Hello again ukturk,
in the last year, I have managed to get back in touch with a few of my old army mates, who served in Cyprus, one now in Australia, I grew up with this man, we played as kids, and went into the army on the same day,we where only parted when he was injured in an ambush, none of us have been back to Cyprus since we left in January 1957, but he is returning home to Scotland for the first time in 33years, to attend a wedding, and he was wondering if he would be able to visit Northern Cyprus on the way back to Britain, and if he could, would he be free to tour Northern Cyprus to show his wife some of the places where we served, and go back to where our lorry was blown up.
Also I am with a group called "Cyp Vets," all men who served between 1955 and 1959, we would like to raise a memorial to the British troops who died during the conflict with EOKA, But we are having trouble getting permission from the British government, like you say, I think they still don't want to upset the Greeks, and they, don't want to give permission either, we where hoping to have it erected in the British military cemetery, David Carter, who I believe writes for a Turkish Cypriot newspaper, fought the British government to get the names and military numbers of those killed released, they told him there where no records, of the men killed in Cyprus, but he has uncovered most of the 400+, numbers ranks and names, and place of death, of those killed in the four years of the conflict. I hope to return myself, if we manage to get permission to raise the monument, but there is no way I will stay in the Greek side of the Island, I hope to be able to stay in the north and travel to where ever we get permission to put the monument.