UN General Assembly
1964

84. Year after year the General Assembly had declared that there was nothing to justify such action: the small size of the territory and the fact that there is a mixed population throughout the island precluded it. The Turks, however, persisted in their conviction. Controversial provisions were included in the 1959 agreement and in the Constitution, and immoderate use of these provisions by the Turkish Cypriots culminated in their rebellion in December 1963. 85. At the time of this outbreak it was found that the Turkish community had about 2,500 fully trained and equipped men. This force acted according to a prearranged plan and immediately occupied strategic positions which enabled it, with the assistance of forces from Turkey, to try to obtain by force its dream of partition.