On 13 and 14 January 2010, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman visited Greek Cyprus. (Israeli FM begins official visit )
In July 2011, at the Cypriot naval base at Zygi near Limassol, there was a massive explosion of munitions.
The munitions had been confiscated from a ship heading to Syria and had been stored close to Cyprus's largest power station. 13 people were killed and the power station was destroyed. (MOSSAD AND CYPRUS EXPLOSION)
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In the past, Cypriot politicians spoke out against Israeli military attacks on Palestine and Lebanon; but now things appear to have changed.
In September 2011 Israel asked Cyprus to permit the stationing of its aircraft at the Andreas Papandreou airbase in Paphos.
In January 2012, Israel and Cyprus signed two defense agreements which Cypriot Minister of Defense Demetris Eliades said "set the basis for the further development of relations in the area of defense cooperation."
On 11 July 2011, there was a massive explosion at the Cypriot naval base at Zygi.
At Zygi, in 1998, the arrest took place of two agents of Israel's Mossad.
According to Machi newspaper, the Mossad spy ring included Cypriots and fed information about Cypriot weapons systems and installations to Mossad and Britain's MI6.
The "Mossad men were captured at a sensitive time when Cyprus was threatening to place Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles as protection against Turkish jets at a base the Mossad agents were believed to be monitoring.
"It was coupled with reports that Israel had been training Turkish pilots on how to avoid the SAM missiles."
"Yesterday, Netanyahu was all set to challenge Lebanon's rights to parts of the Mediterranean gas and oil basin in a U.N. standoff, hoping to get the backing of the 'civilized world' behind the claims, which he fully intended to stake-out, believing that he had the Cypriot government's backing.
"According to the Lebanese news site Al-Manar, the government in Cypress expressed a willingness to negotiate with Tripoli over the position of what is known as 'point 23.'
"Today the arms dump of confiscated Iranian/Hezbollah arms explodes, taking-out the heads of Army and Navy."
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"A fire broke out inside the administration building but was quickly put out. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear..."
This result will damage Turkey’s membership talks with the European Union.
The National Unity Party, led by Dervish Eroglu, won 44% of the vote, giving it 26 of the 50 seats.
The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) won only 29% of the vote.
Mehmet Ali Talat, who is linked to the losing Republican Turkish Party, remains as president.
Talat led the campaign in favour of the UN’s Annan plan to reunite Cyprus in 2004.
But the Greek-Cypriots rejected the plan in a separate vote.
Turkey’s EU membership is opposed by Greece, France and Germany among others.
Britain has two important military bases on Cyprus.
The operation of these bases was guaranteed in the Cypriot constitution, when Cyprus became independent in 1960.
Most of the Greek Cypriots want to be rid of these bases.
In October 2007, Britain signed an agreement with Turkey, the 'enemy' of the Greek Cypriots.
This agreement is about:
1. Supporting Turkey’s EU accession 2. Helping to end the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots 3. Deepening the UK-Turkey defence relationship, including within the framework of NATO.
"The Greek Cypriot government is reconsidering the status of two British military bases on the island, saying Britain implicitly recognized the Turkish Cypriot administration in the north in an agreement signed with Ankara.
"Greek Cypriot Government Spokesman Vasilis Palmas said... that relations with Britain were being reconsidered 'through a different prism.'
"'We are reconsidering our bilateral relations,' he said, after Britain signed an agreement with Turkey on Oct. 23 that referred to the north as the "TRNC" which stands for the Turkish Republic of northern Cyprus..."
The Greek Cypriot government could reduce cooperation with the British military.
However, Cyprus is aware that Britain is its biggest trading partner, and roughly half of the 2.4 million people who visit Cyprus each year are British.
The Americans take a very strong interest in Cyprus.
In the early 1970s, Greece was run by the 'fascist' colonels who, reportedly, had been put into power by the CIA.
In Turkey, the people who pulled the strings were, reportedly, the pro-American military.
A number of books refer to a 1974 Cyprus plot involving the USA:
The Aphrodite Plot by Michael Jansen 1976, The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion by Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig (published by I.B. Taurus), The Rape of Greece by Peter Murtagh, and The Wrong Horse by Lawrence Stern.
A deal was discussed by Greek and Turkish ministers in the early 1970s.
According to this deal:
1. Cyprus would be split. 2. A Turkish military base would be set up on Cyprus, on the Karpass Peninsula. 3. The mainly Greek part of the Island would join up with Greece.
The USA was apparently involved in what was happening.
The U.S. wanted rid of Makarios, the President of Cyprus.
Makarios was seen as being too independent minded; he had left-wing allies; he was a friend of the Arabs; he was opposed to the 'fascist' colonels who ran Greece and who were regarded as CIA assets.
According to Peter Murtagh, the Greek colonels in Athens had allowed Israeli planes to use a U.S. base in Crete to launch the air strikes on Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian air fields that 'decided the outcome of the 1967 war' before Arab and Israeli troops came together on the ground.
According to Jansen: the USA wanted its Greek and Turkish allies in control of Cyprus.
Reportedly, by late 1973, the Greek and Turkish Cypriots were becoming more friendly with each other. They had decided to keep Cyprus united.
Reportedly, Greece and Turkey tried to wreck things.
In July 1974 Greece organised a coup against Makarios. Nicos Sampson became president.
Turkey decided to carry out its plan to split Cyprus. Turkish troops took over the North of Cyprus in 1974. It is thought that the USA supported the invasion.
According to the Cyprus Mail, 13 November 1999, and the Times Higher Education Supplement, the USA vetoed any British intervention in Cyprus.
The USA "vetoed Britain's intervention in the Turkish invasion to protect its spying bases in northern Cyprus, former British Prime Minister Lord Callaghan has revealed in an interview to a British paper."
The US has electronic spying facilities in northern Cyprus.
Callaghan was interviewed for the Times by Brendan O'Malley, co-author with Ian Craig of The Cyprus Conspiracy: American Espionage and the Turkish Invasion.
"Cyprus had extreme value as a centre for electronic surveillance," Callaghan said.
The UK and the US have had intelligence bases on Cyprus for many years. They have sophisticated surveillance equipment on top of Mount Troodos. The USA has its listening post in Northern Cyprus.
According to Greece's Daily Times, the USA has studied the possibility of "sending a military force to Cyprus, in the form of a peacekeeping force".
The President of Greek Cyprus, in Jerusalem
Chief Rabbi of Cyprus, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin meets the President of Cyprus Mr. Dimitris Christofias
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