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17. Turkish invasion of Cyprus

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus,[15] launched on 20 July 1974, was a Turkish military invasion in response to a Greek military junta backed coup in Cyprus. It is known in Turkey as the "Cyprus Peace Operation" (Turkish: Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı , "Cyprus Operation" (Kıbrıs Harekâtı or by its Turkish Armed Forces code name Operation Atilla (Atilla Harekâtı .

The coup, ordered by the military Junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard[16][17] in conjunction with EOKA-B, deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed Nikos Sampson[18] in his place.[19]

More than one quarter of the population of Cyprus was 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, there was also a flow of roughly 60,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south to the north after the conflict.[20] The Turkish invasion ended in the partition of Cyprus along the UN-monitored Green Line which still divides Cyprus today. In 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) declared independence, although Turkey is the only country which recognises it.[21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus