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The Cyprus Museum

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The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
The Cyprus Museum
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+357 22 865854

Hours:
Sunday10am - 1pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday8am - 6pm
Wednesday8am - 6pm
Thursday8am - 6pm
Friday8am - 6pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


The Turkish invasion of Cyprus , code-named by Turkey as Operation Attila, was a Turkish military invasion of the island country of Cyprus. It was launched on 20 July 1974, following the Cypriot coup d'état on 15 July 1974. The coup had been ordered by the military Junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard in conjunction with EOKA-B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed the pro-Enosis Nikos Sampson. The aim of the coup was the annexation of the island by Greece, and the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus was declared.In July 1974, Turkish forces invaded and captured 3% of the island before a ceasefire was declared. The Greek military junta collapsed and was replaced by a democratic government. In August 1974 another Turkish invasion resulted in the capture of approximately 40% of the island. The ceasefire line from August 1974 became the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus and is commonly referred to as the Green Line. Around 150,000 people were 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, roughly 60,000 Turkish Cypriots, amounting to half the Turkish Cypriot population, were displaced from the south to the north. The Turkish invasion ended in the partition of Cyprus along the UN-monitored Green Line, which still divides Cyprus, and the formation of a de facto autonomous Turkish Cypriot administration in the north. In 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declared independence, although Turkey is the only country that recognizes it. The international community considers the TRNC's territory as Turkish-occupied territory of the Republic of Cyprus. The occupation is viewed as illegal under international law, amounting to illegal occupation of European Union territory since Cyprus became its member.The invasion's Turkish Armed Forces code name was Operation Atilla. Among Turkish speakers the operation is also referred as Cyprus Peace Operation or Operation Peace or Cyprus Operation , as Turkey took military action on the pretext of a peacekeeping operation.
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