Turkish invasion of Cyprus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

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00:02:51 1 Background
00:02:59 1.1 Ottoman and British rule
00:06:52 1.2 1950s
00:10:17 1.3 1960–1963
00:11:50 1.4 1963–1974
00:16:33 2 Greek military coup and Turkish invasion
00:16:44 2.1 Greek military coup of July 1974
00:20:05 2.2 First Turkish invasion, July 1974
00:21:54 2.3 Collapse of the Greek junta and peace talks
00:24:07 2.4 Second Turkish invasion, 14–16 August 1974
00:26:51 2.4.1 Against Greek Cypriots
00:30:03 2.5 Against Turkish Cypriots
00:31:32 2.6 Missing persons
00:33:10 2.7 Destruction of cultural heritage
00:35:21 3 Opinions
00:35:30 3.1 Greek Cypriot
00:37:43 3.2 Turkish Cypriot
00:39:35 4 Aftermath
00:40:01 4.1 Declaration of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
00:41:50 4.2 Ongoing negotiations
00:45:11 4.3 Turkish settlers
00:47:22 4.4 United States arms embargo on Turkey and Republic of Cyprus



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The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı, lit. 'Cyprus peace operation' and Greek: Τουρκική εισβολή στην Κύπρο), code-named by Turkey as Operation Attila, (Turkish: Atilla Harekâtı) was a Turkish military invasion of the island country of Cyprus. It was launched on 20 July 1974, following the Cypriot coup d'état on 15 July 1974.
The coup had been ordered by the military Junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard in conjunction with EOKA-B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed the pro-Enosis Nikos Sampson. The aim of the coup was the Union of Cyprus with Greece, and the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus to be declared.In July 1974, Turkish forces invaded and captured 3% of the island before a ceasefire was declared. The Greek military junta collapsed and was replaced by a democratic government. In August 1974 another Turkish invasion resulted in the capture of approximately 40% of the island.  The ceasefire line from August 1974 became the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus and is commonly referred to as the Green Line.
Around 150,000 people (amounting to more than one-quarter of the total population of Cyprus, and to one-third of its Greek Cypriot population) were expelled from the occupied northern part of the island, where Greek Cypriots constituted 80% of the population. A little over a year later in 1975, roughly 60,000 Turkish Cypriots, amounting to half the Turkish Cypriot population,  were displaced from the south to the north. The Turkish invasion ended in the partition of Cyprus along the UN-monitored Green Line, which still divides Cyprus, and the formation of a de facto autonomous Turkish Cypriot administration in the north. In 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) declared independence, although Turkey is the only country that recognizes it. The international community considers the TRNC's territory as Turkish-occupied territory of the Republic of Cyprus. The occupation is viewed as illegal under international law, amounting to illegal occupation of European Union territory since Cyprus became its member.The invasion's Turkish Armed Forces code name was Operation Atilla. Among Turkish speakers the operation is also referred as "Cyprus Peace Operation" (Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı) or "Operation Peace" (Barış Harekâtı) or "Cyprus Operation" (Kıbrıs Harekâtı), as they claim that Turkey took military action on the pretext of a peacekeeping operation.