Four days ago a petition was created by Vanessa Neocleous Kyriacou from Nicosia, Cyprus. The aim of the petition is to remove the Turkish flag from Pentadaktylos mountains.

As stated in the petition’s website , the reasons behind this campaign are the following. First of all, it is against human rights and illegal to occupy someone else’s country. Furthermore, is provocative to have a flag reminding Greek-Cypriots everyday the devastating events of the invasion in 1974 which divided Cyprus, and left many people killed, missing and refugees.

Today, the petition was signed by 4,301 people and needs 699 more to get to the next stage.

It will be delivered to the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, the European Parliament, President of the United States and the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.