ТЕРОРИЗМ НА КІПРІ В КОНТЕКСТІ БЛИЗЬКОСХІДНОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ 1970-1980-Х РР.
TERRORISM IN CYPRUS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MIDDLE EAST SECURITY, 1970–1980S

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the Middle East terrorism as a regional problem in the 1970-1980s. Cyprus has a great geopolitical and strategic significance for all regional subjects and global actors. Therefore, the island became an arena of the terroristic activity since the mid-1970s. An Islamic terrorism in Cyprus was analyzed as an integral part of the Middle East regional system. The paper focuses on the Cyprus government’s home policy in the context of the Middle East security and its international contacts with principal regional countries as a main factor of the terroristic activity in Cyprus. The terroristic acts committed by the different the Muslim groups, special operations conducted by Israel to neutralized them and the Western countries` positions were researched in the paper. The article is based on the US documents and the world press. Several aspects of the terroristic activity in Cyprus could be distinguished. The first aspect presents problems of the relations between Cyprus and the Arabic countries. Due to the PLO militants` activity the Cyprus government was hurter by a military conflict with grave political consequences. The balance in relations between Cyprus and Muslim East was broken for a long time. Egypt threatened Cyprus with the international recognition of the Turkish Federation of the Northern Cyprus. The second root of the terroristic problem of Cyprus was based on the friendly ties with PLO. An island turned into a key-point of arms smuggling from Europe to the Middle East. This fact deteriorated Cyprus relations with Israel and NATO countries.

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