The Road to Bellapais; The Turkish Cypriot Exodus to Northern Cyprus

Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 1982. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. xii, 256, [2] pages. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Inscribed on the fep. "To Mrs. Haviland with our compliments and appreciation for the effort of the IIE in connection with the training of the Turkish Cypriots in the States. (I am, also, one of the Fulbright grantees of the year 1969.) Nail Atalay Representative of the T.F.S. of Cyprus [Turkish Federated State of Cyprus]. New Your 10.25.82 and also signed by Rener Arkman (sp?) Director of Migration T. F. S. Cyprus. This is one of the East European Monographs series, No. CXXV and one of the Atlantic Studies Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change, No. 25. Pierre Oberling was a distinguished historian and ethnologist. Oberling was born in Strasbourg, Alsace (France) in 1929. In his youth he traveled widely with his family throughout Europe and the Middle East. He spent two years in Tehran, Iran, during World War II before immigrating to the United States in 1942. He earned a master's degree in French literature from Cornell University (1951), a master's degree in international affairs (1953), and a Ph,D. in Middle East languages and cultures (i160) from Columbia University. He taught European and Middle Eastern history at Hunter College (City University of New York), from 1963 to 1998. Oberling's became involved in documenting the political and cultural history of Turkish Northern Cyprus through two seminal works: The Road to Bellapais: The Turkish Cypriot Exodus to Northern Cyprus (1982) and The Heart of a Nation: A History of Turkish Cypriot Culture 1571-2001 (2007). The Turkish Federated State of Cyprus was a state on the region of Northern Cyprus declared in 1975 and existing until 1983, that was not recognized by the international community. It was succeeded by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is equally only recognized by the Republic of Turkey. Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus also referred to as Turkish immigrants are a group of mainland Turkish people who have settled in Northern Cyprus since the Turkish invasion in 1974. It is estimated that these settlers and their descendants (not including Turkish soldiers) now make up about half the population of Northern Cyprus. The vast majority of the Turkish settlers were given houses and land that formerly belonged to Greek Cypriots by the government of Northern Cyprus, who is solely recognized by Turkey. The group is heterogeneous in nature and is composed of various sub-groups, with varying degrees of integration. Mainland Turks are generally considered to be more conservative than the highly secularized Turkish Cypriots, and tend to be more in favor of a two-state Cyprus. The Cyprus dispute, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, or Cyprus problem, is an ongoing dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. Initially, with the occupation of the island by the British Empire from the Ottoman Empire in 1878 and subsequent annexation in 1914, the "Cyprus dispute" was a conflict between the Turkish and Greek islanders. The international complications of the dispute stretch beyond the boundaries of the island of Cyprus itself and involve the guarantor powers under the Zürich and London Agreement (Turkey, Greece, and the United Kingdom), the United Nations and the European Union, along with (unofficially) the United States. It entered its current phase in the aftermath of the 1974 Turkish military invasion and occupation of the northern third of Cyprus. Only Turkey recognizes the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, while there is broad recognition that the ongoing military presence constitutes occupation of territories that belong to the Republic of Cyprus. According to the European Court of Human Rights, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus should be considered a puppet state under effective Turkish control. Although the Republic of Cyprus is recognized by the international community as the sole legitimate state, the north is under the de facto administration of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, on which the Turkish Armed Forces are stationed. The 1974 Cypriot coup d'état, initiated by the Greek military junta, was followed five days later by Turkey's invasion, leading to the occupation of the northern part of the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus. In 1983, the Turkish Cypriot community unilaterally declared independence, forming the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a sovereign entity that lacks international recognition with the exception of Turkey, with which Northern Cyprus enjoys full diplomatic relations, in violation of Resolution 550, adopted on 11 May 1984 by the United Nations Security Council. As a result of the two communities and the guarantor countries committing themselves to finding a peaceful solution to the dispute, the United Nations maintains a buffer zone (known as the "Green Line") to avoid any further intercommunal tensions and hostilities. This zone separates the southern areas of the Republic of Cyprus (predominantly inhabited by Greek Cypriots), from the northern areas (where Turkish Cypriots and Turkish settlers are a majority).