Word: cypriote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eruption of the old feud between Turk and Greek caused an estimated 200 casualties. Absent diplomats were hurriedly recalled to their posts in Ankara, Athens and London. Fortunately, neither Greece, Turkey nor Britain wanted the trouble to continue. Nor did bearded Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, or his Turkish Cypriot Vice President, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk...
Rooftop Sniping. The trouble began when Makarios sent Kuchuk 13 proposals for amending the Cyprus constitution, which gave independence to Cyprus in 1960 after four years of bloody guerrilla war between Greek Cypriot guerrillas and British troops. The constitution was a complicated document, carefully drawn to safeguard the rights of the tiny nation's 100,000 Turkish Cypriots as well as the 500,000 Greek Cypriot majority. The Turkish community got veto power over the most important legislation and was promised 30% of all government appointments. To enforce the constitution, Greece was allowed to send 850 troops to Cyprus...
Negotiations & Bullets. As tension mounted, schoolchildren of both communities began building street barricades. Makarios and Kuchuk drove in armored cars to police headquarters and agreed to issue joint appeals for calm. The appeal went out in Greek, but there was a delay in the Turkish transmission because no Turkish Cypriot announcer dared go near the radio station in a Greek-dominated district of Nicosia...
...three years he sets his conscience aside, "breaking his subjects" with the inquisitor's classic alternation of bullying and sympathizing. He is shot at by terrorists, but even this does not upset his routine of work, liquor, sleep and sun bathing. His sleepwalking ends when he seduces a Cypriot girl. Before his guilt can bring him to renounce his job, the girl's young brother empties a Sten gun into a cafe where Barbour is sitting. Five men die: Barbour is untouched. It is he who must question the terrorist brother. His predicament has become truly modern: that...
...historic tour of Britain's former Indian empire. First stopover was in Cyprus, where no British monarch has set foot since Richard the LionHearted (in 1191). Over an orange squash, the Queen chatted cordially with bush-bearded President Archbishop Makarios, so recently a mastermind of the Cypriot revolt against the Crown. Flying on to New Delhi, Elizabeth was greeted thunderously by some 1,000,000 Indians who caught their first glimpse of a British ruler since Elizabeth's grandfather, George V, came to India in 1911 soon after his coronation. Somewhat unnecessarily, Prime Minister Nehru called...