Question: Who claims a homeland that spans Turkey and the countries with the cities of Shiraz and Assur?

initially, the turkish cypriots favoured the continuation of the british rule. however, they were alarmed by the greek cypriot calls for enosis as they saw the union of crete with greece, which led to the exodus of cretan turks, as a precedent to be avoided, and they took a pro-partition stance in response to the militant activity of eoka. the turkish cypriots also viewed themselves as a distinct ethnic group of the island and believed in their having a separate right to self-determination from greek cypriots. meanwhile, in the 1950s, turkish leader menderes considered cyprus an "extension of anatolia", rejected the partition of cyprus along ethnic lines and favoured the annexation of the whole island to turkey. nationalistic slogans centred on the idea that "cyprus is turkish" and the ruling party declared cyprus to be a part of the turkish homeland that was vital to its security. upon realising the fact that the turkish cypriot population was only 20% of the islanders made annexation unfeasible, the national policy was changed to favour partition. the slogan "partition or death" was frequently used in turkish cypriot and turkish protests starting in the late 1950s and continuing throughout the 1960s. although after the zürich and london conferences turkey seemed to accept the existence of the cypriot state and to distance itself from its policy of favouring the partition of the island, the goal of the turkish and turkish cypriot leaders remained that of creating an independent turkish state in the northern part of the island. <SEP> shiraz ( (listen); persian: شیراز‎, šīrāz, [ʃiːˈrɒːz] (listen)) is the fifth-most-populous city of iran and the capital of fars province (old persian as pars). at the 2016 census, the population of the city was 1,869,001 and its built-up area with "shahr-e jadid-e sadra" (sadra new town) was home to 1,565,572 inhabitants. shiraz is located in the southwest of iran on the "rudkhaneye khoshk" (the dry river) seasonal river. it has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for over a thousand years. shiraz is one of the oldest cities of ancient persia. <SEP> Kurdistan (/ ˌkɜːrdɪˈstæn, ˈstɑːn /; Kurdish: کوردستان ‎ (ˌkʊɾdɯˈstɑːn) (listen); lit. Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges. The territory corresponds to Kurdish irredentist claims. ``homeland of the Kurds '') or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo - cultural historical region wherein the Kurdish people form a prominent majority population and Kurdish culture, languages and national identity have historically been based. <SEP> According to the annals of Shalmaneser I, discovered at Assur (Assur: An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq), in his first year he conquered eight countries in the north-west and destroyed the fortress of Arinnu, the dust of which he brought to Assur. <SEP> His parents were from Kazerun, Fars Province. Despite his profound effect on Persian life and culture and his enduring popularity and influence, few details of his life are known. Accounts of his early life rely upon traditional anecdotes. Early tazkiras (biographical sketches) mentioning Hafez are generally considered unreliable. At an early age, he memorized the Quran and was given the title of Hafez, which he later used as his pen name. The preface of his Divān, in which his early life is discussed, was written by an unknown contemporary whose name may have been Moḥammad Golandām. Hafez was born in Shiraz, Iran. Two of the most highly regarded modern editions of Hafez's Divān are compiled by Moḥammad Ghazvini and Qāsem Ḡani (495 ghazals) and by Parviz Natel-Khanlari (486 ghazals).Modern scholars generally agree that Hafez was born either in 1315 or 1317. According to an account by Jami, Hafez died in 1390. Hafez was supported by patronage from several successive local regimes: Shah Abu Ishaq, who came to power while Hafez was in his teens; Timur at the end of his life; and even the strict ruler Shah Mubariz ud-Din Muhammad (Mubariz Muzaffar). Though his work flourished most under the 27-year rule of Jalal ud-Din Shah Shuja (Shah Shuja), it is claimed Hāfez briefly fell out of favor with Shah Shuja for mocking inferior poets (Shah Shuja wrote poetry himself and may have taken the comments personally), forcing Hāfez to flee from Shiraz to Isfahan and Yazd, but no historical evidence is available. He is said to have been in Timur's court, as Hafez wrote a ghazal whose verse says if this Turk accept his homage: