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Why do Greek Cypriots call Turkey the aggressor?

The Greek Cypriots suspended peace talks with Turkish Cypriots and threatened to block Turkey’s EU accession talks after Turkey sent a hydrocarbon survey ship off the Greek Cypriot shore.
An illuminated flag of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is recognised only by Turkey, is seen overlooking Nicosia March 12, 2014. Greek and Turkish Cypriots have lived estranged for decades. A power-sharing government crumbled soon after independence from Britain in 1960 and the island has been divided since a Greek Cypriot coup was followed by a Turkish invasion of the north in 1974. Four decades on, a United Nations-controlled buffer zone splits Cyprus east to west, with Cyprus

Since the 1950s, there has been bad blood between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus. Turkey intervened in 1974 after a coup staged by supporters of union with Greece; the conflict has been frozen since then. Greek Cyprus joined the European Union in May 2004, only a week after the Greek Cypriot population by a decisive majority voted down the UN plan for the reunification of the island, adding to the complication of the conflict. EU-member Greek Cyprus has strengthened its international position at the cost of Turkish Cypriots.

The Greek Cypriot government therefore considered it to be its indisputable right to negotiate with foreign countries and international companies to explore and exploit the natural resources of the island without reaching an agreement with the Turkish Cypriots. In protest of that Greek-Cypriot approach, Turkish Cypriots signed an agreement with Turkey in 2011 calling for Ankara to prevent any unilateral move by the Greek Cypriot administration to explore hydrocarbon resources around the island, saying its natural resources should be exploited in a fair manner under a united Cyprus.

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