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Nicosia airport in Cyprus, in the days between the military coup d'état and the Turkish invasion, 19th July 1974. Tourists In Cyprus. Picture of Turkish paratroopers land in Cyprus, 20 July 1974, during Turkey's invasion of north Cyprus. Twenty-three yeares later, Greek-Cypriots are...
The 1974 Cypriot coup d'état was a military coup d'état executed by the Cypriot National Guard and sponsored by the Greek military junta. On 15 July 1974 the coup plotters removed the sitting President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, from office and installed pro-Enosis nationalist Nikos Sampson.
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Apr 1, 2004 · By Tom Housden. BBC News Online. In July 1974 the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, was deposed in a coup orchestrated by Greece's then military regime. It was the culmination of years of...
Jul 20, 2023 · For 49 years now, civil-defence sirens installed in 180 locations in Cyprus go off for a minute at 5:30 am each 20th of July to remind people of the moment in 1974 when Turkey invaded the island, and its two communities – Greek and Turkish Cypriots – were plunged into war.
Oct 19, 2014 · 12 min read. ·. Oct 18, 2014. 1. It was one of the most glamorous resorts in the Mediterranean, a favourite of stars such as Burton and Taylor. But in 1974 Famagusta in Cyprus became a ghost...
Jul 17, 2014 · NICOSIA (Reuters) - On a balmy July morning in 1974, Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss was awoken by the sound of gunfire outside her childhood home in Cyprus’s capital Nicosia.
