised questions
06:05about the future
06:06of the bases
06:06after the drone strike
06:08with the issue
06:09remaining a long-standing
06:10source of
06:11political friction.
06:12actress,
06:13TV presenter
06:14and activist
06:15Melanie Stelio
06:16is among public figures
06:17who see
06:18the British bases
06:19as a legacy
06:20of colonialism.
06:21She is speaking
06:22out ahead
06:23of the May
06:23parliamentary elections
06:25where she is a candidate
06:26for the left-wing
06:27Akel Alliance.
06:29Over 56%
06:31of the population
06:32of Cyprus
06:33don't want the bases
06:34to be here anymore.
06:35We're not sending
06:36our soldiers there
06:37but we're giving Cyprus
06:39as a permanent
06:40aircraft carrier
06:41for the United States
06:43of America
06:43and any other power
06:45that wants to use us
06:46including the bases
06:48including RAF
06:49our criteria.
06:50We're enabling them.
06:52We're giving them
06:53our facilities
06:54to bomb other countries.
06:56So how is that
06:58exactly creating peace?
07:00The Cypriot ministers
07:02of defence
07:02and foreign affairs
07:03declined my request
07:05to comment
07:05on the future of the bases
07:07and on key
07:08geopolitical issues.
07:09the focus instead
07:10appears to be
07:11on reassurance
07:12with the economy
07:14especially tourism
07:15as a priority.
07:17This key sector
07:19which accounts
07:19for around 12%
07:21of GDP
07:21is very vulnerable
07:23to external shocks
07:24like conflict.
07:25Industry leaders
07:27say the response
07:27to the drone attack
07:28was excessive.
07:31and justly so
07:33has been created
07:35a big noise
07:37out of the incident.
07:40It has been augmented
07:42as a newsworthy event
07:44which was not so.
07:46It was one remote incident
07:48and there was
07:49an overreaction
07:50from all over the world
07:51that Cyprus
07:52is in a war zone
07:54which as you can see
07:56yourself
07:56Cyprus remains
07:58a very peaceful
08:00safe
08:00and friendly destination.
08:02There are also
08:03several countries
08:04that have issued
08:06heightened warnings
08:08for visiting Cyprus.
08:10We found them
08:13overreacting
08:14and unjust.
08:15Are they overreacting
08:16or are we minimizing?
08:19Cyprus is open
08:21and safe
08:22no matter if
08:23the war continues.
08:26US and Israeli
08:28first strikes on Iran
08:29on February 28th
08:30hit just as
08:31the tourism season
08:32in Cyprus
08:33was reopening
08:33after winter
08:34and hotel bookings
08:36fell by nearly
08:3740% in March.
08:38Cyprus's Deputy Minister
08:40of Tourism
08:41says the impact
08:42will ultimately
08:43depend on how long
08:44the conflict lasts.
08:46If the conflict
08:47ends tomorrow
08:48I believe
08:50that at the end
08:50of the day
08:50we're going to have
08:51a very similar
08:53performance
08:53to the performance
08:54of the year before.
08:55If the conflict
08:56ends after the year
08:58for example
08:59definitely
09:00we will observe
09:02a reduction
09:02in the total number
09:03of tourist arrivals
09:04but that
09:06will take place
09:08for every single
09:08country in the Mediterranean
09:09zone especially
09:11for those located
09:12in the eastern Mediterranean.
09:13Cyprus is not part
09:15of 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
09:25on the map.
09:27Definitely
09:28we are thousands
09:29of kilometres
09:29away from the conflict
09:30zone.
09:30we are not part
09:32of the problem.
09:33Cyprus
09:33was always
09:34acting
09:35as a pillar
09:37of peace
09:37and stability
09:39in the area
09:40of eastern Mediterranean.
09:42But is the Middle East
09:44war
09:44altering the balance
09:46on the island?
09:47Divided
09:48since Turkey's
09:491974 invasion
09:50triggered by
09:51a Greek-backed coup
09:52pushing for union
09:53with Greece,
09:55the island remains
09:55split between
09:56the internationally
09:57recognised
09:58EU-member Republic
09:59of Cyprus
10:00in the south
10:01and the self-declared
10:02Turkish Republic
10:03of Northern Cyprus
10:05recognised only
10:06by Turkey.
10:07A 180-kilometre-long
10:09UN-buffer zone
10:10the Green Line
10:11separates the two.
10:15Nicosia is considered
10:16the last divided
10:18capital in the world
10:19with the Ledra Street
10:20checkpoint
10:21cutting through
10:22its centre.
10:25I have just crossed
10:27into a country
10:28that officially
10:29doesn't exist.
10:32Northern Cyprus
10:33is politically dependent
10:35on Turkey
10:36a key player
10:37in the Middle East
10:38crisis.
10:38After EU countries
10:40deployed military
10:41assets in the south
10:42Ankara responded
10:43by sending F-16
10:45fighter jets
10:46to the north
10:46sparking controversy.
10:48I raised this issue
10:50with the self-declared
10:52Turkish Cypriot administration.
10:54Under the gaze
10:55of Ataturk
10:56the father
10:56of modern Turkey
10:57I sat down
10:58with the hardline
10:59nationalist
11:00foreign minister
11:01even his title
11:02doesn't officially exist
11:03and it felt
11:04like stepping
11:05into a 3D
11:06history book.
11:08Why did you receive
11:09these several F-16?
11:11To show to the world
11:12and to the Greek Cypriots
11:14that Turkish Cypriots
11:15enjoy the support
11:16and security
11:17of the motherland
11:18Turkey.
11:18We are not going
11:19to allow
11:20the balance
11:22the military balance
11:23established
11:24on the island
11:24since 1974
11:25to be changed.
11:27If the Greek Cypriots
11:28do anything
11:29to upset this
11:30military balance
11:31on the island
11:32then it is our right
11:34and Turkey's right
11:35to make sure
11:36that this balance
11:37is restored.
11:39Around the 40,000
11:41Turkish troops
11:41are stationed
11:42in northern Cyprus.
11:44The Greek Cypriots
11:45side wants them
11:46withdrawn
11:46but the Turkish Cypriots
11:48side insists
11:49they guarantee protection
11:50until a peace settlement
11:51is reached.
11:52Former negotiations
11:54have been stalled
11:55since 2017.
11:58So is this conflict
12:01widening the gap
12:02between the north
12:03and the south?
12:04Obviously.
12:05The Turkish Cypriot people
12:06are becoming more aware
12:09that there is no
12:10well-meaning policies
12:12of the Greek Cypriots
12:13that respect
12:15Turkish Cypriot rights
12:17Turkish Cypriot entity
12:18Turkish Cypriot sovereignty
12:23nationalists
12:24nationalists still hold
12:25a majority
12:25in the so-called parliament
12:26but their views
12:28are losing consensus
12:29and a left-wing
12:30opposition leader
12:31won the October
12:322025
12:33presidential election.
12:35Even so,
12:36analysts
12:37say the current
12:38regional crisis
12:39could make reunification
12:40less likely
12:41anytime soon.
12:45the most obvious
12:47outcome would be
12:48a deepening
12:49of the separation
12:50because people
12:51will become entrenched
12:52in their own sides.
12:54So it's unlikely
12:55that people would
12:59leap to the other side
13:01as a result of the conflict
13:02unless there was something
13:03pushing them there.
13:03So unless
13:05the UN steps in
13:06and says okay
13:07you know
13:08helping to solve
13:09the Cyprus conflict
13:10could help us
13:11solve other regional issues
13:13but
13:14I have a feeling
13:15that the United Nations
13:16is rather distracted
13:17at the moment
13:17and probably
13:18is not going to be
13:19interested enough
13:21to take up
13:22that opportunity.
13:24Besides the military
13:25build-up
13:26and geopolitics
13:27the island is also
13:28shaped by communities
13:29that fled conflicts.
13:30Many Israelis
13:32and Lebanese
13:33have relocated here
13:34in search of peace
13:35and stability.
13:36In Limassol
13:37I met
13:38an Israeli-Jewish
13:39restaurant owner.
13:40He arrived in 2022
13:42fleeing violence
13:43one year before
13:44the Hamas terrorist attacks
13:45a traumatic event
13:47that prompted
13:48many more Israelis
13:49to seek refuge here.
13:51He complained about
13:52graffiti that appeared
13:53near his business.
13:55It was a terrorist attack
13:57next to us
13:58so we fled to Cyprus.
14:00it's close to home
14:01and it's
14:02feel like Israel.
14:03Do you want
14:04to go back?
14:05No.
14:06No.
14:07Why?
14:08There is no stress
14:09here.
14:10Everything here
14:10is siga-siga.
14:12What is it?
14:13Siga-siga?
14:13Slowly, slowly.
14:15Okay.
14:16So what do you think
14:17about what's happening
14:18in the Middle East
14:20at the moment?
14:21We are witnesses
14:21to history.
14:23The Jewish nation
14:25is saving the world
14:26from the terror regime
14:28in Iran
14:29and with God help
14:30we will finish them
14:32and the world
14:32will be a better place.
14:34What about the
14:35international laws?
14:36The Israeli attacked
14:38both Lebanon
14:39and Iran.
14:41We are eliminating
14:42this threat one
14:43and for all.
14:45The same thing
14:46we are doing with Iran
14:47and the same thing
14:48we did with Hamas.
14:49It was a threat.
14:50that they invaded Israel
14:51in October 7, 2023.
14:54Does this justify
14:55killing civilians?
14:57We didn't start this war.
14:59We never start...
15:01But did this justify...
15:02We never start the war.
15:04We're just finishing it.
15:08Like this restaurant owner,
15:10a great majority
15:11of Israeli Jews,
15:1278%,
15:14continue to support
15:15the month-long war
15:16on Iran and Lebanon
15:17according to recent polls.
15:20In Israel,
15:22only a minority
15:22are opposed
15:23to Prime Minister
15:24Benjamin Netanyahu
15:25and the war.
15:30Avi Shai,
15:31a retired professor
15:32of political science,
15:33is among them.
15:34He lived and taught
15:35in Cyprus
15:36for 10 years
15:37and now visits
15:38as a tourist.
15:41My position
15:42is against the government
15:44and against the war.
15:46The children in Gaza,
15:48having been through
15:49what they've been
15:50in the last two years,
15:51I can't see them
15:52growing up
15:53without hatred.
15:54I see the children
15:56growing up
15:57in Israel
15:58with their fears,
16:00with the prospect
16:00of serving
16:02in wars
16:03and wars
16:04and wars
16:05for the rest
16:05of their lives.
16:07I was six
16:08when Israel
16:10was founded
16:12and my
16:13six.
16:14When I went
16:14to first year
16:16in school,
16:16we were in shelters
16:18and in bombs
16:19and I'm now 85
16:21and I'm in shelters
16:22and bombs.
16:23How do you feel
16:24about the fact
16:25that your opposition
16:27is still
16:28a minority
16:29in Israel?
16:30The minority
16:31is not always
16:32a minority
16:33and there is
16:34a hope for change.
16:39at the time of editing
16:40my report
16:41in mid-April,
16:42more than 2,000 people
16:44had been killed
16:44in Lebanon.
16:47What are numbers
16:48to the wider public
16:49can be family or friends
16:50to the Lebanese diaspora.
16:53In Cyprus,
16:54many of the 20,000 people
16:56of Lebanese descent
16:57watch the news
16:58with horror
16:59and worry.
17:00Some are still trying
17:01to put their lives
17:02back together
17:03and keep the pain
17:04at bay.
17:06I grew up in Lebanon.
17:07Besides the war,
17:08I had a great childhood
17:11and the beauty
17:13of Lebanon
17:14is inside me.
17:17It's my country,
17:19it's my people
17:19and wherever I go
17:23it stays with me.
17:25The Lebanese people
17:26are resilient
17:27but now,
17:29if you ask anybody
17:30they don't want
17:30to be resilient
17:31anymore.
17:32They are tired.
17:33We are all tired.
17:42Over 3 million people
17:44have been displaced
17:45in Iran
17:45and another 1 million
17:47within Lebanon
17:47since the war began.
17:49Humanitarian agencies
17:51warn of a potential
17:52refugee crisis.
17:53In Cyprus,
17:54the authorities say
17:55they remain vigilant,
17:56despite the country
17:58not having seen
17:58large waves
17:59of refugees so far.
18:01The Cypriot
18:02Migration Minister
18:03believes the EU's
18:04new Pact on Migration
18:05and Asylum
18:06should help avoid
18:08a repeat
18:08of the 2015 crisis
18:10when the Syrian civil war
18:12caused the largest
18:13refugee movement
18:14in Europe
18:15since World War II.
18:17Things have changed
18:18since the last
18:19refugee crisis
18:20in 2015.
18:21We've got more
18:23robust legislation
18:25and we believe
18:26that we're more
18:28ready now
18:29to deal with
18:30the new
18:31refugee crisis.
18:32We are getting ready
18:33for the implementation
18:34of the EU Pact on
18:35Migration Asylum
18:35in June.
18:36It's also been pretty
18:37controversial.
18:38So are you going to
18:40support more people
18:41coming towards Cyprus
18:42or less people?
18:43So the new legislation
18:45gives us an opportunity
18:47to perform stricter
18:50controls at the borders,
18:52expedite our asylum procedures
18:54and improve our return
18:58procedures as well.
19:00So it's a general,
19:03comprehensive, cohesive
19:05legal framework
19:06that will enable us
19:08to improve our procedures.
19:09If you are going to have
19:10hundreds of thousands
19:11of people coming from
19:12Lebanon or Iran,
19:14what's going to happen?
19:16We have to examine
19:17on an individualised
19:19basis each application
19:21of course in order to
19:22ascertain whether
19:24these individuals
19:25are really in danger.
19:28Everyday life in Cyprus
19:30goes on as it almost
19:31always has, relaxed.
19:33The Middle East war
19:35watched from afar,
19:36as if not looking to
19:38directly might keep it
19:39at bay.
19:41I left Cyprus feeling
19:43the island is already
19:44being shaped by the war,
19:46more than people are
19:47aware of,
19:48and the authorities
19:49are prepared to admit.
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