Cyprus question
Cyprus question

Summary/Abstract: The Cyprus issue summary Cyprus, Mediterranean island with the Greek majority and Turkish minority, it was part of the Ottoman Empire. After that time, Cyprus was a British colony from 1870 to 1960. Hellenic population of the island was for decades torn between ambition to join Cyprus with Greece, and on the other hand, the idea of an independent state. Finally, Cyprus became an independent state. But, torn by national conflicts, an independent island nation and its guarantors of the agreements of Zurich and London 1959-1960 provided the constitutional rights of the minority Turks, including the right of intervention countries guarantors for breach of the agreement. Ankara is on this basis, in 1974. The intervening in Cyprus, as a response to the attempt of the former military junta in Greece to annex Cyprus. Turkish troops then occupied 37% of the territory of Cyprus and the UN has in the past (1964) were sent its peacekeeping troops to guard the so-called green line, which is today the border between the republic of Cyprus and the Turkish republic of Northern Cyprus. State of North Cyprus, Turkey declared in 1983 and only the diplomatic recognition. Problems with refugees, property, and other immigrants, are still a problem for which solutions are sought.

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