Ripped Apart - The Cyprus Crisis 1963-1974
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The Cyprus conflict is an ongoing dispute between Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Greece and Turkey. It has bedevilled not only their relations, but also those within the European Union, NATO and the United Nations, for more than 60 years.
Following a long insurgency against British colonial rule, Cyprus gained independence in 1960. Almost immediately, high tension emerged between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. A complex set of constitutional provisions and international treaties designed to safeguard the new state and countless attempts to resolve the conflict through diplomacy failed, and in 1963-1964 fighting erupted between the communities in Nicosia that would soon spread across the rest of the island. Volume 1 examines the local military build-up and a series of armed clashes that shook the island in 1964, and lays much of the background to the events that would follow in the 1970s. There is a page on Dave's blog dedicated to the Cyprus conflict. It includes book reviews and ideas for wargaming the conflict. |
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Wargaming the Cyprus Conflict
The road to Kokkina. This was a vital harbour for smuggling weapons to the Turkish resistance organisation, the TMT. The Greek National Guard tried to capture the harbour and would probably have succeeded had it not been for the intervention of the Turkish Air Force. That is how the game played out, with the superior Greek numbers and artillery starting to break into the TMT defences, when eventually, the air support arrived to devastating effect.
The road to Kokkina. This was a vital harbour for smuggling weapons to the Turkish resistance organisation, the TMT. The Greek National Guard tried to capture the harbour and would probably have succeeded had it not been for the intervention of the Turkish Air Force. That is how the game played out, with the superior Greek numbers and artillery starting to break into the TMT defences, when eventually, the air support arrived to devastating effect.
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