Word: ankara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week that sending the F-5's to Turkey would upset the delicate balance of power in the Aegean. They regard their NATO partner Turkey, not the Communist bloc, as their greatest threat. Much of this animosity results from the political division of Cyprus, over which Athens and Ankara have been clashing for years...
Atilla Karasapan Ankara...
...this issue and thereby place an additional burden on those matters already in dispute." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher suggested that, as the guarantors of Cyprus' independence under the 1960 treaty, Britain, Greece and Turkey discuss the problem. Greece, however, objected to face-to-face talks with Ankara, forcing Thatcher to seek a compromise formula for negotiations. The issue ultimately went before the U.N. Security Council, which voted to ask the Turkish Cypriots to withdraw their unilateral declaration of independence...
Denktash admitted that he had timed his announcement to take advantage of the interregnum in Ankara before Ozal is installed. "I caught them by surprise," he explained. "They would not have had me do this had they known in time." But his move was not taken solely with Ankara in mind. Denktash also sought to gain international attention, impatient as he is over the stalemate in negotiations with the Greeks. Moreover, some observers insist, he has personal ambitions. "He wouldn't be happy being the governor of a Turkish province [of a federal Cypriot republic]," said a Western diplomat...
...generations; outright separation has been in effect since 1974 when right-wing Greek Cypriots favoring enosis (union) with Greece took power in Nicosia in a coup, thus triggering the Turkish invasion. Since then, the Turkish-dominated part of the island has managed to survive only with economic help from Ankara, which currently provides half the annual budget of $120 million along with millions more in development funds...