Split Island
E-book, Czech
Split Island
After the Second World War, the inhabitants of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a British colony since 1925, began to strive intensively for independence. However, not only the Greeks and Turks living on the island, but also their “motherlands” and Great Britain, had different ideas about the decolonisation process. From the mid-1950s, the conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots began to escalate to such an extent that it had a negative impact not only on Greco-Turkish relations, but also on the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, which was a strategically important area in the context of the Cold War. After gaining independence in 1960, the United States of America and the Soviet Union also became intensely interested in the situation on the island. The Soviet Union, together with Czechoslovakia, supplied arms to the island, thereby contributing to even greater political instability, which ultimately resulted in the division of the island into Greek and Turkish parts in 1974. Based on recently declassified archival materials, this monograph aims to re-evaluate the international dimension of the Cyprus conflict, not overlooking the activities of the Eastern Bloc states on the island, especially Czechoslovakia.
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