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Ethnographic map of Cyprus according to the 1960 census.
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| Conflict | Turkish invasion of Cyprus | | Date | July � August 1974 | | Location | Cyprus | | Result | Turkish military victory
Landing of Turkish troops in the northern part of Cyprus on July 20, 1974.
Fall of the Greek military junta in Athens three days later, on July 23, 1974.
Declaration of independence of the (internationally unrecognised) Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on November 15, 1983 on Turkish occupied Northern Cyprus. | Turkey
Turkey Turkish Cypriots | Cyprus
Greece | Turkey Lt. Gen. Nurettin Ersin
Turkey Maj. Gen. Bedrettin Demirel
Turkey Maj. Gen. Osman Fazıl Polat
Turkey Brig. Gen. Süleyman Tuncer
Turkey Brig. Gen. Sabri Demirbağ
Turkey Brig. Gen. Sabri Evren | Cyprus Brig. Gen. Michael Georgitsis
Cyprus Lt. Gen. George Karayannis
Cyprus Col. Konstantinos Kombokis
Greece Col. Nikolaos Nikolaides | Turkey:
* 40,000 troops
* 20,000 Turkish Cypriot fighters
* 200 M47 and M48 tanks
* M107, M108 and M110 self-propelled howitzers
* M101, M114 and M115 howitzers
* M113 APCs
* Fletcher, Sumner and Gearing class destroyers
* GUPPY IA/IIA/III class submarines
* F-5, F-84F, F-100, F-102 and F-104 combat aircraft
* C-47, C-130 and C-160 transport aircraft
* UH-1 Iroquois helicopters | Cyprus:
* 5,000 troops
* 35 T-34 tanks
* Ordnance QF 25 pounder
Greece:
* 2,000 troops
* 20 Nord 2501 Noratlas and 10 C-47 Dakota transport aircraft | Turkish Cypriots:
340 killed
1,000 wounded
Turkey:
498 killed
1,200 wounded
20 aircraft destroyed
Total:
838 killed
2,200 wounded: | Cyprus:
309 killed
1,141 wounded
909 missing
Greece:
88 killed
148 wounded
83 missing
Total:
397 killed
1,289 wounded
992 missing |
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The Turkish invasion of Cyprus ( ), launched on 20 July 1974, was a Turkish military invasion in response to a Greek military junta backed coup in Cyprus. It is known in Turkey as the Cyprus Peace Operation ( ), Cyprus Operation (Kıbrıs Harekâtı) or by its Turkish Armed Forces code name Operation Atilla (Atilla Harekâtı).
The coup, staged by the Cypriot National Guard in conjunction with EOKA B, deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed Nikos Sampson in his place.
More than one quarter of the population of Cyprus was expelled from the occupied northern part of the island where Greek Cypriots constituted 80% of the population. There was also a flow of roughly 60,000 Turkish Cypriots from the south to the north after the conflict. The Turkish invasion ended in the partition of Cyprus along the UN-monitored Green Line which still divides Cyprus today. In 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) declared independence, although Turkey is the only country which recognises it.
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