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In 1955, the resistance movement EOKA was formed in Cyprus in order to end British rule and annex the island to Greece.

It was gradually recognized, however, that enosis was politically unfeasible due to the presence of the Turkish community and its increasing assertiveness.

Instead, the creation of an independent state with elaborate power-sharing arrangements among the two communities was agreed upon in 1960, and the fragile Republic of Cyprus was born.