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So, what if Britain in 50s made a deal with the Greeks that they will cease with resistance and that Cyprus will become something short of dominion. That state would be a greek state, but a part of British Empire. On the other hand, threat would be that British would othervise return the island to Turkey, after all they had get it from Ottoman Empire in 1878.