>>813084Cyprus was a pretty unstable multi-ethnic state before the Turkish intervention, there were mass violence on nationality basis, to the point that the republic was overthrown by the greek ultranationalists. That gave the first pretext for the intervention.
After the first Turkish intervention capitulating the junta, they did launch a second intervention that is controversial, dividing the nation into 2 regions on the basis of national identity, perhaps for their side it was justified to "prevent" any future violence (or events like this coup) between the greeks and turks.