User blog comment:Kingofawosmeness777/World War 3/@comment-3145713-20110519145946/@comment-4745396-20110519184755

Turkey invaded Cyprus for a reason. Namely because of the EOKA, a Greek Cypriot nationalist group who supported a military junta of Athen to annex Cyprus under Greece. This made Turkey invade the island, 37% of which is still under it's military occupation today.

Nikos Sampson who declared de facto President of Cyprus under the military junta of Athens later said, if Turkey had not intervened, then he would have had ever Turkish Cypriot on the island annihilated.

That is one of Turkey's key foreign policies, to defend the Turkish Cypriot in Cyprus. There is 35,000 Turkish troops still in Northern Cyprus.