Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) Genel Kurulu’nun 14 Aralık 1954 Tarihli 750’nci Oturumu Işığında Türkiye’nin Kıbrıs Politikasının Değerlendirilmesi
Evaluation of Turkey's Cyprus Policy in the Light of the 750th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on December 14, 1954

Summary/Abstract: After Cyprus came under British rule in 1878, the Greek Cypriot community on the island began to demand enosis (union with Greece) from Britain. Britain, which gave Cyprus an important place in its strategy of protecting its presence and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, constantly rejected this demand. After World War II (1939-1945), Greek Cypriots thought that they could achieve their enosis goal through the principle of selfdetermination enshrined in the United Nations (UN) Charter established at the end of the war. For this reason, they asked Britain to grant the islanders the right to self-determination to decide their political future. In order to put pressure on Britain in this direction, Greek Cypriots requested Greece, one of the member states of the UN, to bring the Cyprus issue to the agenda of this international organization. Greece, which had desired to annex the island since the early years of the British administration and had been carrying out a number of activities in order to realize this desire, applied to the UN in 1954 with the demand that the island people be granted the right to selfdetermination under the influence of these efforts of Greek Cypriots. Due to its geographical proximity to Anatolia, having been under Ottoman rule for three centuries and harboring a Turkish population, Cyprus was an island that Turkey had been closely interested in since the early years of the republican regime. For this reason, Selim Sarper, the Turkish Permanent Representative to the UN, made a speech at the 750th session of the UN General Assembly on December 14, 1954 and announced Turkey's official position on the Cyprus issue.

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