Cypriots link arms to protest planned Russian nuclear plant
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Protesters are urging ethnically-split Cyprus' government and breakaway Turkish Cypriot authorities to step up their protests against a nuclear power plant Russia is building on Turkey's Mediterranean coastline.
Around 250 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot protesters on Thursday linked arms across a 250-foot (75-meter) stretch of U.N. controlled buffer zone splitting the capital Nicosia to protest against the plant they say could pose a grave threat to Cyprus and the region because it'll be built in a seismic region.
Greek Cypriot Charalambos Theopemptou said the Cyprus government should get the European Union to take up the issue with Turkey which aims to join the bloc.
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Sener Elcil said many Turkish Cypriots know the risks and oppose the plant, but their leaders must end their silence and speak out.