By Philip Chrysopoulos July 20, 2025 Turkish invasion of Cyprus 50 years since Nicosia was divided and separated by a buffer zone. Credit: Marco Fieber, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0/Flickr The day of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, July 20, 1974, was the day time stopped for Cyprus, a day of infamy when the course of the nation’s history changed forever. For Cypriots, the ongoing crime of the Turkish occupation of their beloved country seems as fresh at each anniversary as it was then. It was a day that no Cypriot and no Greek will indeed ever forget. The eerie sound of...