Cyprus Emergency

Belligerents

United Kingdom

• British Cyprus
• Royal Ulster Rifles

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• Turkey
  • Special Warfare Department
    • Turkish Resistance Organisation
  • 9 September Front

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AKELEOKACommanders and leaders

Harold Macmillan (from 1957)
Anthony Eden (until 1957)
Hugh Foot (from 1957)

John Harding (until 1957)

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Major GeneralDaniş Karabelen

Colonel Ali Riza Vuruskan
Rauf Denktaş

Ulus Ülfet †Georgios Grivas
Grigoris Afxentiou†
Tassos Papadopoulos
Markos Drakos†
Kyriakos Matsis†
Renos KyriakidesStrength 40,000
4,000 policemen 300 fighters
1,000 active undergroundCasualties and lossesBritish Armed Forces:
104 dead
601 injured
Police:
51 dead
187 wounded 102–112 killed (85–95 in combat)
Unknown injuredGreek Cypriot civilians:
252 killed and 263 injured
Turkish Cypriots civilians:
62 killed and 150 injured

The Cyprus Emergency was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959.

The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriotguerrilla organisation fighting for unification with Greece, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in 1955. Opposition to Enosis from Turkish Cypriots led to the formation of the Turkish Resistance Organisation (TMT) in support of the partition of Cyprus. The Cyprus Emergency ended in 1959 with the signature of the London-Zürich Agreements, establishing the Republic of Cyprus as an independent state.