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Interactive Map


Click directly on an event to read the description and sources. In some locations, there are several incidents embedded at one location—scroll down completely to read them all. You can turn on or off different incident categories, surveillance capabilities, and legal delineations at sea by ticking the boxes in the legend on the right-hand side. 

This map is incomplete, as many cases of border violence go unreported. According to the head of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at University of Nicosia, 1-2 pushbacks are carried out every day at the time of publishing this map (September 2024). At the same time, information on the incidents we included in the interactive map was often scarce or conflicting, yet we chose to include every incident for which we found details, believing that each one, regardless of the amount of available information, was important to share. As such, this map is not intended as legal evidence, and the locations depicted on the map are for visualisation purposes only. For details on how we processed and visually interpreted the information, please refer to our methodology and, for the access to entire embedded data, to our raw data section.  


EVENTS (INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE)
We have included a variety of events with differing amounts of documentation. 
Each incident is color-graded based on the accuracy of its location. 
The accuracy of the location was determined based on the amount of information provided for the corresponding event, according to the guidelines determined in our methodology.

TYPES OF EVENTS
Events tracked on this map include instances of dead or missing person(s), as well as pushbacks, pushbacks with chain refoulement, and attempted pushbacks. Read more on pushbacks here. 
The incidents have been categorized into different event types, based on different forms of violence; some fall into more than one category.
Complete descriptions of the events can be found by clicking on the individual incident.

SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT
This map also documents various types of surveillance equipment used by the Republic of Cyprus. When possible, we have indicated the range of detectability with this equipment, according to information from the Cyprus authorities. The sources are found in the methodology.
The technologies’ actual capabilities depend on dynamic factors such as weather.
The map shows capabilities. However, no causality is intended in individual cases. Some of the technologies were implemented recently, and their capacities may not apply to earlier incidents.
Because mobile surveillance equipment cannot be placed in any static form on the map, mobile surveillance units and drones are placed symbolically on the lower right-hand section of the map. The image reflects the quantity of equipment owned by the Republic of Cyprus.

LEGAL DELINEATIONS
Territorial waters is part of the international law of the seas and includes sovereignty over 12 nautical miles from a state’s coast. 
The Cypriot SAR (search and rescue) zone shows the maritime area in which Cyprus is responsible for the rescue of people in distress.  



This map was created for desktop use. For mobile use, we recommend opening the map externally by pressing full screen. It may take some time for the map to load completely.

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