1. Britain and the 1960 Cyprus Accords: A Study in Pragmatism
- Author:
- Michael Moran
- Publication Date:
- 05-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Global Political Trends Center
- Abstract:
- One of the main factors that led directly to the present status quo in Cyprus tends to be forgotten. This was the extraordinary display of timidity on the part of Great Britain in the 1960s when confronted with determined Greek Cypriot attempts to make Cyprus Greek. And, needless to say, the subsequent forceful division of the island by Turkey in 1974 should always be seen in this earlier context: not, that is, as some kind of unforeseeable interruption in the island's natural and peaceful progression towards its Hellenic 'redemption'; least of all as the result of a brutal and arbitrary interference in a sovereign state on the part of a 'foreign power', both of which notions still circulate among many Greeks and their political sympathisers.
- Topic:
- Politics
- Political Geography:
- Britain, Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus