Forever Divided?

John Theodore and Jonathan Theodore

Chapter 2 in Cyprus and the Financial Crisis, 2015, pp 19-37 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract From 1960, monumental hurdles had confronted both the Cypriot leadership and the social and ethnical communities of the newly independent island. These festering and unresolved tensions came to a head in July 1974, when Turkey invoked its rights under the Treaty of Guarantee to take military action and invade the island on behalf of the Turkish community. A possibility that had overshadowed Cypriot affairs and the inter-communal talks since the island’s independence, it was finally prompted by a coup d’etat against the government of Archbishop Makarios by the Greek military Junta: staged by the Cypriot National Guard and in conjunction with EOKA. The coup successfully deposed the Cypriot President Makarios and installed as his replacement Nikos Sampson, a leader strongly in favour of enosis with Greece.1,2

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Security Council; Occupied Zone; Constituent State; Turkish Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137452757_3

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