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Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus and Cyprus dispute
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August
- 24 August – The Cyprus Papers, consisting of more than 1,400 confidential approved applications relating to the government Cyprus Investment Programme, were published by Al Jazeera, which says they have been sold to criminals and fugitives from 70 countries who, by purchasing a Cypriot passport, become European Union citizens. The government claims that it has clamped down on the loopholes and that each accepted application was in conformity with the standards at the time. The country said it will revoke citizenship for individuals found guilty of serious crimes.
- 26 August – The Turkish Ministry of National Defense revealed that a Barbaros-class frigate of the Turkish Navy and the TCG Burgazada had conducted joint military exercises with the USS Winston S. Churchill of the U.S. Navy in the Eastern Mediterranean, hours after Greece conducted similar exercises with the country, France, and Italy in the disputed Aegean region.
- 28 August – Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell threatened Turkey with sanctions unless it and Greece reconcile their differences over maritime borders and gas drilling rights near the country.
- 31 August – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for a "coordinated European response" to recent Turkish aggression towards the country and Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean, saying "Europe needs to leave the age of innocence behind and shape its own destiny."
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