MAKARIOS’ INDEPENDENCE AND THE FAILURE OF NATO: THE FALL OF THE PARTNERSHIP REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS

This paper aims to explore the period after the collapse of the Partnership Republic. The Turkish Cypriot leadership on the island was not fully satisfied with Ankara’s policy towards the island during this period. And Turkey was not fully satisfied with its policy towards the island either. Furthermore, the Greek Cypriot leadership on the island was dissatisfied with the constant leadership by Athens. Likewise, Athens was dissatisfied with Makarios, who moved away from enosis. While the Greek Cypriot leadership wanted to pave the way for enosis during this period by making the Turkish minority on the island an ineffective minority, depriving it of all constitutional rights and pushing it aside, Turkey prepared some strategies to pave the way for Taksim. As a result, Makarios secured the influence of the NATO quartet (the United States, Britain, Turkey and Greece) on the island with his Moscow and Non-Aligned card and neutralised it for a while.