FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
A STUDY OF
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CYPRUS CRISIS AND TURKISH INTERVENTİON TO CYPRUS
SUBMITTED TO DR. ÇAĞDAŞ ÜNGÖR
BY
EMRE ERKUT ARGA
060300044
FALL 2012
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. ESSENCES OF CYPRUS CRISIS AND THE REACTIONS . . . . 2 A. JEOPOLİTİCAL İMPORTANCE OF CYPRUS . . . . . . . . 2 1. Global jeopolitical importance of Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Regional jeopolitical importance of Cyprus . . . . . . . . . 3 3.Jeopolitical importance of Cyprus towards Turkey’s Security . 3 B .THE APPROACH OF TURKEY AND GREECE. . . . . . . . . 4 1. Enosıs idea of the Greeks on the island. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Turkish intervention and its results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Basic ideal differences between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus...6 C. THE REACTIONS OF COLD WAR ACTORS . . . . . . . . 6 1. The reaction of Soviet Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. The reaction of United States of America. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 III. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
I. INTRODUCTION
«As you have been observing, our courage has not faded away after the Battle of Lepanto; there is a discrepancy between your losses and ours’. We ceded from you a land [referring to
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