MAKARIOS’ ACHIEVEMENT AND THE FAILURE OF NATO: THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS PARTNERSHIP

Year 2024, Volume: 21 Issue: 83, 701 - 717, 30.09.2024

Cemal Yorgancıoğlu

https://doi.org/10.56694/karadearas.1435154

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the period after the collapse of the Republic of Cyprus partnership. The Turkish Cyp-riot leadership on the island was not fully satisfied with Ankara’s policy towards the island during this period. And Turkey was not fully satisfied with its policy towards the island either. Furthermore, the Greek Cypriot lea-dership on the island was dissatisfied with the constant leadership by Athens. Likewise, Athens was dissatisfied with Makarios, who moved away from Enosis. While the Greek Cypriot leadership were willing to pave the way for Enosis during this period by making the Turkish minority on the island an ineffective minority, depriving it of its constitutional rights, Turkey prepared some strategies to develop the Taksim policy. As a result, Makarios neutralised the influence of the NATO quartet (the United States, Britain, Turkey and Greece) on the island with his Moscow and Non-Aligned card for a while.

Keywords

Cyprus, Enosis, Akritas Plan, Non-Align Movement, Cyprus Problem

Ethical Statement

Ethics committee approval: This paper does not require ethics committee approval.

MAKARIOS’UN BAĞIMSIZLIĞI VE NATO’NUN BAŞARISIZLIĞI: ORTAKLIK KIBRIS CUMHURİYETİ’NİN ÇÖKÜŞÜ

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Ortaklık Cumhuriyeti’nin yıkılmasından sonraki dönemi incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Adadaki Kıbrıs Türk liderliği bu dönemde Ankara’nın adaya yönelik politikasından tam olarak memnun değildi. Türkiye de adaya yönelik politikasından tam olarak memnun değildi. Öte yandan, adadaki Kıbrıs Rum liderliği de Atina’nın sürekli liderliğinden memnun değildi. Aynı şekilde Atina da Enosis’ten uzaklaşan Makarios’tan memnun değildi. Kıbrıs Rum liderliği bu dönemde adadaki Türk azınlığı etkisiz bir azınlık haline getirerek, tüm anayasal haklardan mahrum bırakarak ve bir kenara iterek Enosis’in önünü açmak isterken, Türkiye de Taksim’in önünü açmak için bazı stratejiler hazırladı. Sonuç olarak Makarios, Moskova ve Bağlantısızlar kartıyla NATO dörtlüsünün (ABD, İngiltere, Türkiye ve Yunanistan) adadaki etkisini güvence altına aldı ve bir süreliğine etkisizleştirdi.

Keywords

Kıbrıs, Enosis, Akritas Planı, Bağlantısızlar Hareketi, Kıbrıs Sorunu

Ethical Statement

Etik kurulu onayı: Çalışma etik kurulu onayı gerektirmemektedir.

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