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 …

The 1974 Cypriot coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Cypriot National Guard and sponsored by the Greek military junta.On 15 July 1974 the coup plotters removed the sitting President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, from office and installed pro-Enosis nationalist Nikos Sampson. [3] [4] [5] The Sampson regime was described as a …

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.

2024年7月20日 · Cyprus’ cerulean summer skies turned black after Turkish warplanes bombarded the area from Kyrenia to Nicosia, killing hundreds of civilians before their ground troops completed the massacre. The pretext for the Turkish invasion was the protection of Turkish Cypriots, who made up about 18 percent of the island’s population, an argument that ...

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...

The 1974 coup and the two-part Turkish invasion that followed it are probably the two most important events in the post-independence history of Cyprus. Traumatic as they are, they serve as the cause of a radical reorientation of the Greek-Cypriot political life and the gradual creation of a

Tension has been running high in the Mediterranean island since a military coup five days ago in which President Archbishop Makarios, a Greek Cypriot, was deposed. The coup led to fears among the...

2006年5月28日 · In this extract from his book, Cyprus 1974 – The Greek coup and the Turkish invasion, Makarios Droushiotis shows how the coup leaders were caught totally unprepared by the Turkish invasion of...

In July 1974 the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, was deposed in a coup orchestrated by Greece's then military regime. It was the culmination of years of inter-communal strife on the...

2024 is the 50th anniversary of the Turkish military intervention on the island of Cyprus in July 1974. We will be highlighting some of the main events on social media, and this page provides the background and resources to better understand the conflict.