Research Article

CYPRUS POLICIES OF THE UK AND TURKEY DURING THE COLD WAR (1955-1964)

Volume: 17 Number: 34 September 8, 2017
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CYPRUS POLICIES OF THE UK AND TURKEY DURING THE COLD WAR (1955-1964)

Abstract

The changes in the British interests on the region throughout the process as well as

the strategic importance of the island was also influential. As a matter of fact, abandoning the

British sovereignty policy on the island, the UK began to follow the policy that prescribes the

establishment of an independent state in Cyprus in the midst of 1950. Until 1955, Turkey,

which did not see Cyprus as a problem to be solved in Turkish foreign policy, changed the

policy in a radical way because of this development. In the case of the British withdrawal,

Turkey first started to defend the thesis of granting the island to itself as the former sovereign

on the island, and afterwards defended the thesis of partition. Thus, at the request of the UK,

Turkey acknowledged that it was a party to Cyprus. At the end of the four-year British solution

attempts, which were not accepted by Greece, the parties had to diplomatically resolve the

problem with the Zurich and London Agreements in 1959, signed to establish an independent

republic in Cyprus. Republic of Cyprus, declared in August 1960, could have lived only for

three years since the Greek Cypriot side acted for the Enosis in the first opportunity.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

September 8, 2017

Submission Date

March 23, 2017

Acceptance Date

July 26, 2017

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 17 Number: 34

Chicago
Savrun, Ergenekon, and Melih Tınal. 2017. “SOĞUK SAVAŞ DÖNEMİNDE İNGİLTERE VE TÜRKİYE’NİN KIBRIS POLİTİKALARI (1955-1964)”. Çağdaş Türkiye Tarihi Araştırmaları Dergisi 17 (34): 349-71. https://izlik.org/JA99JC76CN.