British MP: Cyprus peace prevails due to UK troops

THERE is peace in Cyprus due to the UK’s presence on the island, a senior British MP appeared to recommend throughout a debate on Afghanistan.By ELTAN HALİL

THERE is peace in Cyprus due to the UK’s presence on the island, a senior British MP appeared to recommend throughout a debate on Afghanistan.
Thomas Tugendhat, chair of the UK Parliament’s Overseas Affairs Committee, referred to Cyprus in an emotive speech to a packed Home of Commons on Wednesday during which he mentioned that it’s “not armies that win wars” however “persistence”.
“We all know that persistence wins,” he mentioned. “We all know it as a result of we’ve got achieved it; we all know it as a result of we’ve got delivered it. The chilly conflict was received with persistence; Cyprus is at peace, with persistence; South Korea, with greater than 10 instances the variety of troops that America had in Afghanistan, is affluent by way of persistence. So allow us to cease speaking about ceaselessly wars. Allow us to recognise that ceaselessly peace is purchased, not cheaply, however exhausting, by way of willpower and the need to endure. The tragedy of Afghanistan is that we’re swapping that affected person achievement for a second fireplace and a second conflict.”
Forward of the controversy Mr Tugendhat, a Conservative MP, wrote in an article for the New Statesman that US President Joe Biden had “deserted” the Afghan folks whereas Britain stood “idly by”.
Within the article he used the instance of Cyprus to again up his argument, writing: “Strolling out of Germany in 1950 would have resulted in a newly reformed Wehrmacht steamrolled by Soviet troops.
“Leaving Cyprus in the present day would danger one other explosion of violence on the Inexperienced Line. As an alternative of pulling out, we stayed in each.”
In an article revealed in The Occasions about how the UK stays “impotent within the face of US coverage” Mr Tugenhadt additionally referred to the island when he mentioned that Britain ought to “spotlight the strategic persistence we’ve got displayed in Cyprus and Estonia”.
Mr Tugenhadt’s suggestion that there is no such thing as a preventing in Cyprus due to the presence of British troops is prone to elevate eyebrows within the TRNC and Turkey.
Whereas the UK is a “guarantor” of Cyprus and maintains sovereign bases areas on the island, it refused to hitch Turkey to intervene following the Greek-backed coup on July 15, 1974, to unite the island with Greece, and the assaults on the Turkish Cypriot inhabitants.
Former MP Michael Stephen wrote in a 2004 report that in 1976 the UK Home of Commons Choose Committee on Cyprus discovered that Turkey had proposed joint Anglo-Turkish motion in 1974, however that the Labour authorities on the time “refused to take any efficient motion, although they’d troops and plane within the Sovereign Bases in Cyprus”.
The Choose Committee concluded that “Britain had a authorized proper to intervene, she had an ethical obligation to intervene [but] she didn’t intervene for causes which the Authorities refuses to present.”

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By ELTAN HALİL

THERE is peace in Cyprus due to the UK’s presence on the island, a senior British MP appeared to recommend throughout a debate on Afghanistan.

Thomas Tugendhat, chair of the UK Parliament’s Overseas Affairs Committee, referred to Cyprus in an emotive speech to a packed Home of Commons on Wednesday during which he mentioned that it’s “not armies that win wars” however “persistence”.

“We all know that persistence wins,” he mentioned. “We all know it as a result of we’ve got achieved it; we all know it as a result of we’ve got delivered it. The chilly conflict was received with persistence; Cyprus is at peace, with persistence; South Korea, with greater than 10 instances the variety of troops that America had in Afghanistan, is affluent by way of persistence. So allow us to cease speaking about ceaselessly wars. Allow us to recognise that ceaselessly peace is purchased, not cheaply, however exhausting, by way of willpower and the need to endure. The tragedy of Afghanistan is that we’re swapping that affected person achievement for a second fireplace and a second conflict.”

Forward of the controversy Mr Tugendhat, a Conservative MP, wrote in an article for the New Statesman that US President Joe Biden had “deserted” the Afghan folks whereas Britain stood “idly by”.

Within the article he used the instance of Cyprus to again up his argument, writing: “Strolling out of Germany in 1950 would have resulted in a newly reformed Wehrmacht steamrolled by Soviet troops. 

“Leaving Cyprus in the present day would danger one other explosion of violence on the Inexperienced Line. As an alternative of pulling out, we stayed in each.”

In an article revealed in The Occasions about how the UK stays “impotent within the face of US coverage” Mr Tugenhadt additionally referred to the island when he mentioned that Britain ought to “spotlight the strategic persistence we’ve got displayed in Cyprus and Estonia”.

Mr Tugenhadt’s suggestion that there is no such thing as a preventing in Cyprus due to the presence of British troops is prone to elevate eyebrows within the TRNC and Turkey.

Whereas the UK is a “guarantor” of Cyprus and maintains sovereign bases areas on the island, it refused to hitch Turkey to intervene following the Greek-backed coup on July 15, 1974, to unite the island with Greece, and the assaults on the Turkish Cypriot inhabitants.

Former MP Michael Stephen wrote in a 2004 report that in 1976 the UK Home of Commons Choose Committee on Cyprus discovered that Turkey had proposed joint Anglo-Turkish motion in 1974, however that the Labour authorities on the time “refused to take any efficient motion, although they’d troops and plane within the Sovereign Bases in Cyprus”. 

The Choose Committee concluded that “Britain had a authorized proper to intervene, she had an ethical obligation to intervene [but] she didn’t intervene for causes which the Authorities refuses to present.”