Geoff Hazel - North and South
Running time
55 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
North is Turkish and the south is Greek. The area in between can be as narrow as 11 metres and as wide as 11 kilometres. And basically it’s where the troops stopped when the ceasefire was called. Technically, they're still fighting and both sides have got troops along the edge.
The 11 metres is in the centre of Nicosia, what used to be the capital... Well it is the capital city for both sides. And then you've got a road that runs through there, and buildings on one side of Greek, Greek Cypriot buildings on the other side of Turkish Cypriot. And they used to poke bayonets at each other on long poles at different times.
