İngiltere’nin uyguladığı Kıbrıs politikalarının şekillenmesinde, adanın stratejik önemi

The changes in the British interests on the region throughout the process as well asthe strategic importance of the island was also influential. As a matter of fact, abandoning theBritish sovereignty policy on the island, the UK began to follow the policy that prescribes theestablishment 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 thepolicy 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 sovereignon 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 solutionattempts, which were not accepted by Greece, the parties had to diplomatically resolve theproblem with the Zurich and London Agreements in 1959, signed to establish an independentrepublic in Cyprus. Republic of Cyprus, declared in August 1960, could have lived only forthree years since the Greek Cypriot side acted for the Enosis in the first opportunity.