WAS CYPRUS EVER REALLY UNITED?

Abstract

It is easy to take the stance that “Partition is right” or “Partition is wrong” without carefully considering the reasons leading to such division. The Cyprus problem could be examined as a test case, which has been resolved by dividing the island and its two main communities. To understand how the formula of division worked in Cyprus, it is necessary first to look at the situation there, both pre- and post-Independence.

References

1. 1 Parliamentary Debates, (Hansard), 19 Dec. 1956, vol. 562, No. 32. Col 1272-1276.
2. 2 Averoff, Evangelos, Lost Opportunities, p. 243.
3. 3 British Official Document FO 371/136293, dated 6 August 1958.
4. 4 Averoff, op.cit. 237.
5. 5 Hill, Sir George, A History of Cyprus, Vol. IV, p. 488.
6. 6 Markides, Kyriacos C., The Rise and Fall of the Cyprus Republic, pp. 26-27.
7. 7 Ibid, p. 31.
8. 8 See for instance FO 371/136414-152864.

9. 9 Clerides, Glafcos, Cyprus : My Deposition Vol. 1.
10. 10 Clerides, Cyprus: My Deposition Vol. III, pp. 204 & 206.
11. 11 Markides, op.cit, p. 154.
12. 12 Ibid, p. 145.
13. 13 Ibid, p. 147.
14. 14 Clerides, Cyprus : My Deposition, Vol. 1.
15. 15 Ibid, p. 21.
16. 16 Ibid, pp. 23-24.
17. 17 Ehrlich, Thomas, Cyprus, 1958-1967, p. 39.
18. 18 Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon, KCB, in his Introduction to a seminar held in London on Two Peoples and Two States in Cyprus, 16 February 2001.
19. 19 Oberling, Pierre, The Road to Bellapais, p. 121.
20. 20 Kissinger, Henry, Cyprus, a Case Study in Ethnic Conflict, p. 237.