Betrayal—The Other Side of the Cyprus Case

An Account of the Cyprus Issue and the UN Facilitated Settlement Process from 1960 to 2025

Mustafa Ergün Olgun

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031957413
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031957420
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book explores the little known root cause and nature of the Cyprus conflict;fills the huge gaps that have been, over time, airbrushed out of Cyprus’s postcolonial
history; traces the UN led settlement process from 1964 to 2025, sharing Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot positions at the talks; evaluates the performance of the UN in Cyprus; identifies the key reasons that have contributed to the failure of the talks; and sheds light on the needs of an equality-based, fair and sustainable settlement in the critical/strategic geography that Cyprus finds itself.

Table of contents

• Betrayal—The Other Side of the Cyprus Case
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• 1. Introduction—Nature of the Cyprus Issue and the Establishment of the Bi-communal Republic of Cyprus
• 2. Violation of the Constitutional Order, the Hijacking of the Republic and Exploitation of the Doctrine of Necessity
• 3. UN Involvement and the Implications of Security Council Resolution 186/1964
• 4. Turkish Cypriot Efforts to Return to the 1960 Constitutional Order
• 5. Years of Suffering and Uncertainty: March 1964 to 15 July 1974
• 6. Emergence of a New Situation: 15 July 1974 to 12 February 1977
• 7. Disillusionment and Parting: 12 February 1977 to 15 November 1983
• 8. Reaction to the Establishment of the TRNC and UN Settlement Packages: 15 November 1983 to March 1993
• 9. CBMs and Derailing: March 1993 to January 1995
• 10. Dark Shadow of the EU Membership Application and the S-300 Missile Crises: January 1995 to June 1999
• 11. Settlement Pushing and the Proximity Talks: June 1999–June 2001
• 12. The UN Comprehensive Settlement Plan: September 2001 to April 2004
• 13. Talat and Papadopoulos Era (24 April 2005–24 February 2008)
• 14. Talat and Christofias Era (24 February 2008–18 April 2010)
• 15. Eroğlu and Christofias Era (18 April 2010–17 February 2013)
• 16. Eroğlu and Anastasiades Era (28 February 2013–26 April 2015)
• 17. Akıncı and Anastasiades Era I: Until the End of the Crans-Montana Summit (26 April 2015–7 July 2017)
• 18. Akıncı and Anastasiades Era II: Following the Crans-Montana Summit, 7 July 2017–18 October 2020
• 19. Evaluation of the Federal Settlement Model
• 20. Tatar and Anastasiades Era: 17 October 2020–28 February 2023
• 21. Tatar and Christodoulides Era: 28 February 2023–22 March 2025
• 22. Conclusions