𝗛ü𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘆𝗲𝘁 (𝟵 𝗛𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲): "Garantörlük anlaşmasına aykırı... Kıbrıs’a daimî Fransız üssü için imzalar atıldı" + 𝗖𝘆𝗽𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗹 (𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲): "Turkish Cypriots bemused by France military deal"

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https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/dunya/garantorluk-anlasmasina-aykiri-kibrisa-daimi-fransiz-ussu-icin-imzalar-atildi-43198316

Garantörlük anlaşmasına aykırı... Kıbrıs’a daimî Fransız üssü için imzalar atıldı

Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 09, 2026

Ömer BİLGE

obi...@hurriyet.com.tr

Güney Kıbrıs Rum Yönetimi, uluslararası anlaşmaları hiçe sayarak Fransa ordusunun Ada’ya daimî olarak yerleşmesine izin veren imzayı attı. Anlaşma, Fransa’nın Ortadoğu’ya konuşlanma, Rum yönetiminin ise Türkiye’ye karşı ittifak arayışının yeni bir parçası olarak değerlendiriliyor.

TÜRKİYE’ye karşı İsrail başta olmak üzere üslerini birçok ülkeye açan Kıbrıs Rum yönetimi, Fransa ile Fransız ordusunun Güney Kıbrıs’a daimî olarak yerleşmesine olanak veren Kuvvetler Statüsü Sözleşmesi’ni (SOFA) imzaladı. Rum yönetimi ‘insani amaçlar’ diye savunsa da anlaşma, Türkiye, Yunanistan ve İngiltere arasında 1960 yılında imzalanan garantörlük anlaşmasına aykırı.

AB ZİRVESİNDE İMZALANDI

Anlaşmayı AB’nin gayri resmi savunma bakanları zirvesi nedeniyle Güney Kıbrıs’ta bulunan Fransa Silahlı Kuvvetler Bakanı Catherine Vautrin ile Rum Savunma Bakanı Vasilis Palmas imzaladı. Rum lider Nikos Hristodulidis ile Fransa Cumhurbaşkanı Emmanuel Macron, stratejik işbirliği anlaşması çerçevesinde SOFA anlaşması imzalayacaklarını 2 ay önce ilan etmişti. Fransa’nın mart ayından bu yana bir hava savunma birliği, Ada’da bulunuyor. Birlik, bir İran kamikaze dronunun Rum yönetimindeki İngiliz hava üssü pistine isabet etmesinin ardından bölgeye gitmişti.

PARİS’İN HEDEFİ ORTADOĞU

Ortadoğu’da özellikle eski sömürge toprakları Suriye ve Lübnan’da yeniden etkili olmayı amaçlayan Fransa, uzun süredir bölgede daimî askeri varlık bulundurma arzusunda. Paris yönetimi, Rumların, Mari kasabasındaki askeri limanı ile Baf kentindeki Andreas Papandreu askeri üssünü kullanmayı istiyor. Rum yönetimi de Türkiye’ye karşı cephe oluşturmak amacıyla Batı ülkelerine topraklarını açıyor. Fransa, Rum topraklarına üslenmesinin yanı sıra Rum ordusunu da silahlandırıyor. Eski Sovyet silahları kullanan Rum ordusu, modernizasyon kapsamında Fransa’dan savaş helikopterleri ve hava savunma sistemleri satın aldı.

ÜSTEL: RUMLAR İÇİN DE RİSK

Bu arada Fransa ile GKRY arasında imzalanan askeri işbirliği anlaşmasına tepki gösteren KKTC Başbakanı Ünal Üstel yaptığı açıklamada SOFA Sözleşmesi’nin yalnızca Kıbrıs Türk halkının değil, uzun vadede Kıbrıslı Rumların güvenliği açısından da risk oluşturduğunu belirtti.

BİLGİ NOTU: SOFA anlaşması ev sahibi ülke ile asker bulundurmak isteyen ülke arasında imzalanan, askerlerin yetkileri, yükümlülükleri, ayrıcalıkları ile tabi olacakları hukuk sistemini belirleyemeye yönelik bir anlaşma. Kuvvetler Statüsü Sözleşmesi genellikle NATO ile asker bulundurduğu ülkelerle arasında imzalanıyor.

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https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/06/09/turkish-cypriots-bemused-by-france-military-deal

Turkish Cypriots bemused by France military deal

File photo: Unal Ustel

Tuesday 09 June

By Tom Cleaver

High-profile Turkish Cypriots on Tuesday expressed displeasure with Monday’s signing of a status of forces agreement between the Republic of Cyprus and France, which will, among other things, allow France to station troops on the island.

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel accused the Greek Cypriot side of “increasingly intensifying” the buildup of military assets in and around the island “under the guise of humanitarian purposes”, while instead aiming to “gain military advantages”.

This, he said, “disregards the Turkish Cypriot people’s inherent rights to sovereign equality on the island” and “is intended to disrupt the delicate balances established concerning the security and stability and our region”.

He added that the agreement “holds no validity whatsoever from the perspective of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot people”.

“The developments reaffirm once again the vital importance of the effective and active guarantee provided by the Republic of Turkey, which is the guarantor of the Turkish Cypriot people’s security, and make evident the need to further strengthen our cooperation with our motherland, Turkey, in the fields of defence and security,” he said.

He went on to say that the “signing of military cooperation and armament agreements with various states … including those which do not even have a coastline in the eastern Mediterranean” on the part of the Greek Cypriot side is a “manifestation of [its] insincerity” with regard to the Cyprus problem.

On this front, he said that the Greek Cypriot side is both “making arrangements which allow the deployment of foreign military elements on our island and enabling the use of Cyprus as a base for various military purposes” but at the same time “insisting on the condition of ‘zero troops, zero guarantees’ in the context of reaching an agreement on the island”.

“It is evidently clear that such provocative steps further deepen the deficit of trust between the two peoples on the island,” he added.

He then said that “the Greek Cypriot leadership is openly demonstrating its true intentions by systematically taking unilateral steps which disregard the Turkish Cypriot people’s inherent rights and lead to faits accomplis on the island”.

“It is absolutely unacceptable for the Greek Cypriot administration, which has no authority to represent the Turkish Cypriot people and the entirety of the island of Cyprus, to enter into unilateral agreements on matters concerning the whole island,” he said.

As such, he added, “the Greek Cypriot leadership must immediately refrain from taking steps which risk turning not only our island but also our region into a target”.

He then turned his attention to France’s decision to sign the agreement, saying that “it is evident that states like France … are continuing to harm the process of creating cooperation and dialogue between the two states on the island”.

This, he said, is as the country “disregarded the current realities on the island of Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot people’s inherent rights to sovereign equality”.

“We invite France, which has no place whatsoever in the order of security and stability established in the eastern Mediterranean with the 1974 peace operation, to put an end to its damaging initiatives in our region,” he said.

Asim Akansoy

Opposition political party CTP deputy leader Asim Akansoy, meanwhile, described the timing of the agreement as “quite unfortunate” given that it came on a day when United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin was on the island and “making efforts for the demilitarisation of [it] and a just and lasting peace”.

“It was a very unfortunate, unacceptable, and strongly reprehensible step,” he said, before warning that it also “has the potential to increase tensions” both between the island’s two sides and in the wider region.

He called for Turkish Cypriots across the political spectrum to “develop a common stance” on the matter.

“If a consensus is reached, we must strongly oppose a third state, a state which is not a guarantor, from stationing troops in these lands, through steps to be taken at the UN, steps to be taken at the EU, and initiatives to be taken at the Turkish level,” he said.

The agreement was signed by French Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin and Cypriot Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas in Nicosia, on the sidelines of the day’s informal European foreign affairs council (Fac) meeting in its defence configuration.

Plans for a status of forces agreement had been announced by Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis when French President Emmanuel Macron most recently visited the island in April.

President Nikos Christodoulides had said at the time that the agreement will “strengthen humanitarian military cooperation and joint action at a regional level”, and “provide for the presence of French forces on Cypriot territory for humanitarian purposes”.

Macron had spoken at length on the matter of defence during his visit to Cyprus, saying that the mass deployment of European military hardware in and around Cyprus after the island was hit by an Iranian-made drone in March, “constituted a reaffirmation of our determination to secure Europe’s space”.

“I said it in a simple way on March 9, that when Cyprus was attacked, it was Europe which was attacked,” he said.

As such, he said, “we therefore reinforced defence capabilities in the region with the deployment of military assets, in particular with the French carrier strike group” belonging to the aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle, which has been in the region since last month.

“This support and this concrete manifestation of the solidarity which links us as members of the European Union, and in terms of relations between France and Cyprus, was bolstered in December in the form of the strategic partnership,” he said, referring to the deal he had signed with Christodoulides in Paris at the end of last year.

Tom Cleaver

Tom is the Cyprus Mail’s chief reporter. An award-winning journalist, he speaks four languages fluently, watches his local football team home and away, and is an avid traveller.