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TOPSHOT - Sappers Sam Proctor (R), Aaron Joyce and Corporal Anna Rowell from the British Army's 71 Engineer Regiment, members of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), climb up on a rooftop of an abandoned building while patroling along the buffer zone, which separates the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus and the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)recognized only by Ankarain the divided capital Nicosia on February 21, 2024. EU member Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish forces occupied the island's northern third in response to a military coup sponsored by the junta then in power in Greece. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)