The Grand Game and Britain's Acquisition of Cyprus

Aşağıda yer alan çalışmamda üç soruya cevap bulmaya çalışacağım. 1. İngiltere 1878de Kıbrısı neden istedi? 2. Bu hedefe nasıl ve ne zaman ulaştı? 3. İngiltere Mısırı ilhak ettikten sonra artık bir askerî üs olarak Kıbrısa ihtiyacı olmadığını bildiği halde neden Kıbrısı elinde tuttu? Bu soruları cevaplarken tarihî gelişmelerin ana aşamalarının bir taslağını ve onların birbirlerine olan bağlılıklarını ele alacağım.

Büyük Oyun ve İngiltere nin Kıbrıs ı İlhakı

In my following exposition I will try to answer three questions (1) Why did Great Britain want Cyprus in 1878? (2) How and when did London achieve this task? (3) Why did Britain keep Cyprus even when London discovered that after the acquisition of Egypt it did not need Cyprus no longer from a military point of view? While answering these questions I give an outline of the main strands of the story and their interdependence.

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