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Word: cypriote (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ball's arguments should have been strongly reinforced by events inside and outside of Cyprus. At Limassol, the island's second largest city, Cypriot irrationality achieved its newest flowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Irrationality in Flower | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...trouble started at the nearby village of Episkopi, one of the few still sheltering a mixed population of Greek and Turkish Cypriots. According to Greek sources, a Turkish police sergeant in charge of a four-man detail relieved his two Greek cops of duty and then phoned headquarters in Limassol to say he was no longer taking orders from the Greek Cypriot chief of police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Irrationality in Flower | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...week's end Makarios' government announced that, together with the governments of Britain, Greece and Turkey, it had agreed to hold a London conference on the crisis this month, and added that representatives of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities would participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Island of Tension | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...seems likely that Makarios will get some revisions of the constitution, which even the British concede is unwieldy and perhaps unfairly weighted with veto powers for the Turkish minority. But even a more workable constitution may not guarantee peace. Zekia Bey, a Turkish Cypriot on the Supreme Court, said sadly: "I don't think there can ever be any hope of coexistence between Greek and Turk here. It has now been established that to become a political leader in Cyprus you must have the right qualification-you must have killed someone. The greatest difficulty is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Island of Tension | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...morning before Christmas, Nicosia woke to the chattering of machine guns and the crack of rifles. The Greek Cypriot police were fighting it out with Turkish Cypriot civilians. In the northern section of Nicosia, 10,000 Turkish Cypriots were without water and rapidly running out of food. In his official home in one of the bastions of the city's old Venetian wall, Dr. Kuchuk held hazardous cease-fire meetings while bullets poured into his house from two sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Island of Hate | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

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