Incorrectly Formed of the Public/Social Memory on NTRC About of the Establish Date of TMT (With English Archive Documents)

The British presence in Cyprus began with the Cyprus Convention signed on 4 June 1878. Britain has temporarily established the administration of Cyprus from this date, but unilaterally annexed the island with a "de facto" decision on 5 November 1914, with the pretext that the Ottoman Empire joined the First World War in Germany. This "de facto" decision of the England has reached legal grounds as "de jure" with the Lausanne Peace Treaty signed on 24 July 1923. England established colonial rule in Cyprus on 10 March 1925. The first social violence incident in Cyprus occurred in October 1931, approximately 6 years after this date. The Greek Cypriots, in the meantime, have resorted to taxation of the colonial administration and launched a rebellion for Enosis. In the October revolt, the Greeks targeted only the British colonial government and did not attempt any attack on the Turkish Cypriot community. Another one of the social attacks in Cyprus happened in 1955. The Greek Cypriots moved to the United Nations (UN) in December 1954, when their request for Enosis was not taken into account by the British colonial administration, but when they did not get the desired result there, they launched violence in Cyprus on 1 April 1955. Violent incidents in Cyprus have also turned to Turkish Cypriots since June. The Turkish Cypriot community has set up resistance organizations to ensure self-security after violent incidents. The Turkish Cypriot resistance organizations have been active since 1955; Kara Yılan, Kıbrıs Türk Mukavemet Birliği (KITEMB), Volkan, Yıldırım, 9 Eylül Cephesi and Kara Çete, but these organizations have not been able to spread throughout Cyprus and have not been effective because they remained at the regional level. R. Rauf Denktas, President of the Federation of Turkish Cypriot Institutions, Dr. Burhan Nalbantoğlu, President of the Turkish Cypriot High School Alumni Association, and Kemal Tanrısevdi, Consulate of Turkey officials realized this ineffectiveness and the Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT) which have established in November 1957. In the first report published by the TMT on November 28 th, 1957, it is declared that other scattered Turkish Cypriot resistance organizations were gathered under the roof of the TMT. TMT has the security of the Turkish Cypriot community for 9 months from that date alone, since the August 1958 were under the control of officers sent from Turkey. Every year in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is celebrated on 1st August as the foundation of the Social Resistance Festival and Establisment date of TMT. However, this situation contradicts the establishment date of TMT. The actual establishment date of the TMT has been tried to be set forth with the support of British documents with this paper.

Keywords

Turkish Cypriot Resistance Organizations, TMT, Ceremony of Social Resistance, Social / Public Memory