British Cyprus again in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. King Paul of Greece declared that Cyprus desired union with Greece in 1948. A referendum was presented by the Orthodox Church of Cyprus in 1950, according to which around 97% of the Greek Cypriot population wanted the union. The Greek petition and enosis became an international issue when it was accepted by the United Nations. The Cyprus Emergency was a military action that took place in Cyprus from 1955 to 1959. The Cyprus Emergency primarily consisted of a campaign by the Greek Cypriot military group EOKA to remove the British from Cyprus
Cyprus Turkish National Union Cyprus Turkish National Union The Cyprus Turkish National Union (, KMTB) was a conservative political party in Cyprus led by Fazıl Küçük. The KMTB was established in 1955 as a successor to the Cyprus is Turkish Party, which had also been established by Küçük. In the pre-independence elections in 1960 it won all 15 Turkish seats in the House of Representatives and all the seats in the Turkish Communal Chamber. The party had run opposed in the House seats in Nicosia, Kyrenia and Larnaca. In 1963 its MPs- withdrew from parliament following the outbreak of intercommunal violence, but continued to