The 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus represents one of the most dramatic and long- continuing frozen conflicts in the eastern Mediterranean. It was the capstone of decades of political conflict, ethnic division, and geopolitical competition, and it remade the islet’s fate in a manner that still shapes domestic politics to this day. Cyprus before 1974 Cyprus itself is an island in the eastern Mediterranean whose strategic position made it a crossroads of empires, civilisations and societies. Subject to British imperial rule from 1878 to 1960, the islet had two major communities: the Greek Cypriots, who constituted roughly 80 percent of the population, and the Turkish Cypriots, the sizable minority of about 18 percent....