Abstract
The Cyprus question is a problem of legitimacy. Its origin lies in the breakdown in December 1963 of the 1960 partnership Constitution which destroyed the constitutional order on the island. From 1964 until 1974 Greek Cypriots assumed a commanding control of Cyprus and effectively won international recognition as the “Government of Cyprus”. In July 1974, the Turkish army intervened to prevent enosis engineered by an anti-Makarios coup d’etat designed by the Greek Junta in Athens. As a result, a de facto two-state reality has come about in Cyprus with the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) north of the Green Line and the Greek Cypriot Republic to the south. The search for legitimizing this de facto reality, based on a bi-zonal, federal solution continues under the UN Secretary-General’s good offices. The solution has so far proved to be elusive because the existing reality is a “non-hurting stalemate”1 and no quick or imposed solutions are feasible.
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