موقف ليبيا من القضية القبرصية 1974-1981

Abstract EN

The Cyprus issue is one of the most complex and influential issues since the beginning of the seventies until the present day, as the events that the Cyprus island lived through, including political and other problems, have become in the records of modern and contemporary international political history, and although this island, which is located in the eastern Mediterranean, it has always been the subject of disputes.

Between the two parts of its population, the Turks and Greeks, these conflicts opened the way for international and regional interference in this issue.

In light of this, the Libyan position was effective in dealing with the repercussions of this issue to the extent that it overcame the American position and the American diplomacy in limiting the results of the military coup that took place in the island in 1974, so the Libyan role was great in limiting the circle of damage between the Turkish and Greek sides through the basis of their relationship.

With the two parties to the conflict, and this disturbed the American side severely, and it reacted strongly to the Turkish side by imposing an arms embargo on it, but the Libyan intervention with its economic strength helped the Turkish side to overcome that obstacle.