Word: cypriote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Determined to get by force what it could not get at the Geneva negotiating table, Turkey last week again broke the unsteady Cyprus truce. With as much ease as a surgeon wielding a scalpel across the dusky Cypriot plain, Turkish forces supported by tanks, jets and ar tillery moved out of their previously held strongpoints around Kyrenia and Nicosia and within 40 hours crossed to the other side of the island at Famagusta, neatly taking control of the northeastern third of the island in what well may be a permanent division line between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities...
...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 the southwestern part of the city, where...
...Turkish Cypriot representatives bound for Geneva were equally belligerent. The Turkish community on the is land is already making plans to enlarge Kyrenia's port. In addition, a new ferry service linking Kyrenia and the Turkish mainland nearly 50 miles away will soon start. The Turkish Cypriots, who are outnumbered almost 5 to 1 by Greek Cypriots on the island of 659,000 people, apparently do not intend to relinquish any of the salient that has been won for them by the Turkish army. Said Rauf Denktas., leader of the 119,000 Turks on Cyprus: "We want Kyrenia...
...like a charnel house. Bloated human bodies rotted in back alleys; livestock and chickens were dying of starvation; meats and produce were putrefying in the summer sun because shelling and gunfire had cut off electricity. From a happy harbor Kyrenia had disintegrated into a place where 700 terrified Greek Cypriot refugees were locked up in Castellis Dome Hotel rooms designed for 250 guests while Turkish soldiers happily looted stores and private homes...
Nicosia's International Airport, which handled most of the tourist travel, was heavily damaged and will be out of service for months. In addition, the airport is situated in a disputed zone which both Turkish and Greek Cypriots now claim. In Famagusta, four major hotels along the town's "Golden Mile" of hostelries-the Venus Beach, Blue Sea, Salaminia Tower and Aspelia -were nearly destroyed. The Ledra Palace in Nicosia, acknowledged queen of Cypriot hotels, is a shell-pocked shambles. A construction program under which 35 additional hotels were to be built throughout the island has been suspended...