Thanks for your comment. It's a little confusing to me as it is referred to as both a border and a checkpoint in different media releases issued by the UN for example. Not to mention the terms border and checkpoint aren't mutually exclusive, you can have a border checkpoint as well. I suppose at the end of the day the semantics may depend on ones opinion on the situation in Cyprus?

Yes 100%, at the very least functionally it is operating like two different countries even if it's not recognised as such by most of the international community. It does seem a bit complex to me though because at least from what I read it was stated that most Cypriots want it be unified and feel there just needs to be a solution that's agreeable to both sides. However I was just a tourist who was only there for 2 weeks; so I feel like I cannot and should not have a fully formed opinion based on such a brief visit. I would love to hear from Cypriots as to their perspectives.

The north part of Cyprus, is occupied by Turkey since 1974 MILITARY OCCUPATION The majority of all those are still our stolen lands and properties PLEASE We expect from you people to RESPECT that

@@user-mm2yy4ve2n you wanted to occupy Cyprus on 15 July 1974 by declaring it a hellenic republic as the first step to enosis and began to kill all the Turks on the island, then Turkey came as a guarantor and libarated the Turks of the island from a full genocide. There is nothing to be respected about Greeks. You are not different from the Serbians in the Bosnian war.