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Chapter 12
A Political Economy
of Division,
Development, and
Crisis: Envisioning
Reunification Beyond
the Cyprus Economic
Miracle
Nicos Trimikliniotis, Elias
Ioakimoglou, and Panayiotis
Pantelides
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto (1848)
The two sides are asymmetrical in different ways; also, they do not
recognize each other as legitimate states, even though the RoC is the inter-
nationally recognized state and an EU member. The prosperous south has
a population of just over 800,000, whilst the population issue in the not
so prosperous north is a hot political issue: estimates vary from 220,000
to 230,000 (Faiz, 2008, p. 134); some even put the figures as high as
500,0005 depending on their perspective and method of estimation.
The RoC has a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$25 billion and
an estimated GDP per capita of US$30.003. The principal export desti-
nations are Greece, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while the main
import sources are Greece, Italy, and Germany. In the immediate after-
math of the 1974 disastrous war, there was massive economic growth
up to 1990s. Since EU accession in 2004 right up to the beginning
of the crisis in 2008, the average growth rate was 3.7 percent per year.
Following a period of rapid economic growth from 2002 to 2007, the
economy has been in recession from 2009 onward. The RoC joined the
Eurozone on January 01, 2008. After the 2009 recession there was a slow
turnaround in 2010, but in 2011 there was negative economic growth as
the RoC is sinking deeper into the crisis of the Eurozone via its connec-
tion to Greece. The situation deteriorated with the loss of the country’s
main power station after a major explosion of confiscated munitions at
220 N . T R I M I K L I N I O T I S , E . I O A K I M O G L O U , AND P. P A N T E L I D E S
the Florakis naval base on July 11 (see the introductory chapter in this
volume). Since then, rating agencies have been downgrading the RoC
economy credit capacity to Baa1 and a reduced growth forecast from
1.5 to 0.5 percent in 2011. Matters took a further downturn with the
Greek “haircut” which affected the two largest banks, which announced
major losses of about 4 billion Euros, a huge amount as it amounts to
23 percent of the country’s GDP. Under EU and opposition pressure, the
Government introduced economic austerity measures and public deficit
cuts to avoid an EU bailout; however, as the revenues from tourism and
property sales are dropping and unemployment is rising, these measures
are further deflating the economy. Unemployment rose to 9.6 percent in
January 2012, the highest ever recorded.
The economy in the northern part of the country is much smaller
and more narrowly based than the south. Economic growth tends to
be erratic given the relative isolation, a large public sector subsidized by
Ankara, reliance on the Turkish Lira, and a small market size. Agricul-
ture and services together employ more than half of the workforce. Per
capita incomes in the north are, on average, about half of those in the
south. GDP is estimated to be around US$1.5 billion. The unrecognized
regime in the north is heavily dependent on Turkey (credits, grants, subsi-
dies, and trade), Turkish cheap labor and settlers and 35,000 army troops.
It has no effective control over monetary policy as the currency is the
Turkish Lira, leaving the economy vulnerable to currency shocks from
Turkey and imports Turkish inflation. Very few revenues are gained by
exports, mostly with Turkey, and limited trade with the EU6 and other
markets. During the period of 1977–2008, the average rate of growth
was 4.7 percent and per capita income has reached US$16,158 in 2008
against US$1,444 in 1977 (Güryay, 2011). The public sector relies on fis-
cal transfers from Turkey, and the rapid growth between 2003 and 2006
was sustained by real estate and construction, which subsided since 2007,
pushing the economy into recession since then (Oguz, 2008; Güryay,
2011). Apart from real estate and construction, the other major sectors
are tertiary education services, tourism, and gambling and related ser-
vices. The decline in real estate, which is manifested in a virtual stand-still
of small-scale construction, is thought to be due to legal developments
regarding Greek-Cypriot properties. In 2008, the economy in the north
entered a recession. In 2010, Ankara decided to drastically reduce grant
funding and the authorities imposed stringent austerity measures. This
plunged the economy into further recession; together with the failure
to find a solution to the Cyprus problem and the inflow of popula-
tion from Turkey, the economic crisis precipitated social and political
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The population of the TCC forms 26 percent of that of Cyprus, but GDP
is only 13 percent. There is a clear disparity between the GCC and TCC
economies with TCC unemployment accounting for 41 percent of the total,
inflation being three times higher, exports less than 5 percent, and the TCC
activity rate only 33 percent. But the TCC exchange reserves are higher than
GCC, because the Eurozone has the effect of the whole currency being an
exchange reserve. TCC per capita income was 52 percent of that of the island,
but productivity was relatively higher at 69 percent.
Another aspect of the divide is that since 2003, there has been popu-
lar interaction between the two communities; this was not possible for
almost 30 years since the war of 1974. The opening of the checkpoints on
April 23, 2003, with the sudden decision of the authorities in the north,
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• The economy in the north had gained ¤20.6 millionin 2003 but
this amount reached ¤118 million in 2009.
• There is an increase in Turkish-Cypriots working in the south; the
average number registered in the RoC social insurance scheme was
2500 workers in 2009 and their estimated income was ¤41.3 million
in 2009 compared to ¤13.2 million in 2003.
• There are 4,175 Turkish-Cypriots who maintain their social security
rights in the RoC and receive pensions of about ¤19.6 million.
• Green Line trade from north to south Cyprus began in August 2004,
and grew every year, reaching ¤7.1 million in 2008 but has decreased
to ¤6.0 million in 2009 because of recession in both sides. However,
in 2009, trade of Turkish-Cypriots fell sharply by almost 12 percent.
E N V I S I O N I N G RE U N I F I C AT I O N 223
Benefit to
Turkish
Cypriots
Movement
Greek Cypriots 18.9 31.2 47.9 36.3 28.5 37.1 39.4
Tourists na 36.4 44.8 36.0 32.5 43.1 45.6
Others 0.7 1.9 na na 19.0 27.6 31.6
Car Insurance 1.0 1.4 1.5 1.1 1.5 1.2 1.4
Sub-Total 20.6 70.9 94.1 73.4 81.5 109.0 118.0
Labor Income 13.2 31.1 39.7 39.7 42.9 45.4 41.3
Green Line Trade na 0.5 1.3 3.2 4.2 7.2 6.0
TC Pensions 16.1 16.5 17.2 17.6 18.1 18.8 19.6
Public Health 2.5 5.1 4.3 4.0 4.8 4.4 7.0
Sub-Total 31.8 53.2 62.5 64.5 70.0 75.8 73.9
TOTAL 52.4 124.1 156.6 137.9 151.5 184.8 191.9
Benefit to Greek
Cypriots
Movement
Turkish Cypriots 17.3 36.5 47.1 56.5 97.7 120.6 102.4
Car Insurance 0.5 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.8 2.1
Sub Total 17.9 37.8 48.5 58.0 99.3 122.4 104.5
Green Line Trade 0.0 0.0 0.2 1.0 0.7 2.4 3.7
Private na 0.8 0.9 1.1 1.3 2.4 3.7
Education
Sub Total 0.0 0.8 1.1 2.1 2.0 4.8 7.4
TOTAL 17.9 38.6 49.6 60.1 101.3 126.2 109.0
TC + GC 70.3 162.7 206.2 198.0 252.8 311.0 300.9
• The total financial flows from south to north has increased from
¤52.4 million in 2003 to ¤191.9 million in 2009, and growth rate
of financial flows during that period was 266.2 percent.
• A financial flow from north to south Cyprus consisted of mainly
Turkish-Cypriot customers spending, who spent ¤17.3 million in
2003 and reached ¤102.4 million in 2009.The rate of increase in
spending during the period of 2003–2008 was 492 percent.
• Total volume of flows between the two sectors increased from
¤70.3 million in 2003 to ¤300.9 million in 2009. The rate of
increase in total flows during that period was 328 percent.
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On first impression the overall volume of trade appears rather small: for
the RoC economy the above figures represent less that 1 percent, and
less than 5 percent of the Turkish-Cypriot economy. However, the overall
expenditure effect is far greater. If we add the health provisions offered
and the social aspects of interdependence, the effect is even larger: for
the Turkish-Cypriots dependence is much greater making the economy
of RoC second only to Turkey and the United Kingdom; for the RoC
we are referring to services to Cypriot citizens residing in the northern
part of the country, what the RoC considers to be occupied territo-
ries under the control of the TRNC.11 To understand this process one
must go beyond strict economic or economistic approaches: the inter-
action between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriot across the barbed
wire is best perceived in terms of a socioeconomic and ultimately polit-
ical multiplier, which has the potential to enhance the economics of
interdependence, peace, and reconciliation and can be a drive towards
settlement.
In 2003 it was thought that there was no tendency for the two Cypriot
economies to converge on a common steady-state growth; it was estimated
that it would take 30 years for the north to cover half of the economic gap
with the southern economy (Demetriades, et al., 2003). However, Ayres
(2003) found that the macroeconomic impact on growth and employ-
ment is potentially positive and particularly for the economy of the north.
Also, between 2003 and 2006 the economy in the north converged from
30 to 52 percent with that of the south (Oguz, 2008). This gap has been
stagnant ever since.
The 1974 war left the society and economy divided and devastated.
It was “a planners nightmare” (Matsis, 2011) as economic activity col-
lapsed by one-third, partly because of the withdrawal of Turkish Cypriots
and 47 percent reduction in gainful employment—from 253,000 in 1973
to 135,000 in 1975. Massive unemployment in 1974 was measured at
29.6 percent of the economically active population, as well as loss of pro-
ductive resources in all sectors, particularly heavy in tourism, agriculture,
mining, and transport in what was then a closely integrated economy.
The displacement of 160,000 Greek-Cypriots meant heavy dependence
of people on the state to provide means of subsistence. In contrast with
the conservative fiscal policies pursued from 1960 to 1973 characterized
by fiscal surpluses and very low government debt, the post-1974 policies
emphasized a radical change in fiscal policy, which became Keynesian,
expansionary with very high deficits financed from foreign borrowing.
The government pursued expansionary economic policies, implemented
large housing programs, provided incentives to the unemployed, and
expanded educational and health policies.
The dramatic economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s, referred to as
“the economic miracle,” was structured by a number of “external” factors
such as the Turkish occupation of the north since 1974 (Christodoulou,
1992). This fact, together with a concerted effort by the Government,
political parties, and trade unions, created the conditions for the eco-
nomic growth that was subsequently experienced in Cyprus, based on the
massive expansion of the model known as “mass tourism” (Anthias and
Ayres, 1983; Christodoulou, 1992; Panayiotopoulos, 1995, 1996). The
Greek-Cypriot “economic ethos” (Mavratsas, 1992), in Weberian terms
propelled accumulation, growth, and commerce, but was much premised
on the fact that land-ownership, commerce, and trade were dominated by
Greek-Cypriots.
Despite the socioeconomic transformations, up to 1974 the
postcolonial social class structure retained essentially the same pyramid of
wealth and income: the Church continued to be the largest land-owner
and expanded its commercial activities, whilst at the same time there was
a growth in the Greek-Cypriot commercial classes. An abrupt change
occurred in 1974: the Turkish military invasion and occupation of the
north and the mass expulsion of Greek-Cypriots in 1974, by default cre-
ated the preconditions for rapid (capitalistic) “modernization,” in what
Harvey (2003) refers to as conditions for “accumulation by disposses-
sion.” In spite of the severe drop in the GDP during 1973–1975 and
the sharp rise in unemployment and mass poverty, cheap labor was pro-
vided by the Greek-Cypriot displaced persons, forcibly expelled and living
in government refugee camps. The conditions of the rapid development
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2000–2002 to about 3,000 persons per year, reflecting the state of the
economic situation. It then began to rise again, in that is described as the
third wave, reaching a peak of 20,000 per year in 2006.
The third migration wave from Turkey to northern Cyprus started
in the 1990s and 2000s and is connected to the neo-liberal policies in
mainland Turkey and in the TRNC. The rise in unemployment made up
of property-less ex-small farmer communities, together with the ongo-
ing conflict in Turkey’s southeastern and eastern regions led to forced
migration from the eastern and the southeastern regions of Anatolia to
nearby cities such as Adana, Antalya, and Mersin. Meanwhile the regime
in northern Cyprus as a peculiar extension of Turkish territory provided
opportunities to work in the growing construction sector, which was the
most important leading sector for capital accumulation. Research from
a field-survey project in the walled city of Nicosia19 illustrates that the
processes of informalization and precariatization of labor was the basis for
intense capital accumulation in the third wave of migrants from Turkey
since 2000.
4
% Annual changes
0
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
–1
–2
–3
Year
7
Unemployment rate (%)
0
1996
1995
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Year
0.08
0.06
0.04
0.02
0
% of GDP
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
–0.02
–0.04
–0.06
–0.08
–0.1
–0.12
–0.14
Year
190
180
% of 1995 value (1995 prices)
170
160
150
140
130
120
110
100
1995
1999
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Year
Private consumption Annual real wage
[Source: Cyprus Labour Institute, INEK-PEO (2011), Cyprus Competitiveness under EMU, Nicosia
(authored by Elias Ioakimoglou)].
Conclusions
The model of economic development in Cyprus, particularly in the
context of a settlement, needs to be radically reconsidered. The most
important aspect of this challenge is to develop strategies for the social
and political forces of labor that illustrate the necessity of such an orienta-
tion. Drawing on research, social and political dialogue, and international
experiences of successful case studies is crucial; however, we must remain
critical and avoid replanting and copying. Free market principles do not
lead to a sustainable economic development; on the contrary, they are
the primary cause of the current situation and threaten to drag Cyprus to
depression. A political settlement in Cyprus should be considered to be
the beginning for rebuilding the society as a social entity for all, surpassing
the ethnic and racial divide. The socio-economic aspects of a settlement
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are too important to be left to mainstream economic and legal experts and
to entrenched economic and social interests. We need critical perspectives.
In the absence of a settlement, it is essential that future research must
examine further different aspects of social and economic interdependence
between Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots as well as all other commu-
nities that are present in an increasingly multicultural setting: education,
health, and social divisions and struggles taking place on both sides of
the country must be studied more closely. The transformations taking
place in the country and the region are radically reshaping the socioeco-
nomic, political, ideological, and cultural landscape. Also, it is crucial that
a critical political economy perspective integrates the Cypriot economic
processes within the wider socioeconomic and political transformations
in the context of the region and the globe. Further study is required
of the crisis in the euro zone and the imposition of austerity measures,
which is radically deepening the crisis, increasing migration from EU
countries causing an even more serious problem, such as from Greece.
Also, the situation in the northern part of the country needs to be closely
monitored; struggles are increasingly interconnected as ideas and move-
ments spread across the barbed wire. Moreover, critical political economy
perspectives of the new geopolitics hydrocarbon exploitation in the Mid-
dle East and Cyprus are urgently required; developing research agendas
on social and environmental repercussions and alternatives in sharing the
benefits and costs of the extraction of natural gas has yet to feature in
research or public debates. In the light of the current economic crisis,
which may last for some more time, these are prerequisites for envisioning
a country beyond the divide in a region of cooperation rather than impe-
rial contestations. As the holy scripts of economic orthodoxy collapse, we
must at least imagine alternatives.
The challenge of economic restructuring and sustainable development
in Cyprus has become immensely more difficult as the global economic
crisis had a very significant impact on the economy mainly through the
crisis of the banking sector. The exposure of the two large banks in Cyprus
to Greek public bonds and the bad debts expected through the operation
of their subsidiaries in Greece have given rise to unsustainable losses in the
banking sector and the need for their recapitalization through state sup-
port. However, international finance to the Cyprus state has been blocked
as a result of repeated adverse ratings by the international rating agencies,
citing as the main reason the state of the banking sector in Cyprus. The
Government of Cyprus has desperately tried to secure the required finance
through inter-state loans, an effort mainly directed to Russia, which did
not produce the required results. The unavoidable alternative has been an
official request by the government of Cyprus for financial support to the
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Notes
1. We would like to thank Umut Bozkurt, Gregoris Ioannou, Ron Ayres, and
Sotiris Kattos for their comments on an earlier version of this chapter.
2. See Constantinou (2008) and Trimikliniotis (2009, 2010).
3. See, for instance, Bryant (2010).
4. See “Economic Interdependence in Cyprus,” main findings and recommen-
dations, http://www.undp-act.org/data/articles/interdependence_report_
2011.pdf (accessed February 26, 2012).
5. This figure is attributed to the former leader of the Turkish-Cypriot
community Mehmet Ali Talat and is related to the mobile telephone sub-
scriptions and the numbers of motorized vehicles registered; see Halil Paşa’s
intervention in the debate, BILBAN-IKME (2008, p. 125).
6. In a landmark case, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on July 05,
1994, against the British practice of importing produce from northern
Cyprus. The ECJ decided that only goods bearing certificates of origin from
the Republic of Cyprus could be imported by EU member states. The deci-
sion resulted in a considerable decrease of Turkish-Cypriot exports to the
EU
7. See Demetriou and Vlachos (2007).
8. Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC) No 866/2004 of April 29, 2004
on a regime under Article 2 of Protocol 10 to the Act of Accession (OJ
L 161, 30.4.2004), http://eur-lex.Europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi
!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=304R0866R(01.
9. See ECRI (2005) Third Report on Cyprus, European Commission against
Racism and Intolerance, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, May 16, 2006 and
Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC) No 866/2004 of April 29, 2004
on a regime under Article 2 of Protocol 10 to the Act of Accession (OJ L
161, 30.4.2004).
10. See Communication from the Commission COM (2006) 551 final, Brussels,
September 25, 2006, at http://eur-lex.Europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?
smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&numdoc=506DC0551&lg=en.
11. We would like to thank Dr. Alex Apostolides for pointing out how important
interdependence is for the economy and society.
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Contributors
Editors
Authors
Note: The letter ‘n’ followed by the locators represents notes in the text.
accession of Cyprus to the EU, 11, 13, necessary for imperialist interests,
39, 79, 92–4, 137, 139–40, 94, 97
144–5, 148, 158, 185, 190–1, and partition, 9, 16, 91, 96–7, 163,
198–9, 218, 222 187, 195
Acheson Plan, 22, 89 reducible to imperialist interests,
Acquis, 9, 61 94, 97
Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi [AKP] and reunification, 16, 163, 185,
(Justice and Development Party), 189–90, 194, 201
12, 39, 93, 144–9, 150n9, and Russia, 91
150n10, 191, 193 and United States, 32, 34, 93–5
Agamben, Giorgio, 61, 66n21 annexation of Cyprus by Turkey, 6,
Agia Marina, 192 19n20, 75, 100, 105, 107, 116
Akıncı, Mustafa, 181, 192 Anthias, Floya, 34–5, 51–4, 225, 227
Ali, İhsan, 123–4, 133n5 anticolonial struggle, 8, 53
Althusser, Louis, 41n5, 53, 57, 65n14,
anti-communism, 106–65
65n19
anti-imperialism, 25, 36, 74–8, 81,
ANAP Anavatan Partisi (Motherland
94, 96, 154–5, 163
Party), 138, 142
See also İmperialism
Anastasiades, Nicos, 12, 187, 193,
199 Arabs, 12, 17, 27–8, 77, 87
Anderson, Perry, 5, 19, 32, 43, 94, 98 Archbishop of Cyprus, 49, 52–3, 70,
Ankara, 6–7, 10–13, 16, 18, 19n20, 76, 88, 100–1, 103–4, 106, 161,
21n45, 27–9, 33, 36–9, 57, 185, 189
58n14, 90, 125–7, 131, 138, Archiepiscopate, 101
169, 172, 174, 176, 182, 191, Armenians, 196
193, 197, 220 Asomatos, 192
Annan Plan, 6, 9–10, 12, 16–17, 39, Association of Turkish-Cypriot
91–7, 145–7, 163, 182–5, 187, Students, 172
189–90, 194–5, 201 Athens, 37, 43n19, 50, 53, 76, 105–6,
and British bases, 28, 32, 34 109–11
EU accession, 91–2 Atun, Hakkı, 178
imperialist critics of, 93–4 austerity measures/package, 7, 15–18,
and NATO, 6, 39 21n43, 36, 45, 220, 241, 245–6
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Kuzey Kıbrıs Genç İşadamları Derneği middle class, 7, 19n22, 50, 71, 154,
[GİAD] (North Cyprus Young 192, 203
Businessmen’s Association), 145, Middle East, 6, 17, 24–49, 33, 40,
176 44n32, 69, 76, 85, 87–9, 91–2,
Kyrenia, 103–4, 108, 110, 113, 202, 96, 218, 245
209, 211–12 migrants/migration, 3, 18, 19n10,
19n11, 219, 226–31, 241, 244,
Labor, 7, 43–4n29, 51, 65n20, 73, 246n12
94, 120–1, 132, 138, 158, 218, Milliyetçi and Halkçı Birlik
220, 225–7, 237–8, 240–2, 244 (Nationalist and Populist Unity),
aristocracy, 7 123
cheap labor model, 228–31 Müezzinoğlu, Ziya, 141–2
migrant, 3, 18, 19n10, 19n11, 219, Münir, Sir Mehmet, 121
226–31, 241, 244, 246n12 Mustafa Ibrahim Case, 20n26, 64,
precarious, 3, 19n21, 219, 230, 66n23
234, 244 Müstakil Sanayici ve İşadamları
Larnaca, 21n46, 202, 208, 211 Derneği [MÜSİAD]
Latins, 8 (Independent Industrialists and
Lausanne Treaty, 36, 169 Businessmen’s Association), 139
Left, Greek-Cypriot, 7–8, 10–13, 15,
Nalbantoğlu, Burhan, 124, 127
17, 29–30, 32, 52–3, 55, 60,
Nationalism, 12–13, 36, 50–1, 53–4,
70–5, 77–81, 93–4, 102–4,
59, 63, 65n10, 69–72, 75, 79,
108–9, 154–5, 161–4, 167, 183,
86–7, 113, 120, 155, 163, 165,
189–90
169–70, 171–4, 179, 184, 186,
Lilliputian states, 2–3, 47
188, 191, 193
Limassol, 79, 101, 202
NATO, 2, 6, 23, 28–9, 32–4, 36–7,
Luxembourg Summit, 139, 143
39, 54–5, 59, 64n9, 76, 87–91,
105, 107–11, 115, 176, 218
Macmillan, Harold, 126 See also Imperialism, British
Macmillan Plan, 111, 115, 126 imperialism
Makarios II, Archbishop, 104 natural gas, 23, 25–6, 41n6, 43n19,
Makarios III, Archbishop and 245
President of the Republic of Necati, Özkan, 122–4, 133n3, 133n5
Cyprus, 19n7, 20n27, 33, 37, 53, Neofytou, Averoff, 187
64n7, 76–77, 88, 90, 104–11, Neoliberal, 7, 17, 36, 218, 241–2, 243
113–14, 159, 161, 165, 189 Nicosia, 37, 42n9, 76, 79, 89, 102,
Manyera, Niyazi, 129 106, 109–10, 113, 121–3, 128,
Mari explosion, 14, 166, 199 133n3, 133n4, 134n8, 170, 172,
Maronites, 8, 186, 192, 196 181, 202, 209–10
Mason–Dixon Line in Nicosia, 128, Non-governmental Organization
134n8 (NGO), 208
mass movement/mass mobilization,
7–8, 13, 74, 76, 78–80, 105, occupation of Cyprus, 10, 29, 37, 50,
125, 127, 153, 221, 225 86, 88, 91, 95, 121, 158, 214, 225
Menderes, Adnan, 125–6 October Revolution, 101
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