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Following the breakdown of peace talks, Turkish forces enlarged their original beachhead in August 1974 resulting in the capture of approximately 36% of the island. The ceasefire line from August 1974 became the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus and is commonly referred to as the Green Line.
In 1974, Turkey invaded the northern portion of the Republic of Cyprus in response to a military coup taking place on the island, in attempt to annex the island to Greece. Turkey claimed that this was an intervention in accordance to Treaty of Guarantee.
Greek Cypriot prisoners were taken to camps in Turkey in 1974. Credit: Public domain. The brutal invasion was dubbed by Turkey a “peaceful intervention,” aimed at restoring constitutional order in Cyprus, which had been disturbed by the coup against Makarios just five days earlier on July 15th.
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 was a pivotal event in the island's history, rooted in long-standing ethnic tensions and geopolitical rivalries.
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched on July 20, 1974, was the Turkish military response against a coup which had been staged by the Cypriot National Guard against president Makarios III with the intention of annexing the island to Greece.
The coup on Cyprus in July 1974 which overthrew Archbishop Makarios immediately sparked tensions on the island. Turkish-Cypriots feared the new Greek-backed leader, Nicos Sampson, would seek...
On 19 August 1974, 11 days after President Richard Nixon’s resignation in Washington, a mob of hundreds of angry Greek Cypriots formed outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, the capital of...
Yom Kippur war and the first oil embargo (October 1973), as well as by two consecutive military advances on Cyprus, on 20-22 July and 14-16 1974. These events, although regionally located in the eastern Mediterranean the Near/Middle East, had global repercussions.
The failure to defend Cyprus led to the fall of the Greek dictatorship in July 1974. A second Turkish invasion followed weeks later in August. EYP director-general Themistoklis Demiris on ...
Cyprus, an island steeped in history and conflict, has long been the stage for violence as Turkish Cypriots faced persecution and genocidal attacks for decades. The year 1974 saw the dawn of a new era with Turkiye’s Peace Operation, a decisive moment that carved the island into two separate states and ended decades of unrest.