In 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus with the pretext of protecting ethnic Turks, as was permitted by a treaty that allowed Greece, Britain and Turkey to intervene. However, Turkey was not content to stop after the Greek junta had been removed from Cyprus, they still continued with their plan to annex the Northern half of the island for what the current Turkish Prime Minister openly describes as "Lebensraum" (directly translated from German as "habitat"or "living space", later became a key component of Nazi ideology, the idea being that Germany needed to conquer and colonize large swathes of land to expand the "master race" across the continent). Turkey then proceeded to drive out the Greek Cypriot majority from the North, establishing the so-called "Republic of Northern Cyprus"
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