Alexis, if the Turkish army withdrew to Turkey the situation would be even worse than in the 1960's. The plan back then was to take control of the island before Turkey could intervene, the plan would be the same now except you'd be considered to be within your rights to attack TC's this time. Think of the UN and EU resolutions condeming Turkeys intervetion and the TRNC since 1974, legally there is nothing between GC occupying TC land except the Turkish army.
If the Turkish army across the meditterenean didn't deter GC 30 years ago, why should it now?
There's a big difference between what happened 30 years ago and what you are saying could happen now.
In '74 the coupists did take control of the island but did not impinge (in any meaningful way) on the TC enclaves until Turkey intervened. This is a well documented fact backed up by sources from UNFICYP as well as others. That is not to say that there was no intent to impinge on those enclaves, it just did not happen until Turkey intervened.
Turkey's military might then was not the same as now, and the coupists were led to believe that they had the backing of the Greek Junta and therefore the Greek armed forces. Unfortunately for them what they didn't bank on was the collapse of the Junta within days of the coup leaving a power vacuum in Greece and a lack of timely support from Greece (it was the second war before any sizeable Greek forces mobilised and these were under Karamanlis' administration which was conducting round the clock talks with the Turkish government to stop the fighting by that time). This is when Turkey chose to strike. She had 11 years to wait for a chance to strike (and some experts believe to build up her military capability to a good enough standard to intervene) and those coupist d!ckheads gave her the perfect opportunity to do so. It was not an accident.
What you are suggesting would happen now without the Turkish Army would demand a pre-meditated attack on a well-defined area of land against an organised force (the TC forces) with almost certainly no backing from Greece (imagine how much better Turk-Greek relations would get if Turkey removed her troops from Cyprus).
It is almost inconceivable that this could happen imo.
Think of the UN and EU resolutions condeming Turkeys intervetion and the TRNC since 1974, legally there is nothing between GC occupying TC land except the Turkish army.
I find this statement rather ironic since Turkish troops are 'illegally' in Cyprus, perhaps I'm reading it wrong. Legally there is nothing between GC occupying TC land (by which i take it you mean the TRNC) Turkish army or not. The RoC's attempts to do so by force in either case would lead to war and NATO intervention imo, it would simply be a stupid idea.
