Cyprus...was problematic from the beginning. The British had offered Cyprus to us if we joined WWI,eventually we joined in June 1917 and after the war the British decided to keep the island. They generally slightly favored the Turks,probably because the Greeks wanted independence and/or Enosis.
Later,the Turkish side wanted more priviliges,the two communities were at at various times and places hostile to each other,fights here,mobs there,then the junta of Ioannides in 1974 had Samson installed...
Makarios wanted Cyprus to be closer to the socialist countries of the Middle-East and the non-aligned,instead of NATO...
So Cypriot-Greeks who were with Samson and wanted to unite with Greece fought against the ones who supported Makarios,
the Cypriot-Turks wanted partition,in the chaos of the EOKA B coup and Greek-Cypriot infighting,Attila I and II were launched and we are were we are now.
The problem is,that people like MMM-E follow the AKP government line,that ignores Turkey's recognition and approval of Greece's right to have garrisons on the islands,back in the '30s and maybe 40s too. And then Bahceli wants the Dodecanese back. They have selective memory. They only remember the Treaties that suit them and ignore the following ones,that replaced them.