Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Τουρκική εισβολή στην Κύπρο" in Greek language version.
[…] children were shot in the street and the Turkish quarter of Limassol was burnt out by the National Guard.
Authoritative figures for casualties during the two- phased military operation were not published; available estimates listed Greek Cypriot losses at 6,000 dead and Turkish losses at 1,500 dead and 2,000 wounded...
Greek/Greek Cypriot casualties were estimated at 6,000 and Turkish/Turkish Cypriot casualties at 3,500, including 1,500 dead...
The invasion cost about 6,000 Greek Cypriot and 1500-3.500 Turkish casualties (20 July 1974).
The partition of India was accompanied by a death toll variously credibly estimated at between 200,000 and 2 million. … In the Turkish invasion and partition of Cyprus, 6,000 Greek Cypriots were killed and 2,000 reported missing, and some 1500 hundred Turks and Turkish-Cyprioy killed.
The Greek Cypriots and much of the international community refer to it as an “invasion.
The international community found this declaration invalid, on the ground that Turkey had occupied territory belonging to Cyprus and that the putative state was therefore an infringement on Cypriot sovereignty.
Classified as illegal under international law, the occupation of the northern part leads automatically to an illegal occupation of EU territory since Cyprus' accession.
The crisis of 1974: The Turkish assault and occupation CYPRUS: IN SEARCH OF PEACE The crisis of 1974: The Turkish … UN was able to obtain a ceasefire on 22 July the Turkish Army had only secured a narrow corridor between Kyrenia and Nicosia, which it widened during the next few days in violation of the terms, but which it was impatient to expand further on military as well as political grounds.
Troops landed around Kyrenia, the main town on that coast, and quickly secured a narrow bridgehead. …
Σ’ αυτό το χρονικό σημείο, οι Τούρκοι ελέγχουν το 3% του Κυπριακού εδάφους, έχοντας δημιουργήσει ένα προγεφύρωμα, που συνδέει την Κερύνεια με τον τουρκοκυπριακό θύλακο της Λευκωσίας. (At this point in time, the Turks control 3% of Cypriot territory, having created a bridgehead connecting Kyrenia with the Turkish Cypriot enclave in Nicosia.
