Taking a glance at the last century, it is obviously seen that, even though the island seems to be out of the wars and the struggles in some points, the island itself just … Bloody Christmas (Turkish: Kanlı Noel) is a term used mainly, but not exclusively, in Turkish Cypriot and Turkish historiography, referring to the outbreak of intercommunal violence between the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots during the Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, on the night of 20–21 December 1963 and the subsequent period of island-wide violence[1] amounting to civil war. To install click the Add extension button. [6], The Republic of Cyprus was established as a bi-communal unitary state in 1960.