not very poor but this location is poor that join with turkey and heart of Cyprus people are mostly poor
You can get a ferry from several Turkish coasts to Girne (Kyrenia):) Tasucu is one of the closest part to Cyprus and they have ferry's often. Or Alanya during the Summer time. You wont have a problem going to Cyprus from Turkey as Turkish people go there more often then before, since the gambling in Turkey became illegal.
Turkey considers Israel an enemy and is allied with Iran and Libya.
The five countries where Greek is spoken are Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Turkey, and Italy. Greek is the official language in Greece and Cyprus, while it is a minority language in Albania, Turkey, and Italy.
In 1974 the northern part of the island was illegally invaded by Turkey and colonised by people from the Turkish mainland; it subsequently declared itself the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus in 1983, which is not recognised by the international community due to its illegality. Therefore Cyprus as recognised by all foreign governments, aside from Turkey, Cyprus is run by a Greek Cypriot government and is therefore Greek.
In Turkey, the majority of the population are Muslims.
Yes and No. Officially, the Republic of Cyprus is recognized by all countries except Turkey as having de jure control of the entire island (except for the UK bases of Akotiri and Dhelika). However, in 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus and created the puppet state called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) which controls the northern third of the island of Cyprus. All countries other than Turkey view this as an unlawful occupation of sovereign Cypriot territory.
You can come to Cyprus from Larnaca airport. You should have known as a European citizen that the north part of the country is an oocupied area by Turkey since 1974.The killed many innocent people just like in the Armenia in the past years. There is no safety in the north part, all is under control of the army.
Cyprus has been a divided nation since 1974, when the Turkish Army invaded during July and August. This happened due to a coup by extreme right-wing military officers, who overthrew the democratically-elected Government of President Makarios and imposed a military dictatorship, whose aim was to expel or exterminate the island's ethnic Turk population. Turkey then stepped in to protect the Turkish people.
reference to the international laws regarding islands , Cyprus belong to the Syrian coasts ( which are now occupied by Turkey ) . also there is strong genetic relation between Phoenicians ( west Syria ) and the original Cyprian people .
The majority of Cyprus is made of Greek Cypriots and a minority is made of Turkish Cypriots. There have also been an influx of forced migration from the Turkish mainland that has doubled the number of "Turkish Cypriots" even though these people have no Cypriot heritage and have been used in an attempt to change the population dynamics in Cyprus.
3.9534721 is the level of people in cyprus