- L3/ Although legal conunentators disagree on the legitimacy uniterinternational 1a!, of the €xtension of the iurkrsh intervention in August of Lgla.it rernains a fact that the sr.tuati.on was under cr.ose scrutily by the security:ouncil anar that body did aot at any point determine that the Turkish actiou $aa a)reacb of the peace or an act of aggression. The furthest that. the council wenttas to express concern at the situatio[ resurting fron "niritary operatiors,. (atern broad eDough to include the actiong of Greek as re1l. as Turkish forces) .,r'hich:oustituted a most serious threat to peace and security ia the Easterndediterraneau area, and to record "its formal disapproval 0f unirat€ral ntr.itaryrctioas utrdertakea against the Republic of CyPrus', (again a term whicb, being usedLn the plurat, was wide enough to cover Gree-k no ress tha! Turkish nilltaryrction). united Nations security councir resolutio! 360 (1974). ra ary case, theA/44/967 S121420 English Page11 Notes(continued) IQINotedated27July1965,fromtheTurkish Embassy inNicosia tothe Minister forForeign Affairs ofCyprus(concerning theamendment totheelectoral lawabolishing separate GreekandTurkish Cypriot electoral rolls). Seenotedated 24July1965fromtheBritish HighCommission inCyprustotheGovernment ofCyprus (objecting tothepassage ofthelawproviding forelections without divided electoral rollsbystating that"[a]soneoftheGuarantor PowerstheBritish Government protests against thisaction whichisinbreachofbasicarticles ofthe Constitution oftheRepublic ofCyprus."). Thesediplomatic notesandtheGreek Cypriot replies rejecting bothnotesarereprinted inUnitedNations document S/6569/Add.1 (5August 1965). 111SeereportoftheSecretary-General ontheUnitedNations Operation in Cyprus (S/6228, para.203)(11March1965)(noting the"inaccessibility ofthe areasinhabited entirely byTurkish Cypriots totheGovernment's law-enforcing authorities andofficials. TheorgansoftheStatearethuspowerless inthese areastoadminister justice."). Forexample, thisgovernment hasnevercollected anytaxesfromtheTurkish Cypriot community. Seeibid.,paras. 178-181 (describing theTurkish Communal Chamber's withdrawal ofauthority fromtheCyprus Inland Revenue Department tocollect theChamber's incometaxfromTurkish Cypriots, effective 18February 1965). Likewise, itscourtshavenotjudgedcases involving Turkish Cypriots. Seeibid.,para.193(InNicosia "[t]he workofthe courts, however, hasbeenalmostentirely confined tothosecaseswheretheparties involved areGreekCypriots. OnlyGreekCypriot litigants andGreekCypriot counsel haveattended thecourtstotransact business."). 121Thisphysical separation beganwellbeforethe1974Turkish intervention. SeereportoftheSecretary-General totheSecurity Council on UnitedNations operations inCyprus (S/5950, paras. 29-30) (10September 1964) (describing thecreation ofTurkish Cypriot enclaves afterDecember 1963, especially concentrated inNicosia anditsnorthern suburbs, anarrowstripastride theroadfromthesesuburbs toKyrenia, thetownofLouroujina, theLefkaregion andtwobeachheads atKokkina andLimnitis); reportoftheSecretary-General on recentdevelopments inCyprus (S/6569 andAdd.1and2)(29July1965)(describing a
**Analysis**
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