The Republic of Cyprus, whose population is approximately 1.2 million, is struggling with a significant mass migration crisis that is gradually leading to the demographic replacement of the island’s native population. Since at least 2016, illegal Muslim migrants have flooded Cyprus via the north, which has been occupied illegally by the Turkish military since 1974.
Cyprus now hosts the most refugees per capita within the European Union. The Republic receives the highest number of asylum seekers relative to its population anywhere in the EU.
Some 50,000 people reside illegally in the country, according to a January news report. The migrant camps in Cyprus are already over capacity.
Geadis Geadi, spokesman for the opposition Elam Party (National People’s Front), said that “after years of mudslinging against us, everyone now understands the scope of the problem and that Cyprus is in danger.”
The impact of mass Muslim migration, with its demographic and crime-related consequences, is now observable throughout public life.
Nearly 50% of the pupils in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, have a migrant background, according to the statistics of the Schools Board of Nicosia. A ‘migrant background’ is defined by the board to mean that both parents are foreign-born and they are neither from Greece nor the Cypriot diaspora, as the Cyprus Mail reported:
The situation at Nicosia’s state primary schools is even more alarming. “In 22 state primary schools in Nicosia, Cypriot pupils are in the minority,” the Cyprus Mail reported in May of 2023.
At three schools in Nicosia there are no Cypriot children while at 17 other schools, Cypriots comprise under 10% of pupils.
Nicosia, which is 35% occupied by Turkey, is also Europe’s last divided capital.
The occupied northern part of Cyprus, however, has been a victim of Turkey’s policies aiming to erase its Greek and Christian identity since 1974. These policies include the influx of illegal settlers from Turkey, the illegal deployment of around 40,000 Turkish soldiers, the systematic annihilation of the Greek cultural and religious heritage, the unlawful seizures of lands and properties from their rightful owners, and the illegal alteration of the original Greek names of geographical locations (such as towns and villages) into Turkish, among others.
The ongoing Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus makes the island country even more vulnerable in the face of the ongoing mass migration crisis.
The native Greek population of the Republic of Cyprus is currently facing demographic replacement by Muslim migrants. The statistics regarding students at schools, the declining birth rates of the natives, the unending influx of illegal migrants, the increased crime rates, as well as the skyrocketing asylum applications are proof that the future of this Greek island is at serious risk. The Republic of Cyprus needs concrete support from the West to preserve its indigenous demography and millennia-long Greek civilization..
