A remembrance of the dead
The memorial is in remembrance of the dead, not the now distant conflict which ended 50 years ago. It makes no political point, nor should it. Servicemen do not play politics, they simply serve their country whether that be in Cyprus, Iraq, Afghanistan or any of the many other conflicts remembered through memorials such as this. We remember and honour those who died in our name, for that is the compact — the military covenant — between the nation and the Armed Forces. If some nowadays appear to have forgotten that, we have not.
Although the British cemetery in Kyrenia is in the Turkish-Cypriot North, and in a state not recognised as such by the world at large, it remains for all practical purposes British ground as it has been since the British arrived on the island in 1878. It is not in the 'political North' for there was no such entity when these British servicemen died, nor when Britain granted a united Cyprus its independence in 1960. It is a cemetery which had the Union flag on its gates then, and still has today. The memorial has no place in the events which divided the island in 1974 or in the politics of the island today.
However, after the reunification to which both sides of the island are committed, it may be that the memorial is resited in the British military cemetery at Wayne's Keep, where the dead are buried and where it would naturally have been sited if that cemetery enjoyed public access. But that is for the future. Until then, those who died before Britain departed the island, are remembered beside the graves of those who died when the British first arrived. The beginning and the end in the same place? That is history, not politics.