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Charalambos Alexandrou: Turkey had been trying to dismantle the Republic of Cyprus since 1963

By Xenia Tourki

Fifty-two years on, Cyprus is still searching for answers about the causes, the mistakes and the omissions that led to the Turkish invasion of 1974. Questions that remain open and keep resurfacing, insistently, in public debate: Could the coup and the invasion have been avoided? Was the seizure of Famagusta part of Turkey’s plans all […]