A Personal Message on Legal Status of TRNC

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is a legal state with all its proper institutions established in the predominantly Turkish Cypriot Northern Cyprus. Roughly half of the population here is the people who fled predominantly Greek South Cyprus during 60s and 70s. Back in 1974 Turkish forces entered North Cyprus in accordance with the tri-partite guarantee agreement among Turkey-Greece-UK to protect the Republic of Cyprus from being annexed to Greece and Turkish Cypriots from annihilation by the Greek Cypriot military forces actively supported by Greece. Since then, Turkey's role has been to support TRNC in order for it to self-sustain.

It's the Greek Cypriot South Cyprus who is the usurper of illegal power. Republic of Cyprus is legally a power-sharing state cooperatively established between Turkish and Greek populations of Cyprus but since 1974 hijacked by the Greek Cypriots. You might have heard that in 2004 there was a referendum following a UN-brokered agreement to rejoin both sides in a single state; Turkish Cypriots voted to accept but Greek Cypriots rejected it. You may not familiar with the history of Middle East and in paticular of Cyprus. The island of Cyprus has been inhabited by local people but, due to its strategic location, occupied and managed by foreign forces all through its history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cyprus).

Do note that the Island of Cyprus is only 75 km away from Anatolia, the mainland Turkey, but ~750 km from the mainland Greece. Of late, the Ottomans, the ancestors of the Turkish Cypriots, conquered Cyprus back in 1571 in order to get rid of the pirates of the Eastern Mediterranean (Venetian/Genovese) settled there; ottomans owned the island ever since till the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus. Ottomans agreed to leave management (not the title) of Cyprus on lease to UK late 19th century. Just before the end of the 19th century, UK annexed Cyprus but Ottomans couldn't resist due to internal problems and weakness of the decaying empire. To this date, being the descendents of the Ottomans, Turkish Cypriots are the legal owners of the Cyprus land. It's my conjecture that the Cyprus problem essentially is part and parcel to the holy Christian war waged against Islam in the medieval ages which still continues to this day due to the presence of the modern day Crusaders mentality.