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When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers, Britain renounced the Agreement, rejected all Turkish claims over Cyprus and declared the island a British colony. In 1915, Britain offered Cyprus to Constantine I of Greece on the condition that Greece join the war on the side of the British, which he declined.
Northern Cyprus, [a] officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), [b] is a de facto state [5] [6] that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. It is recognised only by Turkey , and its territory is considered by all other states to be part of the Republic of Cyprus .
[91] [92] The Turkish Cypriot population initially advocated the continuation of the British rule, then demanded the annexation of the island to Turkey, and in the 1950s, together with Turkey, established a policy of taksim, the partition of Cyprus and the creation of a Turkish polity in the north. [93] Ethnic map of Cyprus according to the ...
Alternative sources suggest that the Turkish Cypriots in northern Cyprus are today outnumbered by the Turkish settlers, [33] contrary to the picture presented by the 2006 so called TRNC census. Settlement in northern Cyprus, especially if accompanied by naturalization, is in violation of article 49 of the Geneva Conventions Protocol of 1977 ...
Scuffles broke out between United Nations peacekeepers and Turkish Cypriot security forces in ethnically split Cyprus on Friday over unauthorised construction work in an area under U.N. control ...
It is located south of the Anatolian Peninsula, yet it belongs to the Cyprus Arc. [1] Geographically, Cyprus is located in West Asia, [2] but the country is considered a European country in political geography. [3] Cyprus also had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, Turkish, and Western European ...
Map of Northern Cyprus (shown in red) In order to find a solution to the Cyprus dispute, which started in 1963, numerous plans and meetings in international arena were organized and eventually United Nations determined the solution to be "bi-zonal and bi-communal federation" based on the political equality of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot people.
Animated map of seismicity near Turkey quakes starting ~3am local time plotting Feb 6 M7.8 mainshock (pink), early aftershocks (orange), M7.5 aftershock to the north (tan), and subsequent ...