The gates of Deryneia and Aplikio, for which the President of the Republic Nikos Anastasiadis and the occupying leader Mustafa Akinci agreed to open, open their gates at 12 noon.
The agreement for the opening of the eighth and ninth roadblocks came from their meeting on October 26 at Nicosia Airport.
At the same time, from the day the decision was made to open the two crossing points, two peaceful protests took place at the Deryneia roadblock.
The first was organized by the family of the hero Solomos Solomos, who was sacrificed a few meters below the roadblock, while the second last Friday by ELAM.
As for the Turkish military outpost, it was difficult because they did not move it. At the last meeting, the President did not clarify whether the outpost was indeed moved.
When did the roadblocks open?
To date, there have been seven roadblocks.
Specifically in 2003, Rauf Denktash decided to allow Turkish Cypriots to move freely to the Free Zones under the pretext that this would create a "climate of trust".
From the morning of Wednesday, April 23, 2003, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots cross the "green line" from a total of five points.
Those of Agios Dometios, Ledra Palace, Strovilia, Pergamon and Astromeritis.
At that time, the newly elected government of Tassos Papadopoulos attributed in an attempt to impress the new measures announced by the regime of Rauf Denktash.
The decision to open the roadblocks came a few months before the Annan referendum, as a confidence-building measure, with people literally flooding the roadblocks to see their occupied land after 29 years.
At the roadblocks in the first days there was a real mess with people waiting even for days and nights to cross into the occupied areas.
Ledra-Limnitis
On Thursday, April 3, 2008, after an agreement between the then President of the Republic Dimitris Christofias and the occupation leader Mehmet Ali Talat, the roadblock on Ledra Street was opened, while in August 2009 the last roadblock to date was that of Limnitis.
It was reopened after a Christofias-Talat agreement. After they repaired the road to the roadblock which was old, it was opened to traffic in 2010.