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for the constitution of Cyprus started with an agreement on the
19 February 1959 in Lancaster House in London, between Turkey,
Greece, the United Kingdom and Cypriot community leaders
(Archbishop Makarios III for Greek Cypriots and Dr. Fazıl Küçük
for Turkish Cypriots). On that basis, a constitution was drafted
and agreed together with two further Treaties of Alliance and
Guarantee in Zurich on 11 February 1959.  Cyprus was accordingly
proclaimed an independent state on 16 August 1960.  Following
the failure of the Agreement in 1963 and subsequent de facto
military partition of Cyprus into Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-
Cypriot regions, the larger Greek-Cypriot Region, controlled by
the Cyprus Government, claims that the 1960 Constitution
basically remains in force, whereas the Turkish-Cypriot region
claims to have seceded by the Declarati