In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours

Salâhi R. Sonyel

doi:10.37879/ttkbelleten.1162456

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Year 1978, Volume: 42 Issue: 168, 745 - 760, 20.10.1978

Salâhi R. Sonyel

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In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours

Year 1978, Volume: 42 Issue: 168, 745 - 760, 20.10.1978

Salâhi R. Sonyel

Abstract

The Cyprus Convention : Article I of the Convention of Defensive Alliance - better known as the "Cyprus Convention" - signed between the Ottoman and British Governments on 4th June, 1878, was as follows: "If Batum, Ardahan, Kars, or any of them shall be retained by Russia, and if any attempt shall be made at any future time by Russia to take possession of further territories of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia as fixed by the Definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms. In return, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan promises to England to introduce the necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the Government and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte in those territories. And in order to enable England to make the necessary provision for executing her engagements, His Imperial Majesty the Sultan further consents to assign the Island of Cyprus to be occupied and administered by England". The above Convention contained provisions of the highest political importance, for by it the British Government had entered into a formal engagement to maintain the integrity of the Turkish dominions in Asia against Russia. The general guarantee of integrity of Turkey incorporated in the Treaty of Paris of 1856 having broken down, Great Britain then acted alone. It was, according to J. W. Headlam- Morley and W. J. Childs of the British Foreign Office', a far reaching military commitment of a kind to which the British Government and Parliament had in those years been very averse.

Keywords

II. Abdülhamid, Cyprus Island, Cyprus Convention, England-Ottoman Relationships

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Primary Language	English
Journal Section	Araştırma Makaleleri
Authors	Salâhi R. Sonyel This is me
Publication Date	October 20, 1978
Published in Issue	Year 1978 Volume: 42 Issue: 168

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APA	Sonyel, S. R. (1978). In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours. BELLETEN, 42(168), 745-760. https://doi.org/10.37879/ttkbelleten.1162456
AMA	Sonyel SR. In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours. TTK BELLETEN. October 1978;42(168):745-760. doi:10.37879/ttkbelleten.1162456
Chicago	Sonyel, Salâhi R. “In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain Within Forty-Eight Hours”. BELLETEN 42, no. 168 (October 1978): 745-60. https://doi.org/10.37879/ttkbelleten.1162456.
EndNote	Sonyel SR (October 1, 1978) In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours. BELLETEN 42 168 745–760.
IEEE	S. R. Sonyel, “In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours”, TTK BELLETEN, vol. 42, no. 168, pp. 745–760, 1978, doi: 10.37879/ttkbelleten.1162456.
ISNAD	Sonyel, Salâhi R. “In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain Within Forty-Eight Hours”. BELLETEN 42/168 (October 1978), 745-760. https://doi.org/10.37879/ttkbelleten.1162456.
JAMA	Sonyel SR. In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours. TTK BELLETEN. 1978;42:745–760.
MLA	Sonyel, Salâhi R. “In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain Within Forty-Eight Hours”. BELLETEN, vol. 42, no. 168, 1978, pp. 745-60, doi:10.37879/ttkbelleten.1162456.
Vancouver	Sonyel SR. In the Light of British Foreign Office Documents: How Abdulhamit, the Ottoman Sultan, Leased Cyprus to Britain within Forty-Eight Hours. TTK BELLETEN. 1978;42(168):745-60.