Abstract:

The military coup that has happened in Turkey on May 27, 1960 has naturally different meanings apart from the collapse of Democrat Party government led by the President Adnan Menderes for ten years. The unknown and discussed negative aspects, only known by a small group, of the above-mentioned coup has got experienced unfortunately in Cyprus. The fact that the EOKA terrorist organization founded in Athens, and backed by Greece made assaults against the British authority, then the Greek Cypriots who haven’t helped the EOKA, and finally against the Turkish Cypriots so as to make the island Hellenize in the light of Enosis utopia reasons the Turkish Cypriots to lose the security of the property, life, and the decency. Despite the fact that Turkish Cypriots have established some local and amateur organizations against the EOKA before November 15, 1957, the professional and effective on all the island to be, Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT) gets established, and backed by Turkey in the light of logistics, command staff, infrastructure, and military training so as to defend Turkish Cypriots’ rights against the EOKA. Subsequent to the coup in Turkey, TMT is named to be Menderes’ Private Army, and all the military assistance for TMT stops, and finally all the military activities comes to the end till everything is all clear. As a result, Greek Cypriot attacks start on December 21, 1963 in the frame of Akritas Plan to kill all the Turkish Cypriots living on the island. This scientific study will focus on how Turkish Cypriots get affected negatively after 1960 due to the coup occurred in Turkey.

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