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Why doesn't anyone talk about the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus?
Jihad Watch — ... years of the Turkish occupation and ethnic cleansing of northern Cyprus. People have been driven out of their homes, churches have been converted into mosques, and the thriving resort of Famagusta transformed into a ghost town. Nobody cares. Instead, the trumped-up plight of the "Palestinians," an invented nationality committed to the eradication of a sovereign state in the name of Islamic jihad, occupies the world's attention. "Turkish Invasion and Cyprus Occupation," from CyprusNet (thanks to LGF2): On 15 July 1974 the ruling ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/2/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... Turkish Invasion and Cyprus Occupation On 15 July 1974 the ruling military junta of Greece staged a coup to overthrow the democratically elected Government of Cyprus. On 20 July Turkey, using the coup as a pretext, invaded Cyprus, purportedly to restore constitutional order. Instead, it seized 35% of the territory of Cyprus in the north, an act universally condemned as a gross infringement of international law and the UN Charter. Turkey, only 75 km away, had repeatedly claimed, for decades before the ...