I am copying text from the introduction information for brittish expats to the occuppied areas of Cyprus by the so called "British Residents Society of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus"
Northern Cyprus gained its independence in 1974. In that year Turkey intervened militarily – to deliver the Turkish Cypriots out of the hands of the Greek Cypriots who, in 1963, had forced the Turkish Cypriots out of the partnership government established by international treaties in 1960 according independence to Cyprus. After 1963 many Turkish Cypriots lived perforce in self-defended enclaves to preserve their liberty. In 1974 a Greek army-led coup promised to deliver the longed-for union with Greece (enosis). Turkey intervened as a Guarantor Power under the 1960 Treaty to prevent enosis and to restore the rights of the Turkish Cypriots. As a result of military operations, some 150,000 Greek Cypriots fled to the South and 50,000 Turkish Cypriots to the North. The Turkish Cypriot state was then established in what was about a third of the island.
one word, SHAME!