Northern Cyprus was seized by an invading Turkish army in July 1974. Many of the Greeks and Maronites in that territory taken by the Turks then fled south, to the Greek-ruled Republic of Cyprus. In 1983, the Turks set up a puppet regime in the territory they had seized, calling it the “Turkish Republic of […]
Turkish Mob Attacks British Peacekeepers on Cyprus
Turkish mobs have been attacking UN Peacekeepers who have tried to prevent the Turks from building a road from Turkish Cyprus (now called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) through a buffer zone and right up to the border with Cyprus, where a mixed Turk-Greek village is located. But before getting to that, some background […]