As the title says. POD of 1957-onwards
Forced deportation of all Turks from the northern part of the country. Then there's no reason for a Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to form. Turkey protests, but then the world says in response- "They're not even doing as bad to the Turkish Cypriots what you do to the Armenians and Kurds". 1.5 million Greeks were forcible removed from Turkey in the 1920s, and the Istanbul Pogrom in 1955 killed or forced to flee thousands. When Turkey has as bad a record on human rights and minorities, it makes it hard for them to protest how you treat Turkish minorities in your own country.
Forced deportation of all Turks from the northern part of the country. Then there's no reason for a Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to form. Turkey protests, but then the world says in response- "They're not even doing as bad to the Turkish Cypriots what you do to the Armenians and Kurds". 1.5 million Greeks were forcible removed from Turkey in the 1920s, and the Istanbul Pogrom in 1955 killed or forced to flee thousands. When Turkey has as bad a record on human rights and minorities, it makes it hard for them to protest how you treat Turkish minorities in your own country.
A pretty easy way would be for Junta in Greece to be expelled before 1973, if this happens there will be no invasion of Cyprus, there are many ways to do this the best one is if the counter-coup of King Constantine of Greece succeeds....
You are talking here about ethnic cleansing.
no, i believe he's talking about forced relocation
still bad, but not ethnic cleansing bad
Having Cyprus part of the Turkish Republic, or at least independent early on without a colonial period. In many ways, British rule most definitely worsened things as part of their "divide and rule" strategy. For what it's worth, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots were more related to each other before British rule than after, so in that sense apart from language and religion (and even then most Cypriots were familiar with both languages, and just like on the Mainland you had a bunch of funky stuff, like Greek-speaking Muslims and Turkish-speaking upright members of the Church of Cyprus) the division of Cypriots into Greek and Turkish Cypriots was largely a construct of colonialism. And that's before we get into the Maronites, the Armenians, and the Latin community, all due to Cyprus's peculiar position in the Middle East.
The Soviets take Cyprus prior to WWII's end and as OTL allow the British to weaken the Greek Communists but intervene to assist in evacuating the Greek Reds to Cyprus both for Propoganda re Humanitarianism and Solidarity/Socialist Brotherhood but also to secure and cement Cyprus as a Soviet Asset/Autonomous Oblast or SSR.
The Soviets take Cyprus prior to WWII's end and as OTL allow the British to weaken the Greek Communists but intervene to assist in evacuating the Greek Reds to Cyprus both for Propoganda re Humanitarianism and Solidarity/Socialist Brotherhood but also to secure and cement Cyprus as a Soviet Asset/Autonomous Oblast or SSR.
what?
how do the soviets get (what was at the time) British territory?
You don't even need to have them not split, as you should easily be able to merge it together afterwards with minimal changes if your goal is merely a united Cyprus.
When Cyprus joined the EU, two weeks before that vote there was a referendum vote to merge the island that the EU presumed and had great expectations of happening given this was still in the point of time when Turkey joining the EU was a realistic prospect with the Cypriot issue being one of the main problems hindering it.
However things didn't work out as intended as while the Northern Cypriots voted yes, the Southern ones said no so it didn't proceed. This was made worse by the EU leaders subsequently not vetoing Cypriot accession given one of the main benefits and assumptions they had wasn't being fulfilled (in addition to the economic fudging they knew was occurring). Every important political member of EU organizations from Council members to the President himself later said this was a horrible decision on their part (even before the economic crisis in '08) and if they could go back in time they would have changed it.
Thus you can have the EU have bigger balls and be willing to stand firm. I personally don't doubt that if Cyprus had their ascension rejected, they would have subsequently had another referendum where the island was successfully merged. Economic costs from integration and achieving economic parity weren't really an issue holding it back either as the EU was offering to subsidize it so that wasn't an excuse for the Southern Cypriots either.
You think joining the EU and the EU having bigger balls is going to make the Greek Cypriots vote yes? Have you been following how the Greeks in Greece have been voting regarding financial and fiscal matters, bailouts, and austerity? Not exactly people who are known for voting sensibly. And that's not a bash on Greeks, it's ALL human beings. Democracy sucks in case you didn't know it. That's why most countries try to limit what actually goes to a popular vote. The US puts NO issue to a popular referendum for instance, though individual states do.