Browsing by Author "Richter, Heinz"

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The Grand Game and Britain’s Acquisition of Cyprus

Richter, Heinz (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, 2014)

In my following exposition I will try to answer three questions (1) Why did Great Britain want Cyprus in 1878? (2) How and when did London achieve this task? (3) Why did Britain keep Cyprus even when London discovered that ...
The Impact of the Confiscation of the Turkish Dreadnoughts and of the Transfer of Goeben and Breslau to Constantinople upon the Turkish Entry into WWI

Richter, Heinz (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, 2013)

When Winston Churchill then First Sealord of the Royal Navy had the two Dreanoughts, ordered and paid for by the Ottoman Empire before World War I, confiscated he created the preconditions for the Goeben-and Breslau-affair ...