Eastern Mediterranean University
Travel (Flights) and Local Transportation
You can book a flight from your original destination to Ercan Airport in North Cyprus, which is only 30 minutes away from Salamis Bay Hotel. Our travel agency provides transfers from Ercan to the hotel. Alternatively, you can book a flight to Larnaca International Airport in South (Greek) Cyprus. Our travel agency will also organize transfers from Larnaca Airport to Famagusta, but it will be more expensive due to handling difficulties and the distance.
Our travel agency can offer you the best available connections and prices for flights to either North or South Cyprus. Please fill in the form below and submit it if you need our assistance. We will contact you within the next business day and inform you about possible flight routes and airline companies. If you wish, we can issue and send you your ticket as well.
Flight information request form
Legal Status of TRNC
TRNC is a legal state with all its proper institutions established in the predominantly Turkish Cypriot Northern Cyprus. Roughly half of the population here is the people who fled predominantly Greek South Cyprus during 60s and 70s. Back in 1974 Turkish forces entered North Cyprus according to the tri-partite guarantee agreement between Turkey-Greece-UK to protect the Republic of Cyprus from being annexed to Greece and Turkish Cypriots from annihilation by the Greek Cypriot military forces actively supported by Greece. Since then, Turkey's role here has been to support TRNC in order for it to self-sustain. It's the Greek Cypriot South Cyprus who is the usurper of illegal power. Republic of Cyprus is legally a power-sharing state cooperatively established between Turkish and Greek populations of Cyprus but since 1974 hijacked by the Greek Cypriots. You might have heard that in 2004 there was a referendum following a UN-brokered agreement to rejoin both sides in a single state; Turkish Cypriots voted to accept but Greek Cypriots rejected it. You'are probably not familiar with the history of Middle East and definitely of Cyprus. The island of Cyprus has been inhabited by local people but, due to its strategic location, occupied and managed by foreign forces all through its history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cyprus).
Do note that the Island of Cyprus is only 75 km away from Anatolia, the mainland Turkey, but ~750 km from the mainland Greece. Of late, the Ottomans, the ancestors of the Turkish Cypriots, conquered Cyprus back in 1571 in order to get rid of the pirates of the Eastern Mediterranean (Venetian/Genovese) settled there; ottomans owned the island ever since till the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus. Ottomans agreed to leave management (not the title) of Cyprus on lease to UK late 19th century. Just before the end of the 19th century, UK annexed Cyprus but Ottomans couldn't resist due to internal problems and weakness of the decaying empire. To this date, being the descendents of the Ottomans, Turkish Cypriots are the legal owners of the Cyprus land. It's my conjecture that the Cyprus problem essentially is part and parcel to the holy Christian war waged against Islam in the medieval ages which still continues to this day due to the presence of the modern day Crusaders mentality.