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Cyprus: An Island Long Divided
In April 2009 Turkish Cypriot voters gave the hard-line National Unity Party a parliamentary majority, lending urgency to the long-standing problem. Since 1974, the Island has been divided between de facto Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot zones. In that year, the Turkish military invaded Cyprus in the wake of a military coup backed by Greece, claiming its intervention was necessary to protect Turkish Cypriots. To this day, there is a Turkish military presence of 43,000 on the island.
December 1, 2009
Theodore Kahn
Longstanding Conflict - December 2009
