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A Divided Island

Kypros Chrysostomides was born in 1942 to an ethnically Greek family in the village of Kathikas, a wine-producing community on the west coast of Cyprus with fewer than 500 inhabitants as of 2011.

At the time, the strategically located Mediterranean island was still a British colony populated for centuries by ethnic Greeks and Turks.

The nation gained independence in 1960 based on a power-sharing agreement between the two communities. The first post-independence leader, Archbishop Makarios, was a Greek with nationalist ambitions.

His efforts to drive the Turkish Cypriot community out of Cyprus destabilized the island and led to a Greek coup against him in 1974 and a Turkish invasion in response. This is the defining event of post-independence Cyprus, a nation that finds itself 45 years later still ethnically divided. A cease-fire line runs directly through the capital, Nicosia, separating the Turks in the north and the Greeks in the south.

“Cyprus became an open wound for the west to Russia’s benefit,” said Makarios Drousiotis, a Cypriot historian and author of several books about the country’s post-independence history. To get more information visit #Porn Pics.