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.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | September 8, 2017 |
Submission Date | March 23, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 17 Issue: 34 |