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		The Turkish Cypriots are mainly Moslems and the Greek Cypriots are mainly adherents of the Greek Orthodox Church.
		The Greek Cypriot agitation for “Enosis” (the union of Cyprus with Greece), perpetrated by the Greeks, was further intensified with the change of administration in Cyprus (from Turkish to British) in 1878.
		The Turkish Cypriots have, for about forty years, been deprived of an official voice in the world and have been deprived of the financial resources to match the Greek Cypriots in the presentation of their case to the world community.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=128157 (6206 words)

	Ann-Sofi Jakobsson Hatay, Turkish Cypriot Elections, Negotiating Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On 14 December 2003, the Turkish Cypriots went to the polls to elect new deputies to the unicameral 50-seat legislature of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, TRNC.
		From a Turkish Cypriot point of view, one major issue that needs to be addressed by third parties in the months ahead concerns the consequences of provisions for territorial adjustment and the reinstatement of property to Greek Cypriot owners in the Turkish Cypriot constituent state of the proposed United Cyprus Republic.
		In the meantime, after the Turkish Cypriot elections on 14 December 2003 and the subsequent adoption of pro-settlement policies both by the new government in Lefkosha and in Ankara, there is now at least a rhetorical commitment to seek a swift settlement from all parties in the conflict.
	www.transnational.org /forum/meet/2004/Hatay_Turkish-Cypriot.html (1987 words)

	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turkish Cypriots were opposed to the proposal since it allegedly re-classfied their status as a minority, instead of co-founders of the state; the proposals also removed what they saw as their community’s constitutional safeguards.
		Despite the fact that the Turkish Cypriot residents of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus- and possibly some of the naturalized Anatolian Turks - are EU citizens, fewer than expected Northerners voted in the 2004 elections.
		As an area under dispute, the Turkish military presence in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is seen differently by the communities in the region, the Greek population seeing it as an occupational force, while the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus citizens see it as protecting their life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkish_Cypriot_State (3186 words)

	Assembly of Turkish American Associations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Until influential Greek Cypriots come to terms with the appalling behavior of their community toward the smaller Turkish Cypriot community and stop trying to persuade themselves and the world that each side was as much to blame as the other, there will be no reconciliation in Cyprus.
		The aim of the Greek Cypriots was to reduce the Turkish Cypriot people to the status of a mere minority, wholly subject to the control of the Greek Cypriots, pending ultimate destruction or expulsion of the Turkish Cypriots from the island.
		However, the Turkish Cypriots were not only outnumbered by nearly four to one; they were also surrounded in their villages by armed Greek Cypriots; they had no way of protecting their women and children, and Turkey was 40 miles away across the sea.
	www.ataa.org /ataa/ref/cyprus/cyprus_genocide.html (2896 words)

	The Turkish Times/Opinion
		Sovereignty recognition of the Turkish Cypriot State would be one of the most effective means of providing the Turkish Cypriots with the sense of security that they need and are entitled to.
		Turkish Cypriot insistence on sovereignty should not be misconstrued as an attempt to "pocket and run away with it", as the Greek Cypriot side claims.
		Aside from the economic problems, the chief Turkish concern is disintegration of Iraq in the wake of a war that may pave the way for the establishment of a Kurdish state with 'undesired' repercussions on the Turkish side.
	www.theturkishtimes.com /archive/02/06_15/opinion.html (5280 words)

	Turkish Cypriot Network
		At the beginning of this month, the Greek Cypriot army started to strengthen their positions by digging new trenches on the hills to the south of the village and increased the number of their soldiers in the area, which caused concern amongst the Turkish Cypriot population.
		Turkish Cypriots cannot travel freely, they cannot communicate directly with the rest of the world, they cannot trade internationally and our young people are not allowed to participate in international sports activities.
		The illegal Greek Cypriot regime is still treated as the legitimate government of all Cyprus by the international community, while the Turkish Cypriots are deprived of their basic human rights and their equality given to them by international agreements, which Britain is a signatory.
	www.tcn-cy.freeuk.com /tcn48.htm (4187 words)

	* Turkish Cypriot Internet Society - Cyprus Problem *
		Turkish Cypriots were relieved from this agony and were saved from total extermination, only by the timely intervention of Turkey in 1974, after the Greeks had made a bloody attempt at the final takeover of Cyprus by Greece, through a coup d'etat organized by the junta in Athens and its collaborators in Cyprus.
		The Turkish Cypriot people have formed a democratic and secular state, with a plural system based on free elections, social justice and the rule of law, with its citizens enjoying all human rights and liberties.
		The Greek Cypriot administration is also trying to forward its application for full membership of the EU, which is based on the claim that it can unilaterally determine the future of the entire island and create international obligations on behalf of the Turkish Cypriot people as well.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/ellerburn/16/cyprus_p.html (794 words)

	Cyprus: The Turkish Cypriot Pseudostate and Turkey's Objectives
		The Turkish invasion and occupation forcibly divided the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus, a sovereign and independent state, with a mixed population of nearly three quarters of a million consisting of 82% Greek Cypriots (including Maronites, Armenians and Latins) and 18% Turkish Cypriots, and forcibly segregated its people.
		Turkish Cypriots are now outnumbered by the approximately 85.000 Turkish settlers and the additional 35.000 Turkish occupation troops.
		With that in mind any proposals made at the negotiating table are approached by the Turkish side not from the point of view of assisting in a solution but from the point of view of whether they secure the political recognition of the status quo.
	www.hellas.org /cyprus/cypio.htm (1266 words)

	Turkish Policy Quarterly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The challenge for the Greek Cypriot community is to include in its visions the economy of the Turkish Cypriot community without overshadowing it but allow it to grow under one federal umbrella in the EU ‘independently together’.
		Turkish Cypriots were unable to be legitimized in the international arena and consequently had no legal documents they could use overseas both for business purposes as well as for simple traveling needs.
		The Turkish Cypriots have been running their own affairs for so long they have to come to attach a very high premium to independence of actions and thus arguments of a ‘bigger pie for all’ are of limited interest.
	www.turkishpolicy.com /default.asp?show=winter_2005_Stavri (4718 words)

	Discover Turkey: CYPRUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All that the Turkish intervention of 1974 accomplished was to consolidate Turkish Cypriot enclaves into a unified Turkish Cypriot zone in Northern Cyprus.
		The preposterous assertions by the Greek and Greek Cypriot governments that the Turkish Cypriots are but a rebellious minority and that the Turkish peace operation of 1974 was an unprovoked act of aggression are still widely believed in the world at large.
		A few photographs depicting defenceless Turkish Cypriots (including children, elderly men, and women) brutally murdered, searched for hours on end at barricades set up on main roads and entrances to Turkish villages and Turkish quarters of towns as well as Turkish homes and mosques demolished by greek cyriot gunmen during the period 1963-1974.
	www.turkishnews.com /DiscoverTurkey/cyprus (424 words)

	Turkish Cypriot Elections Confirm Status Quo, But Times May Be Changing
		In the Greek Cypriot south of the divided capital, Nicosia, shops still display the “no” posters from that referendum, while in the northern Turkish Cypriot part of the city, many citizens still await some reward from the international community for having given a resounding “yes” to the same Annan Plan.
		Meanwhile, although some 44.5 percent of Turkish Cypriots did vote for Talat, giving the CTP exactly half the deputies in the 50-seat parliament and a 10 percentage point lift from their showing in the previous 2003 elections, most of their voting gains came at the expense of other pro-settlement parties.
		While the Greek Cypriots have historically objected to any easing of the economic barriers to trade with the north, their arguments have lost weight now that the whole island is technically EU territory.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/April_2005/0504032.html (1275 words)

	Turkish Cypriot Network
		Greek Cypriot defence ministry spokesman Andreas Harides said that "The arrival of the planes is part of the implementation of the common defence accord between Greece and Cyprus," and claimed that this was intended to "ascertain the readiness" of the base.
		Greek Cypriots seeing themselves as the legitimate representatives of all Cyprus, consider it to be their god given right to bring missiles to the island and build an air base for the Greek air force.
		Greek Cypriot side was pleased that the earlier French opposition to the accession of south Cyprus was not mentioned during the summit.
	home.freeuk.net /tcn-cy/Tcn28.htm (3714 words)

	Turkish Cypriot Network
		During his speech at the UN General Assembly Greek Cypriot leader Glafcos Clerides shamelessly claimed that the system of guarantees established in 1960 was the cause of the Cyprus problem and claimed that it should be changed.
		Following the confederation proposal by the Turkish side, which was rejected by the Greek side without even consideration, Turkish Cypriot President Rauf Denktash of the TRNC has proposed the creation of a joint commission for the exchange of property between the Greek and Turkish sides.
		Speaking to the press after a meeting with Glafcos Clerides, she praised Clerides' “generous offer” to the Turkish Cypriot community to participate in the negotiating team stressing that this conveys a "powerful message to the EU that the President of Cyprus understands and fully appreciates his commitment to the Turkish Cypriot community".
	home.freeuk.net /tcn-cy/Tcn32.htm (3905 words)

	Assembly of Turkish American Associations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Turkish Cypriot bravery foiled the genocide attempt, but Turkish Cypriots were nevertheless herded into tiny enclaves constituting but three percent of the island and subjected to a punishing Greek Cypriot embargo.
		Its aim was illegal ENOSIS and the elimination or extermination of Turkish Cypriots from the island.
		Greek Cypriots thus are given no incentive to compromise their demand for a unitary state in which Turkish Cypriots would be politically overwhelmed.
	www.ataa.org /ataa/ref/cyprus/statement.html (1388 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| EU approves Turkish Cypriot aid
		In 2004, Greek Cypriots rejected a UN plan for reunification which was supported by many Turkish Cypriots.
		Restrictions are still in place on the Turkish Cypriots, despite their backing for the UN plan.
		Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos is due to meet UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday to discuss further efforts towards reuniting the island.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4756932.stm (388 words)

	TURKISH AND TURKISH CYPRIOT PRESS ON THE KILLING OF TWO UNARMED GREEK CYPRIOTS BY TURKS IN CYPRUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The killing of two unarmed Greek Cypriot demonstrators by so-called Turkish Cypriot "police", members of the Turkish ultra right-wing nationalist "Grey Wolves" and "Idealist Hearths" organisations and Turkish occupation troops on 11 and 14 August was given wide coverage in the Turkish and Turkish Cypriot press.
		In Dherynia, when the Greek Cypriot youth Anastasios Isaac (24) from Paralimni tried to run away from the site of the incidents, he was trapped by the barbed wires and was lynched by a group of Idealists armed with iron clubs and bars.
		A Greek Cypriot running away was trapped in the barbed wire and was unable to escape and he was beaten with iron bars.
	www.hr-action.org /chr/TPress00.html (1163 words)

	Turkish-Cypriot Theatres
		Especially during the Turkish War of Liberation (1920-22), many plays have been performed by the Turkish-Cypriot theatre groups to raise money for the displaced people and orphaned children as a result of the Greek invasion of western Anatolia, Turkey.
		The play became very popular for a simple reason that the characters spoke with what was called a very Cypriot [rural] accent of the early years and that the people could find a part of them in the characters.
		The Cypriot-Turkish theatres also produces a small number of celebrity actresses, among them Mine Senhuy, who stars in the popular television series Bizimkiler, on a Turkish televison, and Ayhatun Atesin, who is famous for her successful performance in one-person play of Willy Russel's One Woman: Shirley Valentine in 1993.
	www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/culture/theatre/index.html (841 words)

	Turkish Cypriot Network
		Omer Gazi Tekogul, the Turkish Cypriot, who was abducted by the Greek Cypriot police from Pyla, a mixed village under the control of the United Nations, on 1 December 2000, was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment on March 20, by the illegal Greek Cypriot court.
		Greek Cypriot newspaper Politis, following the case of Costas Menikou, the so called missing Greek Cypriot soldier, has revealed on January 6 that the Greek Cypriot administration knew at least as far back as 1981 that he was buried in the Lakadamia military cemetery in south Cyprus.
		While the tension created by the illegal abduction of Omer Tekoglu, a Turkish Cypriot from the mixed village of Pyla, by the Greek Cypriot police is continuing, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against the illegal Greek Cypriot regime in another abduction case that took place in 1995.
	www.tcn-cy.freeuk.com (590 words)

	Greek, Turkish Cypriot Leaders Praise Mass Border Crossing
		NICOSIA (AP)--Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders welcomed the crossing of tens of thousands of their people across the U.N. buffer zone that has divided the island for nearly 30 years.
		But there was a sour note, with the attack Sunday on an elderly Turkish Cypriot couple by the current occupants of their former home in Limassol.
		The crossing by Turkish Cypriots, which was also in thousands the first five days, dwindled to a few hundred on April 28, Monday, a working day for Muslims.
	www.theturkishtimes.com /archive/03/0503/f-kibris.html (501 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Talat says US visit upgraded Turkish Cypriot status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Turkish Cypriot premier is confident that the Greek Cypriots are no longer seen to be representing the Turkish Cypriot side and says that although not recognized as a state, the Turkish Cypriots now have greater prestige
		Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat returned to the island from a landmark visit to the United States that he said boosted the image of the Turkish Cypriots and upgraded their political status.
		The Turkish Cypriots voted 65 percent in favor of the plan, which foresaw a loose federation of Turkish and Greek Cypriots.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=9037 (701 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Turkish Cypriot government quits
		The Turkish Cypriot minority government has resigned, ditching efforts to forge a new coalition after a failed referendum to reunite the island.
		Turkish Cypriots in the north of the island voted for the plan, but it was defeated when Greek Cypriots in the south rejected it.
		The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was declared in 1983, but has been recognised only by Turkey itself.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3758638.stm (302 words)

	Cyprus: GREEK AND TURKISH CYPRIOT COEXISTENCE AND TMT
		The Turkish Cypriots originated as a Muslim population during the period when Cyprus was ruled by the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and the 19th centuries.
		The mass of Greek and Turkish Cypriots lived and cooperated peacefully in an atmosphere of religious and cultural tolerance.
		The Turkish Cypriot minority was the object of continuous attempts at manipulation aimed at converting them into an instrument of colonial policy in countering the anti-colonial movement of the rest of the population of the island.
	www.hellas.org /cyprus/tmt.htm (1611 words)

	Turkish Cypriot leader interviewed by private Greek Cypriot TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Turkish Cypriot leader interviewed by private Greek Cypriot TV Turkish Cypriot leader interviewed by private Greek Cypriot TV BBC Summary of World Broadcasts
		The president of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktas, has said that Greek Cypriot civilians were killed by Turkish Cypriot fighters during the 1974 hostilities.
		And you forget that Turkish Cypriots for 11 years could not go to their properties in 103 places...
	www.hr-action.org /chr/Sigma00.html (1694 words)

	International Center for Journalists
		Loukas Fourlas (left), a Greek Cypriot, and Rasih Reshad, a Turkish Cypriot, enjoy a break during their two-week study tour at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial during a sightseeing trip in Washington, D.C. From September 10 to 23 ICFJ hosted four Greek Cypriot and five Turkish Cypriot journalists.
		Its intention is to encourage cooperation between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot professionals and community leaders through shared activities.
		The two-week study tour was an opportunity for the Cypriot participants to better understand their U.S. colleagues, and U.S. policy toward the Middle East and Southeastern Europe together.
	www.icfj.org /CypriotProgram.html (368 words)

	JTW News - Rice Meets Turkish Cypriot Leader
		The meeting was part of a U.S. effort to ease the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community after it supported the failed U.N. settlement plan for Cyprus last year.
		The Turkish Cypriots approved the U.N. plan by a 65 percent margin.
		But the majority Greek Cypriots in the south rejected the plan at the urging of officials of the Nicosia government, because it would limit the right of Greek Cypriots to regain property in the north lost after Turkish troops invaded in 1974.
	www.turkishweekly.net /news.php?id=21277 (1443 words)

	HISTORY OF THE TURKISH CYPRIOT THEATRES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Liberation (1920-22), many plays have been performedby the Turkish Cypriot theatre groups to raise moneyfor the displaced people and orphaned children as a result of the Greek invasion of western Anatolia, Turkey.
		During this period, moves were started to institutionalize this art in the Turkish Cypriot community, as the new generation of playwrights proliferated such as Hilmi Özen, Üner Ulutug, and Ayla Hashmat.
		One important success of the Turkish Cypriot theatre has been with a certain radio theatre called Alikko and Caher.
	bornova.ege.edu.tr /~ncyprus/tiyatro.html (1117 words)

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