UN General Assembly
1964

108. When at the invitation of the United Kingdom — and on this even Sir Anthony Eden’s memoirs bear me out — Turkey agreed to inject itself into the Cyprus issue, the bait offered to Turkey and to which it has since clung, was the possibility of partition. It was to this end that Turkey, by word and action, contributed to the colonial policy of divide and rule. It was to this end of partition that the so-called Zurich and London Agreements were conceived as a first step. It was to this end of partition, in the service of neo-colonialist purposes, that Turkey instigated the subversion and promoted the animosity of the Turkish minority towards the rest of the population in Cyprus, and it was to this same end that Turkey resorted to aggression. When, however, Turkey realized that the term “partition” did not sound well in the ears of public opinion, she thought up the phrase "federation” in the hope that it might sound better.