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...newest Turkish violation of the cease-fire on Cyprus began at dawn Wednesday, less than an hour after the breakdown of peace talks in Geneva. Günes telephoned Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara to report that Greece would not accede to Turkish demands that the island be partitioned into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, and that the talks were fruitless. Almost immediately Radio Ankara signaled the code words: "TYK in Force," meaning start the assault. Within minutes, Turkish jets were over Famagusta and Nicosia, making passes in Nicosia's International Airport area and dive-bombing...
Finally on Friday, its goals achieved, Ankara called a unilateral truce and said that it was willing to go back to the Geneva negotiations this week. Greece refused, insisting that it would not negotiate at "the point of a gun," particularly since the Turks continued to break the cease-fire in small skirmishes. Throughout the fighting, the over 4,000-man United Nations peace-keeping force had been able to do nothing to implement a cease-fire demand issued by the Security Council, and the Turks were not scrupulous about protecting U.N. neutrality. During the fighting, three of the blue...
...Turkish aim seemed to be, as Ankara claimed, not control of the whole island but of a third of it, roughly following a nearly 70-mile line from Lefka and Nicosia to Famagusta. With this "fact," as the Turks called it, accomplished, they felt that a settlement could be worked out giving the Turkish Cypriots their own geographical area in an island federation. Now the 116,000 Turkish Cypriots are interspersed in enclaves scattered among the 523,000 Greeks, who have discriminated against them and cut them off from sharing in the island's general prosperity. The Turkish area...
...politically, and have hoped for eventual union. Confronted with the Turkish military presence on the island, they might conceivably have acceded, however, had the Turks not demanded so much territory. Since the Turks make up only 18% of the island's population, the Greeks believe that Ankara should have asked for no more than a fifth. Athens, however, was not even allowed to consider seriously the plan at Geneva or to come up with counterproposals. When Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros asked for 36 hours to consult with his government, Günes flatly refused, and the talks broke...
Last week Ecevit met with TIME'S John Shaw and Mehmet Ali Kislali in his spacious office in Ankara. Over tea and with a relief map of Cyprus on the wall near him, Ecevit gave his views of the situation...