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The government of Cyprus also recognizes as refugees the descendants of the original refugees in the male line regardless of place of birth.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1963–74_background"><span id="1963.E2.80.9374_background"></span>1963–74 background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_refugees&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 1963–74 background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Cyprus_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyprus dispute">Cyprus dispute</a> and <a href="/wiki/Civilian_casualties_and_displacements_during_the_Cyprus_conflict" title="Civilian casualties and displacements during the Cyprus conflict">Civilian casualties and displacements during the Cyprus conflict</a></div> <p>Tension began in 1963 when Makarios proposed <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_and_London_Agreement#13_Amendments_proposed_by_Makarios_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich and London Agreement">thirteen amendments</a> to the constitution of the Republic of Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots were opposed to the proposal since they viewed it as an attempt to remove their constitutional safeguards that Greek Cypriots had claimed to be problematic in the conduct of government. On 21 December 1963, clashes between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots erupted unleashed a wave of violence across the island. Facing violence from Greek Cypriot paramilitaries, in favour of unification with Greece (<a href="/wiki/Enosis" title="Enosis">Enosis</a>), thousands of Turkish Cypriots fled their properties to enclaves with Turkish Cypriot majorities, protected by Turkish troops. By 1974, an attempted coup sponsored by the military <a href="/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967-1974" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek military junta of 1967-1974">Greek military junta of 1967-1974</a> then ruling Greece, trying to overthrow the Cypriot government and unite the island with Greece, was met with a military <a href="/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus" title="Turkish invasion of Cyprus">invasion</a> of the island by <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, which claimed it was acting as a guarantor power to prevent annexation of the island. Turkey's subsequent decades-long occupation of northern Cyprus has attracted widespread international condemnation.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post–1974"><span id="Post.E2.80.931974"></span>Post–1974</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_refugees&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Post–1974"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_789" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 789">United Nations Security Council Resolution 789</a>, <a href="/wiki/Annan_Plan_for_Cyprus" class="mw-redirect" title="Annan Plan for Cyprus">Annan Plan for Cyprus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cyprus_dispute" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyprus dispute">Cyprus dispute</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, in the 1974 <a href="/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus" title="Turkish invasion of Cyprus">Turkish invasion of Cyprus</a>, advanced to occupy about 38% of the island in the north of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Cyprus" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Cyprus">Republic of Cyprus</a> and thus transforming the Turkish Cypriot objective of <a href="/wiki/Taksim_(politics)" title="Taksim (politics)">Taksim</a> (partition of the island of Cyprus into Turkish and Greek portions, a concept declared as early as 1957 by Dr. Fazil Küçük) into reality. Greek Cypriots in the north (nearly half the Greek Cypriot population of the island) were forced by the advancing Turkish Army to flee south. Likewise, Turkish Cypriots who had not already fled to the enclaves during the intercommunal violence now chose to do so. </p><p>It is estimated that 40% of the Greek population of <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, as well as the Turkish Cypriot population, were displaced by the Turkish invasion. The figures for internally displaced Cypriots varies, the United Peacekeeping force in Cyprus (<a href="/wiki/UNFICYP" class="mw-redirect" title="UNFICYP">UNFICYP</a>) estimates 165,000 Greek Cypriots and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots. The <a href="/wiki/UNHCR" class="mw-redirect" title="UNHCR">UNHCR</a> registers slightly higher figures of 200,000 and 65,000 respectively, being partly based on official Cypriot statistics which register children of displaced families as refugees.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On August 2, 1975, the two parties reached in Vienna the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Voluntary_Exchange_of_Population_Agreement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Voluntary Exchange of Population Agreement (page does not exist)">Voluntary Exchange of Population Agreement</a>, implemented under United Nations auspices. In accordance with this Agreement, Turkish Cypriots remaining in the south moved to the North and Greek Cypriots remaining in the north moved to the south with the exception of a few hundred Greek Cypriots who chose to reside in the north.<sup id="cite_ref-displacement_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-displacement-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After that, the separation of the two communities via the UN-patrolled Green Line prohibited the return of all internally displaced people. </p><p>Through the years, multiple <a href="/wiki/Demonstration_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Demonstration (people)">demonstrations</a> and rallies have been made by the Greek Cypriots demanding to return to their properties, such as the 1996 demonstrations by thousands of Greek Cypriot women attempting to return to their homes and properties in 1989 without success.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of Greek Cypriots chose to take their case to the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a> filing against Turkey and argued their homes are being occupied by migrant workers brought from Turkey with the intention of altering the demographics of the island.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1990, applications filed with the <a href="/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights" title="European Court of Human Rights">European Court of Human Rights</a> on behalf of 18 Greek Cypriots in the case of Varnava and Others v. Turkey, resulted in a decision on 18 September 2009 which ordered Turkey to pay €12,000 within three months to every applicant for non-pecuniary damages and €8,000 for costs and expenses.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1999, UNHCR halted its assistance activities for internally displaced persons in Cyprus.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Neither the Greek Cypriot or Turkish Cypriot displaced populations are considered to be in any need of humanitarian aid. The Greek Cypriot government instituted a program of housing and aid for the displaced. This housing programme was giving Turkish Cypriot refugee properties to the displaced Greek Cypriots. They were also benefitting from the boom in tourism across the south of the island. </p><p>Turkish Cypriot relief came mainly in the form of economic aid from Turkey as well as the allocation of formerly Greek Cypriot owned houses and property. Both sides had the same housing programme, taking use of the abandoned properties.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2003, the Turkish Cypriot President <a href="/wiki/Rauf_Denkta%C5%9F" title="Rauf Denktaş">Rauf Denktaş</a> opened the border crossing for the first time since the island was divided, allowing both Greek and Turkish Cypriots to view their property for the first time since the separation of the two communities. Crossing procedures have since been relaxed allowing Cypriots from both communities to move relatively freely across the island. </p><p>It was hoped that Cyprus's accession to the European Union would provide an impetus for reunification of the island and, in 2004, the UN-backed <a href="/wiki/Annan_plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Annan plan">Annan plan</a> was put to <a href="/wiki/Cypriot_Annan_Plan_referendums,_2004" class="mw-redirect" title="Cypriot Annan Plan referendums, 2004">referendums on both sides of the island</a>. The plan envisaged a bicommunal, bizonal, federal state, with territorial concessions by the Turkish Cypriot side but only a limited <a href="/wiki/Right_of_return" title="Right of return">right of return</a> for displaced Greek Cypriots. The plan was accepted by the Turkish Cypriots but rejected by Greek Cypriots. Cyprus later entered the EU as a divided island. A new round of talks was initiated in 2008 between the leaders of the two Cypriot communities, <a href="/wiki/Dimitris_Christofias" class="mw-redirect" title="Dimitris Christofias">Dimitris Christofias</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mehmet_Ali_Talat" title="Mehmet Ali Talat">Mehmet Ali Talat</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_action">Legal action</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_refugees&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legal action"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Toumazou_et_al._v._Republic_of_Turkey_et_al."><i>Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al.</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_refugees&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al."><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Toumazou_et_al._v._Republic_of_Turkey_et_al." class="mw-redirect" title="Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al.">Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al.</a></div> <p>In October 2009, a lawsuit was brought against the TRNC Representative Offices and <a href="/wiki/HSBC" title="HSBC">HSBC</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a> for the sale of Greek-Cypriot properties in Northern Cyprus. On 30 September 2014, the court dismissed the case <a href="/wiki/With_prejudice" class="mw-redirect" title="With prejudice">with prejudice</a> for lack of jurisdiction.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status_of_the_displaced_Greek_Cypriots_and_Turkish_Cypriots">Legal status of the displaced Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_refugees&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legal status of the displaced Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The displaced Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots fell under the UN definition of "internally displaced persons". The government of USA considers Greek Cypriots displaced as a result of the 1974 division of the island to be "refugees".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_refugees&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Loizidou_v._Turkey" title="Loizidou v. Turkey">Loizidou v. Turkey</a> a landmark refugee legal case</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Turkish_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Greco-Turkish relations">Greco-Turkish relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees_Representation_in_Cyprus" title="United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation in Cyprus">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representation in Cyprus</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_refugees&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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href="/wiki/Cyprus%E2%80%93NATO_relations" title="Cyprus–NATO relations">NATO</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2004_enlargement_of_the_European_Union" title="2004 enlargement of the European Union">Cyprus in the European Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus_and_the_Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Cyprus and the Non-Aligned Movement">Cyprus and the Non-Aligned Movement</a> (<a href="/wiki/Neutral_and_Non-Aligned_European_States" title="Neutral and Non-Aligned European States">NN States</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Cyprus" title="Politics of Cyprus">Politics of Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Cypriot_diaspora" title="Greek Cypriot diaspora">Cypriot diaspora</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><a 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