| Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Slyomovics | The international community found this declaration invalid, on the ground that Turkey had occupied territory belonging to Cyprus and that the putative state was therefore an infringement on Cypriot sovereignty |
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| James Ker-Lindsay; Hubert Faustmann; Fiona Mullen 15 May 2011 | Peter Neville 22 March 2013 |
Eyal Benvenisti 23 February 2012.
29| Dr Anders Wivel; Robert Steinmetz 28 March 2013 | |
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| Faustmann, Hubert; Ker-Lindsay, James 2008 | British efforts to secure Turkey's removal from its surrogate territory after 1974 failed |
Classified as illegal under international law, and now due to Cyprus' accession into the is also an illegal occupation of EU territory.
| It became the , but Britain, like the rest of the international community, except Turkey, refused to extend diplomatic recognition to the enclave | In addition, since partition Turkey encouraged mainland immigration to northern Cyprus |
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| The occupied territory included 70 percent of the island's economic potential with over 50 percent of the industrial | Lesley Pender; Richard Sharpley 2005 |
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