1. My thanks to Stacy Fahrenthold and Steven Hyland, Jr for comments on an early draft of this chapter, and to the volume editors and anonymous readers for their useful comments. On the Cypriot context see A. Varnava (2009) British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915: The Inconsequential Possession (Manchester University Press);
2. M. Aymes (2010) Un grand progrès sur le papier: histoire provinciale des réformes ottomanes à Chypre au XIXe siècle (Paris: Peeters).
3. On the Armenian politics of the Legion, not treated here, see A. Beylerian (1983) Les Grandes Puissances, L’empire Ottoman et Les Armé niens dans Les Archives Franç aises (1914–1918) (Paris: Université de Paris I);
4. D. Bloxham (2005) The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford University Press);
5. and in a denialist register U. Keser (2000) Kıbrıs, 1914–1923: Fransız, Ermeni Kampları, İngiliz Esir Kampları ve Atatürkçü Kıbrıs Türkü (Levent, İstanbul: Akdeniz Haber Ajansı).