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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.
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.
British Post World War II Military Campaigns - Cyprus: Fighting the EOKA (2014) Joseph, Joseph S. Cyprus: Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: From Independence to the Threshold of the European Union (St. Martin's, 1997). Kaliber, Alper. "Turkey’s Cyprus policy: A case of contextual Europeanisation."
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 ...
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.
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Cyprus and its predecessor states. Victory of Cyprus (and allies) Defeat of Cyprus (and allies) Another result* *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Cyprus, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
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 ...
[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.