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Such declarations got strident support from Ankara. Premier Btilent Ecevit, Turkey's new hero for his decision to send troops to Cyprus (see following story), noted that "many things have irrevocably changed." In Athens the new democratic government of Constantine Caramanlis had little choice but to accept the changes. "Mistakes have to be paid for," said Caramanlis in a reference to the former junta's rash decision to overthrow Makarios. Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros explained that "we did not go to Geneva for diplomatic glory. We went there to prevent a deterioration of the situation...
...mainly at Washington. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger took a long-distance but key part in the Geneva negotiations, exerting America's growing influence on the Eastern Mediterranean. Kissinger was on the telephone frequently with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan as well as with Premier Ecevit in Ankara, who studied international affairs under Kissinger at Harvard in 1957. Kissinger suggested the compromise that kept last week's Geneva talks from failing. When the Turks objected to the eventual communiqué's calling for immediate withdrawal of foreign troops from the island, he proposed it read "timely...
...wreckage of the junta's Cyprus ad ventures. For this it needs some cooperation from Turkey, especially at the Geneva talks. The Turks probably trust Caramanlis and Mavros much more than the junta be cause the two civilians have never strongly advocated enosis - unification of Greece and Cyprus. Ankara rightly suspected the junta of plotting the coup against Makarios as a first step toward eno sis. To demonstrate the new regime's reversal of policy, in the Cabinet's first official statement Mavros recognized Makarios as President of Cyprus. Said Turkish Premier Btilent Ecevit in welcoming...
...want enosis [union], and we told the Turks that we did not want enosis." Nonetheless, after remaining aloof from the crisis during its early days, Kissinger spent much of the weekend after the invasion talking on the overseas telephone to London and Paris as well as Athens and Ankara, helping to arrange the ceasefire. With his active intervention the Western alliance was able to exert considerable pressure on Turkey and Greece, both NATO allies, to stop fighting each other...
Cyprus' independence in the face of pressures from Athens and Ankara was due in large part to Makarios' wily ability to play both sides against each other. After the confrontation of 1967, he abandoned enosis, which also helped defuse Turkish suspicions about whether his loyalties lay with Greece or Cyprus. Actually, Makarios continued to believe in the ideal of enosis but he feared-and events last week proved him right-that any attempt to achieve union with Greece would lead to war with Turkey...