Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Despite the opposition of the Turkish Cypriot political leadership to the war, by 1918 approximately 11% of the recruits were members of the Turkish Cypriot community. On 18 October, special legislation banned emigration for Cypriot males of conscription age in order to halt the mass migration of Cypriots to the USA.
The Cyprus Regiment was a military unit of the British Army. Created by the British Government during World War II , it was made up of volunteers from the Greek Cypriot , Turkish Cypriot , Armenian, Maronite and Latin inhabitants of Cyprus , but also included other Commonwealth nationalities.
The Cyprus National Guard High Command had planned a massive island-wide assault on the Turkish-Cypriot enclaves of Cyprus, in the event of a Turkish invasion, so as to quickly eliminate these enclaves as potential footholds for a bridgehead. The initial plan (drawn up by Georgios Grivas in 1964) was given the codename "Aphrodite One" and ...
The confrontation prompted widespread intercommunal fighting in December 1963, after which the Akritas Plan was put into motion and Turkish Cypriot participation in the central government ceased on December 23, 1963, when all Cypriot Turks from the lowest civil servants to ministers, including the Turkish Vice-President Dr. Fazıl Küçük were ...
The Cyprus Emergency [note 1] was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. [8]The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in 1955.
Cyprus in World War II (1 C, 2 P) E. EOKA ... Turkish invasion of Cyprus (2 C, 31 P) U. United Nations operations in Cyprus ... Pages in category "Military history of ...
[13] At the beginning of World War II the Turkish Air Force consisted of some 370 aircraft of all types, 450 pilots and 8,000 men. [14] During the war Turkey sent pilots to Great Britain for training purposes. 14 are known to have died in Great Britain.
The Cyprus internment camps were camps maintained in Cyprus by the British government for the internment of Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy. There were a total of 12 camps, which operated from August 1946 to January 1949, and in total held 53,510 Jews.