1974 Cypriot coup d'état: Difference between revisions

| partof = the [[Cyprus Problemproblem]]

* However, later the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] forces coup leaders to step down. [[Cyprus Problem|Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus]] begins as Turkish troops refuse to leave when President Makarios III returns.

'''Supported by:'''<br>{{flagflagicon image|Flag of Greece| (1970-1975).svg}} [[Greek junta|Greece]]

The '''1974 Cypriot coup d'état''' was a military [[coup d'état]] executed by the [[Cypriot National Guard]] and sponsored by the [[Greek junta|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]].<ref name=Mallinson/><ref name="TIME">{{Cite magazine |title=CYPRUS: Big Troubles over a Small Island |date=July 29, 1974 |magazine=[[TIME]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911440,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307152514/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911440,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 7, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Cook | first = Chris |author2= Diccon Bewes | title = What Happened Where: A Guide to Places and Events in Twentieth-century History | publisher = Routledge | year = 1997 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FuGrcgcOiXoC | isbn = 978-1-85728-533-8| page = 65 }}</ref> The Sampson regime was described as a [[puppet state]], whose ultimate aim was the annexation of the island by Greece;<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Papadakis|first1=Yiannis|title=Nation, narrative and commemoration: political ritual in divided Cyprus|journal=History and Anthropology|date=2003|volume=14|issue=3|pages=253–270|doi=10.1080/0275720032000136642|s2cid=143231403|quote="[...] culminating in the 1974 coup aimed at the annexation of Cyprus to Greece"}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Atkin|first1=Nicholas|last2=Biddiss|first2=Michael|last3=Tallett|first3=Frank|title=The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789|isbn=9781444390728|page=184|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QyXCTW_MCQC|date=2011-05-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of international law and practice, Volume 5|date=1996|publisher=Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University|pages=204}}</ref> in the short term, the coupists proclaimed the establishment of the "Hellenic Republic of Cyprus".<ref>''Strategic review, Volume 5'' (1977), United States Strategic Institute, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hCfcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Hellenic+Republic+of+Cyprus%22 p. 48].</ref><ref>Allcock, John B. ''Border and territorial disputes'' (1992), Longman Group, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6pztAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Hellenic+Republic+of+Cyprus%22 p. 55].</ref> The coup was viewed as illegal by the [[United Nations]].