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For the Istanbul district, see Taksim Square

Taksim (Turkish for "division") was the rallying cry of Turkish Cypriots who supported a partition of the island of Cyprus into Turkish and Greek portions. Supporters of taksim felt partition was the only way to ensure peace and security and to prevent the assimilation of the Turkish population on the island, due to its majority Greek population.

For details on the dispute and eventual de facto partition, see Cyprus dispute and Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

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 ''For the Istanbul district, see [[Taksim Square]]''
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-'''Taksim''' ([[Turkish language|Turkish]] for "division") was the rallying cry of [[Turkish Cypriots]] who supported a partition of the island of [[Cyprus]] into Turkish and Greek portions. Supporters of ''taksim'' felt partition was the only way to ensure peace and security and to prevent the [[assimilation]] of the [[Turkish people|Turkish]] population on the island, due to its majority [[Greeks|Greek]] population. Taksim originally emerged as an intellectual idea within a segment of the Turkish Cypriot intellectual community in the 1930s prior to the outbreak of violence in the 1960s, but it attracted little support as the failure of the pro-Taksim Turkish Cypriot labour union showed in comparison to Turkish Cypriot membership of the pan-Cypriot PEO.<ref>''From The East'', Costas Yennaris (Pages 31-43)</ref>
+'''Taksim''' ([[Turkish language|Turkish]] for "division") was the rallying cry of [[Turkish Cypriots]] who supported a partition of the island of [[Cyprus]] into Turkish and Greek portions. Supporters of ''taksim'' felt partition was the only way to ensure peace and security and to prevent the [[assimilation]] of the [[Turkish people|Turkish]] population on the island, due to its majority [[Greeks|Greek]] population.
 For details on the dispute and eventual ''de facto'' partition, see ''[[Cyprus dispute]]'' and ''[[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]]''.