A 24-year-old woman who appealed to Cyprus for help to leave Gaza is not a Cypriot citizen, despite being of Cypriot descent through her great-grandmother, Cyprus’ representative to Palestine told the Cyprus Mail on Friday.
“ Her great-grandmother was born in Cyprus ,” said Marios Stavrou, head of the Republic’s representative office in Ramallah.
Stavrou explained that the woman’s great-grandmother did not pass on Turkish Cypriot citizenship to her son,
