We prove a number of Turán and Ramsey type stability results for cycles, in particular, the following one: Let
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0<β
1/2−1/2n, and the edges of
K
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be 2-colored so that no monochromatic
Cn exists. Then, for some
q
((1−β)n−1,n), we may drop a vertex
v so that in
K
(2−β)n
−v one of the colors induces
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(2−β)n
−q−1, while the other one induces
Kq
K
(2−β)n
−q−1. We also derive the following Ramsey type result. If
n is sufficiently large and
G is a graph of order
2n−1, with minimum degree
δ(G)
(2−10−6)n, then for every 2-coloring of
E(G) one of the colors contains cycles
Ct for all
t
[3,n].