A NEW BREAKTROUGH IN CYPRUS PROBLEM WITHIN THE FRAME OF TURKO-GREEK RELATIONS (1954-1960)

USA has supported rightist parties in Turkey and Greece to step up to power during the cold war era where it considered to be significant for the defense of the Western block through the Truman and Marshall aids. Thereby requests in the satellite states of the Soviet Union where these two countries Turkey and Greece has furnished USA’s support against the revisionist are surrounded by. Hence, during 1950-1960, the center right Elinikos Sinagermos (Greece Revival) party of Greece under its leader named Alexandros Papagos and the Etniki Rizospastiki Enosis (Radical National Unity) Party and the rightist Democrat Party of Adnan Menderes in Turkey have stepped up to power. The Balkan Treaty Organization which was signed between Turkey and Greece in 1953 and Bled Agreement which was signed in 1954 have only remained as mere friendship agreements under the influential shadow of 6-7th of September 1955 events. In this study, bringing Cyprus problem to the agenda again, how government parties in Turkey and Greece have perceived the Cyprus problem and the process leading to the London and Zurich agreements are reviewed.