Word: cypriote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strife-torn island of Cyprus was hit by yet another crisis last week. As hundreds of cheering Turkish Cypriots listened over loudspeakers in Nicosia, their acknowledged political leader, Rauf Denktas., announced the formation of a separate federal state in the Turkish-occupied northern sector (see map). Denktas, 51, who will head up the new state, offered to join with Greek Cypriots in a federation if they should choose to form a similar state. But he flatly declared that "there is no possibility of living together with the Greek-Cypriot co-founders of the Republic of Cyprus." A 50-member constituent...
Denktas' statement hit the Greek-Cypriot community like a bombshell. Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets, shouting, "Give us weapons to fight! No to partition!" To forestall a violent attack like the one that took place last August, in which U.S. Ambassador Rodger Davies was killed, Greek Cypriot troops hastily moved into positions around the American embassy...
There was no violence, but the Greek-Cypriot sense of betrayal could hardly have been deeper. Earlier in the week Archbishop Makarios, the prelate President of the constitutional Cyprus government, had approved a plan that would have created a "substantial" Turkish zone in northern Cyprus-a major concession-and would have allowed permanent settlement of Turkish refugees in the north. Glafkos Clerides, negotiator for the Greek Cypriots, insisted that major areas now under Turkish occupation must be restored to Greek control in order that some of the Greek refugees might be resettled...
...activity in the Soviet Union, to a gradual shift in the country's foreign policy toward a more neutral stance. As Parliamentary Deputy Haluk Ulman put it, "If the U.S. decides that it can live without Turkey, then Turkey must learn to live without the Western world." Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, moreover, warned that the aid cutoff might provoke the proclamation of an independent Turkish-Cypriot state...
...attack was only one incident in a raging demonstration that spread to Athens and was directed at British as well as American facilities. In the Greek capital, Cypriot students climbed the walls of the British embassy compound and tossed fire bombs that burned automobiles and scorched the embassy. On Cyprus, meanwhile, one youth was accidentally killed by a military vehicle during a Greek Cypriot demonstration against the British at the entrance to the Akrotiri base area on the southern coast. The protests were aroused by a decision to move 10,000 Turkish refugees out of the British bases where most...