The Position and Interest of Turkey Regarding the Cyprus Dispute

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Considering the role Turkey plays as an agent of peace (but not in all aspects given that national interests sometimes could affect its decision) if I would say; the position and interest of Turkey regarding the Cyprus dispute is one of great concern. Greece is not pleased with the Turkish occupation of the North of the Cyprus launched on 20th July 1974 and since then, Turkey is still present in most of the affairs of the North side. Now the big questions are; why is the conflict or issue yet to be solved? What is the big problem here? Does this issued also include any historical bitterness? Who is the difficult actor (Turkey or Greece) here?
Greek Cypriot are more in population about 77% while the Turkish Cypriot are 18% of the population of the entire Cyprus and 5% were made up of other minorities i.e. Armenians and Maronite as at four decades ago. Greece believe that the Island should belong to the Greek Cypriots and Turkey would not allow this, thus the Greek EOKA-B (paramilitary organisation formed in 1971) and the Turkish Resistance Organization initiated the atrocities that ...

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