Questions raised over order not to mine Kyrenia coast before invasion

The 70th Engineer Battalion was ordered not to lay mines at a key landing point on the northern coast of Cyprus shortly before the Turkish invasion in 1974, according to an account published by Phileleftheros on Friday.

The report, by Vassos Vasiliou, focuses on the battalion’s movements in the hours before the Turkish landing at Pente Mili and the subsequent fighting around Kyrenia, Lapithos and Karavas....