Definition of "pseudostate" []

• A state (geopolitical entity) which has many of the formal trappings of being an independent state, but has no real independence. (noun)

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• "Despite the fact that during 1974 Turkey invaded illegally the island of Cyprus, UK and Turkey signed an ageement in order to promote the pseudostate of the North -"