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Despite the opposition of the Turkish Cypriot political leadership to the war, by 1918 approximately 11% of the recruits were members of the Turkish Cypriot community. On 18 October, special legislation banned emigration for Cypriot males of conscription age in order to halt the mass migration of Cypriots to the USA.
The confrontation prompted widespread intercommunal fighting in December 1963, after which the Akritas Plan was put into motion and Turkish Cypriot participation in the central government ceased on December 23, 1963, when all Cypriot Turks from the lowest civil servants to ministers, including the Turkish Vice-President Dr. Fazıl Küçük were ...
The Cyprus National Guard High Command had planned a massive island-wide assault on the Turkish-Cypriot enclaves of Cyprus, in the event of a Turkish invasion, so as to quickly eliminate these enclaves as potential footholds for a bridgehead. The initial plan (drawn up by Georgios Grivas in 1964) was given the codename "Aphrodite One" and ...
Turkish invasion of Cyprus (2 C, 31 P) U. United Nations operations in Cyprus (1 C, 5 P) W. Wars involving Cyprus (5 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Military history of ...
According to the 1960 census, the inhabitants of the three villages were entirely Turkish Cypriots. [16] The total population of Maratha and Santalaris was 207. [17] By 1973, the total population of the villages had risen to 270, with 124 in Maratha, 100 in Santalaris and 46 in Aloda.
Turkish forces remained after a cease-fire, resulting in the partition of the island. [31] The intercommunal violence, the coup, and the subsequent invasion led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Cypriots. [32] [33] The de facto state of Northern Cyprus was proclaimed in 1975 under the name of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus.
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The Turkish invasion of Cyprus [26] [a] began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and in response to a Greek junta-sponsored Cypriot coup d'état five days earlier, it led to the Turkish capture and occupation of the northern part of the island.