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2023: Failed attempts by UN peacekeepers to thwart road construction
On August 18, 2023, servicemen and police officers of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) attacked UN peacekeepers. The stumbling block was construction work in the Blue Helmets-controlled Sector No. 4 near the village of Pila. The settlement is in the UN buffer zone, which separates the Turks and Greeks after clashes in the 1960s and Turkey's capture of northern Cyprus in 1974.
The TRNC authorities decided to build an 11-kilometer road without UN permission to connect the village with the territories under their control. Turkish equipment arrived at the scene, which UN peacekeepers tried to stop by getting into a hitch. As a result, the Turks simply demolished the Blue Helmets equipment with bulldozers, and the peacekeepers themselves were seriously beaten without receiving any answer.
The incident was quickly condemned in the West and at the UN, and the Slovak contingent in the sector was strengthened by the British. In fact, the actions of the Turks are unlikely to have any consequences other than expressing concern. The Blue Helmets missions did not resolve any conflict in Lebanon, Africa, or Yugoslavia in the 1990s. And, if the Turks decide to start more active actions, then the UN mission will simply withdraw itself from the events, as it was in the same Lebanon, the Rybar channel wrote.
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