Abstract:

The roots of Turkey's relations with Cyprus stretches 500-year history. The Turkish presence in Cyprus started in 1571 when the Ottoman Empire conquered Cyprus and remained under Ottoman rule for 307 years. However, this situation changed after the 19th century and the British administration in Cyprus started in 1878. Turkish Cypriots, on the one hand, resisted the Greeks' struggle against Enosis, and on the other hand, struggled to get their social, political, and cultural rights in the Ottoman period. The governments of Turkey, while partially support the struggle of Turkish Cypriots from the Lausanne Peace Treaty to the period up to 1950th and showed efforts to maintain the equilibrium established in the Mediterranean. This situation started to change after the 1950s when the Democratic Party came to power. Greece's decision to support the Enosis request of the Greek Cypriots and in this context, in 1954 the issue to the UN in 1955 with the transport of violence began on the island of Cyprus is one of the important improvements that will change its also directed to Turkey's policy on Cyprus to Turkey. Cyprus is the Turkish Party, which was established with the support of the Democrat Party, facilitated the implementation of Turkey's Cyprus policies, and had a direct impact on the increase in the public support of the ruling party, which started to decline after 1958 in the Turkish public opinion.

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