And the British carve up Cypress in return. Thank you.
Cyprus. You mean Cyprus.
Yes the evil British set up the Ottoman empire, had it invade Cyprus in the 16th century and so set up two mutually hostile ethnic and cultural groups on the island. We do that stuff in our sleep.
The truth is: Britain destroyed the Ottoman Empire pretty much single handed - it’s only because of us that there is even a Greek-Cypriot administered area of Cyprus today.
Don’t get me wrong: the Turks shouldn’t be running any part of Cyprus. The Turkish invasion in the 1970’s was and remains completely immoral.
But the fact that NATO and the United States - not Britain, but NATO and the United States - did nothing about it was to do with the deadly danger of splitting NATO in the face of the Soviet Union. The division of Cyprus was one more concession forced on the Free World by the fight against Communism.