Following Turkey's creation of an air base in occupied Lefkoniko for unmanned aircraft (drones), now the occupation authorities are back with the fencing of an area in Karpasia for the construction of a naval base or the installation of surveillance systems, the Ecological Movement - Citizens' Co-operation points out in a written statement.
"According to Turkish Cypriot reports, this base will "help" the occupation authorities to send warships more quickly to escort floating drilling vessels in their illegal investigations in the Eastern Mediterranean, while the maintenance, repair and refuelling of ships will be accelerated," the Ecologists' Movement explains.
"According to the reports, this is an area that had been designated as a "national park". This is yet another provocative and inflammatory action, which in combination with the ongoing violations of the Cyprus EEZ, the "picnic" of the occupation leader and Erdogan in Famagusta and the provocative opening of the enclosed city of Famagusta, compose a very ominous picture of the intentions of the occupying power in Cyprus," it notes.
"The conversion of an area of natural beauty, proposed for inclusion in the European Habitats Network Natura 2000, into a military base is an act that cannot be accepted by the ecological movement of Cyprus", he concludes.
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