Currently, the island is split down ethnic lines between an internationally recognized Greek Cypriot south and a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, the result of Turkey's invasion in 1974 following a military coup in Cyprus that aimed for Greece to annex it and therefore unify the two.
В настоящее время остров разделён этнически на греческий сектор — международно признанную Республику Кипр на юге — и самопровозглашённую Турецкую Республику Северного Кипра.