#1974 Turkish invasion

Today marks 52 years since US ambassador Rodger Davies was assassinated inside the American embassy in Nicosia on Wednesday, August 19, 1974, during a violent anti-American demonstration held days after Turkey’s second ...

Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis called on Friday for renewed emphasis on international law as Cyprus marked the 52nd anniversary of the second phase of the 1974 Turkish invasion. In a post ...

The 70th Engineer Battalion was ordered not to lay mines at a key landing point on the northern coast of Cyprus shortly before the Turkish invasion in 1974, according to an ...

Greek defence minister Nikos Dendias said on Friday that the Cyprus problem remains an issue of “illegal military occupation” as Greece marked the 52nd anniversary of the second phase of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said the second phase of the Turkish invasion in 1974 left “even deeper scars on the tragedy on our homeland and our people”. “Fifty-two years is ...

Tasos Markou was a major when he disappeared during the second phase of the Turkish invasion in Mia Milia in 1974, but for his son, who was six years old at ...

State officials, healthcare workers and relatives on Wednesday honoured the memory of the 33 people killed when Athalassa hospital was bombed during the 1974 Turkish invasion. A memorial service was held at ...

To the surprise of absolutely no-one, the two-day visit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres produced no substantive results, beyond the possibility of a 5+1 conference in the near future if adequate ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that the European Union’s involvement in efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem was now substantive rather than symbolic, as he reiterated that progress ...

President Nikos Christodoulides stressed he would “not become the president of partition” and that the continuation of the Republic of Cyprus was an “absolute red line”. Speaking on Monday evening ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday promised to “never abandon the Turkish Cypriot people” in his message issued to mark the 52nd anniversary of the arrival of Turkish troops ...

Members of the Cypriot diaspora in the United Kingdom gathered outside the Turkish embassy in London on Monday for a peaceful protest marking the 52nd anniversary of the Turkish invasion ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday described July 20 as “an open wound”, as he marked the 52nd anniversary of the commencement of Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus. “Every time ...

The Israeli foreign ministry on Monday said that it “stands in solidarity in Cyprus” in its message issued to mark the 52nd anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of the island. “...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday stressed that he is ready to attend an enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem as soon as this summer but said that the possibility of ...

Monday marked exactly 52 years since Turkish troops landed in Cyprus, commencing an invasion which would reshape the map of the island, realign its political and demographic balances, and cause Cyprus’ ...

President Nikos Christodoulides affirmed on Sunday that he would press Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman to allow excavations at suspected missing persons burial sites in military areas in the north ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou paid tribute on Sunday to the 28 soldiers of the 398th Infantry Battalion who were killed during the 1974 Turkish invasion, saying their sacrifice remained a responsibility for ...

It is difficult to overstate the place Kyrenia has occupied in my father’s life. The town retains, as it has for many of its displaced inhabitants, a magnetic hold ...

A memorial service honouring those who died during the 1974 coup and Turkish invasion was held in Paralimni on Sunday. The annual national religious memorial service and prayer for the missing ...

Cyprus’ modern history is defined by missed diplomatic opportunities, ideological blindness and the cold calculations of regional powers. Since 1974, the events leading to the island’s partition have been clouded ...

Memory is preserved through people rather than monuments, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Saturday during a remembrance event in the Amathus municipality honouring those killed and missing during the ...

Turkey’s defence ministry on Friday released a video in which it decried the “bloody legacy” of Greek Cypriot paramilitary group Eoka, two days after the 52nd anniversary of the ...

The daughter of a man missing since the Turkish invasion of 1974 has renewed calls for legal reform after describing what she says is a prolonged bureaucratic struggle to settle her ...