Taksim (politics)
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For the Istanbul district, see Taksim Square. For the style of improvisation in Middle Eastern music, see Taqsim.
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Taksim (Turkish for "division") was the objective of Turkish Cypriots who supported a partition of the island of Cyprus into Turkish and Greek portions, a concept declared as early as 1957 by Dr. Fazil Küçük.[1] Turkish supporters of taksim felt partition was the only way to ensure that Cyprus would always have a Turkish presence and to prevent the assimilation or supposed ethnic cleansing of the Turkish population on the island, due to its majority Greek population who disagreed in accordance with the international community.
For details on the dispute and eventual de facto partition, see Cyprus dispute and Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
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- ^ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2006-06-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20060615004021/http://cyprus-conflict.net/narrative-main.htm. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
