NICOSIA, Cyprus — Police in Cyprus have arrested an individual on suspicion of terror-related offenses and espionage, authorities say.
The individual appeared before a district court today, which ordered an eight-day detention pending inquiries. No further details would be issued, police say, citing national security.
Several Cypriot news outlets report that the suspect was a man of Azeri ethnic descent and had been arrested in the Zakaki suburb of the coastal city of Limassol. The suspect is thought to have had a British RAF military base in nearby Akrotiri, as well as Cyprus’s own Andreas Papandreou Air Base in the western region of Paphos, under surveillance since mid-April, Cyprus’s ANT1 news portal reports.
Cyprus lies very close to the Middle East and has in recent days been used as a transit point for people either leaving or going to the region amid a conflict between regional foes Israel and Iran. Terror-related offenses on the island are very rare.
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