Nicosia, Cyprus, July 2002 REMEMBER THE CYPRIOTS!  In the summer of 2002, while working on assignment in Cyprus to document the current state of affairs, I found myself  at a ceremony on the border (between the occupied North and Free South) documenting the family members that had come to remember the missing. To this day, Greek Cypriots still come to the border and continue to honor their loved ones by demonstrating their strength to stand together still…. The Turkish invasion of Cyprus  launched on 20 July 1974, was a Turkish military invasion in response to a Greek military junta backed coup in Cyprus. It is known in Turkey as the Cyprus Peace Operation (Turkish: Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı), Cyprus Operation (Kıbrıs Harekâtı) or by itsTurkish Armed Forces code name Operation Atilla (Atilla Harekâtı). More than one quarter of the population of Cyprus was expelled from the occupied northern part of the island where Greek Cypriots constituted 80% of the population. There was also a flow of roughly 60,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south to the north after the conflict. The Turkish invasion ended in the partition of Cyprus along the UN-monitored Green Line which still divides Cyprus today. In 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) declared independence, although Turkey is the only country which recognises it.

Nicosia, Cyprus, July 2002

REMEMBER THE CYPRIOTS!

 In the summer of 2002, while working on assignment in Cyprus to document the current state of affairs, I found myself  at a ceremony on the border (between the occupied North and Free South) documenting the family members that had come to remember the missing. To this day, Greek Cypriots still come to the border and continue to honor their loved ones by demonstrating their strength to stand together still….

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus  launched on 20 July 1974, was a Turkish military invasion in response to a Greek military junta backed coup in Cyprus. It is known in Turkey as the Cyprus Peace Operation (Turkish: Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı), Cyprus Operation (Kıbrıs Harekâtı) or by itsTurkish Armed Forces code name Operation Atilla (Atilla Harekâtı).

More than one quarter of the population of Cyprus was expelled from the occupied northern part of the island where Greek Cypriots constituted 80% of the population. There was also a flow of roughly 60,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south to the north after the conflict. The Turkish invasion ended in the partition of Cyprus along the UN-monitored Green Line which still divides Cyprus today. In 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) declared independence, although Turkey is the only country which recognises it.

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