There seem to be no limits on “Greater Israel.” From Hadi bin Hurr at stategic-culture.su:
Ankara will, by any means necessary, have to halt further Palestinization of Cyprus in order to fight for its very survival, Hadi bin Hurr writes.
Some Turkish media outlets — above all TRT Haber and Aydınlık — announced at the end of August this year that Erdoğan’s 2022 promise to significantly and almost dramatically increase Turkey’s military presence in Northern Cyprus is finally being implemented. More precisely, the reinforcements are to be deployed on the territory of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC — in Turkish: Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti), whose sovereignty within the international community is currently recognized only by Türkiye. Nevertheless, this de-facto independent polity — established in 1974 after Türkiye’s military intervention in response to a coup whose aim had been the union of the then-undivided island with Greece — holds observer status in important organizations such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Economic Cooperation Organization. It also maintains limited bilateral ties and contacts with a number of states, among them Russia (which has opened consular services in the TRNC), Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Germany, and even Greece, which in 2014 hosted a delegation from the northern Cypriot Turkish community.
Media reports claim that the number of Turkish soldiers on Northern Cyprus could very quickly exceed 100,000 from the current figure of roughly 40,000. Of course, the buildup is not limited to manpower: the planned major Turkish military reinforcement on the island is to be accompanied by deliveries of modern hardware — new weapons, combat vehicles, tanks, vessels, aircraft (including drones), plus ammunition and other equipment. The idea is to equip several divisions so that, both technically and organizationally, they become a highly complex and powerful deterrent force that would send a more-than-clear warning to any potential adversaries of Türkiye in the region. By all indications, these reinforcements will not cover only land, air and naval forces; they will also include ultra-modern units specialized in electronic warfare — now indispensable for contemporary combat — and missile units that, among other weapons, will be equipped with ballistic missiles of the Tayfun family (Block 1), which, not entirely coincidentally, could put a number of Israeli cities within range. During the next year the missile maker Roketsan is expected to begin serial production of the far more dangerous Tayfun Block 4, which could also be deployed on Northern Cyprus.
Turkish officials justify this historic decision by Ankara as a forced response to the accelerated militarization of the region, which is making the security situation increasingly complicated day by day. Although there are UK Sovereign Base Areas on Cyprus — Akrotiri and Dhekelia, territories under direct British sovereignty — there is little doubt that Israel represents a growing and highly unpredictable security concern for Türkiye, given Tel Aviv’s steadily closer military cooperation with Greece and with the Greek-Cypriot administration in the south – the Republic of Cyprus, which, unlike the TRNC, enjoys full international recognition and EU membership. According to the Times of Israel, the Zionist state has thereby publicly and openly challenged Turkish control over Northern Cyprus, referring to it without hesitation as an occupation. In addition to the tightening military cooperation between Tel Aviv and Nicosia — which to date represents a still relatively discreet but growing Israeli military presence on the island — Turkish media devote a great deal of attention to a more insidious long-term risk for Türkiye’s security: frenetic investment activity by Israeli investors on the island. This is feared both because it could enable a slow, quiet and soft form of Jewish colonization of Cyprus and because these apparently lawful business ventures might serve as a cover for the intensive development of Israeli intelligence networks on the island.
If you stand up to a bully it usually works out.