The 1960 Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative and judicial branches as well as a complex system of checks and balances including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots.
A Constitución de 1960 prevía un sistema de goberno presidencial con executivos independentes, lexislativo e xudicial, así como un complexo sistema de controis e equilibrios, deseñando un coeficiente de participación para protexer os intereses dos turco-chipriotas.