Word: ankara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Greek government momentarily involved in a leadership crisis, President Makarios decided the time was ripe to "rebalance" the constitution. He submitted a 13-point amendment that effectively stripped the Turkish Cypriots of their safeguards. In a flash, Cyprus was up in arms. The Turkish Cypriots, backed by Ankara with its threats of invasion, cry for taksim-partition-or at least some form of cantonal federation. Greek Cypriot extremists, reviving the threat of enosis with Athens, have seriously suggested that all Turks be forcibly removed from the island and packed off to Turkey. Either solution appears unworkable. An outstanding...
...keep army units on Cyprus. His target was a 650-man Turkish force, whose presence-though hardly a major military threat-Makarios-finds unbearable. Promptly, Turkish Premier Ismet Inonii rejected Makarios' demand for the unit's removal, warned that if the Turkish force should be attacked, Ankara would consider it aggression...
Cruising Fleet. From Turkey came roars of indignation. Five thousand Ankara students marched through the capital shouting "Down with Makarios!" . Others gathered at the statue of Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, to sing his favorite marching song: The Mist Covers the Top of the Mountain. Then they marched angrily to army headquarters to present a parcel of Cyprus soil to the General Staff. The demonstrators wanted action from the government, and they got it in the form of a gravely worded note issued by the Foreign Office. "The massacre, which is becoming a genocide, has forced Turkey...
Bearded Ecclesiastic. Nearly everyone else concerned with Cyprus disagreed. U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball made cautionary stops last week at London, Athens and Ankara. Then, armed with the backing of all three governments as well as his own, he flew on to Cyprus to urge the acceptance of a proposal which would provide the island nation with a 10,000-man peacemaking force, drawn from troops of the West, to keep Cypriots from cutting each other's throats...
...will solve all of Cyprus' problems would be foolhardy. No matter what its cause, the between the Greek and Turkish communities is real and will remain even after foreign troops have left. But this division is a problem which must be solved in Nicosia, not in London, Athens, or Ankara...