The Political Social And Economic Development Of Northern Cyprus

Cyprus is one of the world's most intractable problems and one of large contemporary signficance. For it is a conflict of culturally distinct communities which lived together for centuries, first under Ottoman, and then British, rule until 1960. After much inter-communal strife they became geographically separate in 1974 as a result of the Turkish military intervention - the Peace Operation - to the great relief of the Turkish Cypriots.