text: again. Turkish Cypriot villages wereraided andburnt down;insomevillages, wholepopulations weremassacred andbulldozed intomassgraves. Asaresult, the Turkish Cypriot people werepushedintoenclaves wheretheyhadtoliveundera lIveritable siege", asdescribed bythethenUnited Nations Secretary-General inhis reportof10September 1964(S/5950) submitted totheSecurity Council. Between 1963and1974,theGreekCypriot side,initsruthless attempt touniteCypruswith Greece, violated everyhumanrightoftheTurkish Cypriot people. Thehistorical record inCyprusisreplete withexamples ofcrimes and atrocities committed bytheGreekCypriot administration during 1963-1974. The grievous suffering inflicted upontheTurkish Cypriot peopleiswell-documented in thereports oftheSecretaries-General ofthatperiod andneedsnofurther elaboration. Oppression anddiscrimination against theTurkish Cypriots continued until July1974whentheGreekCypriots, incollaboration withtheGreekGovernment, staged acoupd'etatinCyprusinordertoformalize theannexation oftheisland toGreece. Thousands ofCypriots, bothGreekandTurkish, diedduringthe turbulence thatfollowed thecoup. Theimminent dangerposedagainst theTurkish Cypriot people becameintolerable andtheTurkish Government wascompelled to intervene inCyprus toprotect thelivesoftheTurkish Cypriots. Thismilitary intervention wascarried outinaccordance witharticle 4oftheTreaty of Guarantee of1960. TheGreekCypriot representative's attempts todescribe this justified intervention asanlIinvasionll or"occupation" hasnobearing withreality_ /". Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryA/44/953 s/2L342 English Page 3 Turkey's intervertion in crrprus saved the Turlish clpriots from .ooihiratioribrought to an end a decade of systematic hunan rights viotations by the creekcypriotst and elininated a nost serious aource of tension a'"at iastability i,' theEastera Mediterranean. ft also preserved the iadeperderce of Cyprus by prevestingthe annexat.ioa of the islatd by Greece. ft was lot an ,,invasiol1,,, but a peaceoPeratio! which provided the Turkish crrrriots irith security of rif,e .nd broughtpeace and traaquillity to the isrand. one further by-proauct of this interventionrras the restoratiou of democracy in Greece.
analysis: The text appears to be a historical account of the Turkish Cypriot people's struggle for human rights and self-preservation in Cyprus. It describes the brutal treatment of Turkish Cypriots by the Greek Cypriot government, the Turkish military intervention, and its consequences. The text focuses on the humanitarian and political aspects of the situation, highlighting the suffering, oppression, and discrimination faced by the Turkish Cypriots. Given the context, it is likely that the text is more closely related to humanitarian issues than economic or scientific topics.