One of the gravest case of human rights violations in the history of humanity had been experienced in Cyprus the period of 1963-1974, during which thousands of Turkish Cypriots were forced to flee their homes at Greek Cypriot gunpoint, hundreds killed or maimed. At times, babies and infants were rendered without milk and basic food, and without proper shelter.

On December 21, 1963, the Greek Cypriots, acting in accordance with the secret Akritas Plan (The full text of the Akritas Plan has been published as a UN Document A/33/115, s/12722 of 30 May 1978) attacked the Turkish Cypriots all over the island, destroyed the bicommunal Republic of Cyprus created in 1960 under the London and Zurich Agreements, and usurping the powers of the State, turned Cyprus, unconstitutionally, into a Greek-Cypriot state.

The Turkish Cypriot enclaves were besieged and subjected to a war of attrition. Turkey several times warned and called the world powers to intervene and only at a limited scope to intervene a Turkish millitary action. But when the contents of the interventions by the UN was of such little result and ethnic cleansing continued increasingly towards 1974. This illegal state of affairs continued until July 20, 1974 when the Turkish intervention, undertaken in discharge of the obligation and right emanating from the 1960 treaty of Guarantee, ended the racial attacks and prevented the annexation of the island by Greece.

Innocent mother and her children slaughtered by fanatic Greeks in 1974. The Turkish intervention was not soon enough to stop this massacre but put an end to many others.

Turkey executed its intervention rights as part of the 3 country (Greece, Turkey, UK) guarantee agreement to protect the rights of the islands muslim Turks who were under constant pressure and attacks since December 31, 1963. The reports of the Secretary-General of the U.N. to the Security Council and of impartial observers during that period bear clear testimony to those violations.