The US Air Force is expanding its deployment to a British Air Force (RAF) base in Cyprus by deploying 129 military personnel (pilots and ground staff) while building a new 147-space facility at a cost of $27 million.
The US spy force, namely the 1st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, is permanently deployed at the British base, RAF Akrotiri.
The US Air Force has had a base on British soil in Cyprus for nearly half a century, but its size has been kept a secret from the public on both sides of the Atlantic. Declassified documents reveal growing US military presence on Mediterranean island.
The US Air Force is expanding its deployment at the RAF base in Cyprus, taking over 1.5 acres of the British base to house its personnel at a cost of $27 million. The US spy force, 1st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, has been permanently deployed to the British base
The UK Ministry of Defense refuses to disclose the number of US military personnel on British soil, or whether US bombing missions are carried out by it.
The Pentagon claims it has only one airman in Cyprus and ignores the request for clarification as Top Secret noting that: "Cyprus hosts a wide range of UK and US intelligence agencies."
A Cypriot citizen working in the UK base area told media: "There is a large US presence, I don't know how it works or why." The US military plans to deploy at least 129 airmen on British soil in Cyprus by next year, a foreign website has revealed. The number of US troops in the UK's so-called Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs), which make up 3% of Cyprus' land area, has long been secret.
"We do not propose to release to the public the number of US personnel involved in current or future operational activities [in British Cyprus]," the British Ministry of Defense (MOD) recently announced in parliament.
The US Department of Defense, meanwhile, claims it has only 14 personnel deployed to Cyprus, including nine Marines and just one airman. The department at the Pentagon did not respond to the website's request for more information and comment.
However, she reveals that she is in possession of a US Air Force (USAF) document detailing a construction project at the Cape base, which is an "extremely busy" UK air base from which bombing missions are carried out across the middle east. The document, drawn up in March 2019, notes that then 87 US airmen were deployed to the RAF base in Akrotiri in 2018, including 12 officers. The US plans to increase its staffing levels by 48% over the next six years.
By 2024, the US plan was to have 129 airmen deployed at the base, 15 of them officers. The actual number for US military personnel in British Cyprus is likely to be higher. There are many other garrisons and military installations at the two British bases known as Dekelia in the east of the island and Akrotiri in the west, in so-called UK "preserved sites" in Cyprus.
These probably host some US military personnel (radar in Troodos).
PENTAPOSTAGMA.GR confirmation for Cyprus and plans in the region
According to our article, the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak reported that "Cyprus, which has been Turkish territory for 450 years, is facing a terrible plan from the other side of the Atlantic that is literally turning everything upside down.
The US on the one hand wants to systematically reduce the Turkish population on the island and on the other hand has plans to expand the territory of the Greeks.
The ultimate goal of the USA, which settled in the Balkans to redesign the region by increasing its military presence in Crete, is the creation of military bases both in the Occupied and the Greek Cypriot side.
In the Eastern Mediterranean, the US, France, Israel, Greece, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have formed an alliance directed against Turkey, but with Cyprus as their ultimate goal once again.
The US and countries belonging to its defense axis, wanting to gain strategic control over the rich hydrocarbon deposits in the region, see the Occupied and the Turkish population, which controls 36.6% of the island, as the biggest obstacle to their plans .
Their formidable plans to overcome this obstacle are gradually coming to the negotiating table, Turkish media sources say.
The first rule imposed on the TRNC in the name of the so-called "solution" of the Cyprus issue is the concession of land. The TRNC, which currently controls 36.6% of the island, must be confined to a narrow strip of land. On maps released to the UN, it appears that the Turkish population should be limited to the Kyrenia-Nicosia-Ammochos triangle. According to the maps, Lefkas, Morphou, Kythrea, Agastina, Vatyli and Maras are also planned to be granted to the Greek Cypriot side.
The demographic structure is the other part of the terrible plan drawn up by the Americans.
According to the Turks, the goal is always to reduce the Turkish population, which must be limited to the Kyrenia-Nicosia-Trikormos triangle as the only appropriate solution.
Some of the scenarios targeting the TRNC involve clear military plans. Turkey's guarantor rights on the island will be lost, since the Turkish forces will be fully withdrawn as well as the Greek ones of course.
After the withdrawal of Turkish troops, the US aims to turn the island of Cyprus into a massive military land, naval and air base.
The US, which gradually settled in the Balkans to control the region and increased its military presence in Crete, a key island in the Eastern Mediterranean, clearly reveals this intention with the military agreements it has made with the Greek side." emphasizes the article, revealing Ankara's fears against the West.
