Evuntiverse II/Cypriot massacre

The Cypriot massacre (Greek: Κυπριακή σφαγή) (Turkish: Kıbrıs Katliamı), or Mediterranean Catastrophe (French: Catastrophe méditerranéenne) was the mass slaughter and deportation of Cypriot people, mainly Cypriot Greeks, Cypriot Turks and Maronites in Cyprus (focused on Famagusta and Kyrenia), during the Republican invasion of Cyprus, by the French Third Republic, resulting with the death of about 20,000 to 40,000 people within the region.