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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by whimsicalism on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:39PM (#31403464)
> Another point of context to you: Russia's narrative for the invasion of Ukraine is copied word by word from the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

Super disingenuous considering that Greece was the initial country to invade and that multiple UN-brokered solutions to the problem have been supported by the Turkish side only to have been voted down by Greek cypriots. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annan_Plan

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Re:Sweden to Apply for NATO Membership by giorgosts on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:41PM (#31561485)
www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1617660/Boris-Johnson-Nato-expansion-Turkey-crisis-North-Cyprus-Sweden-update

Apparently, the Turks included the recognition of the occupied (by them) North Cyprus as one of the terms for agreeing to Sweden and Finland joining NATO.

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