Word: cypriote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suspicious Greeks. Everywhere there were the tragedies and anomalies of war. One Turkish plane hit a Nicosia mental hospital, killing at least 20 patients and throwing the rest into a panic. One small boy rolled on the ground in hysteria and chewed pieces of broken glass. Greek Cypriots defending Nicosia periodically popped into available apartments to sip soda and listen to radio reports of how they were doing. But strangest and saddest of all was that the first battle between Greeks and Turks in seven years had been touched off by bitter animosity between Greek and Greek. The root...
...much as it distrusted the Turks, the Athens regime looked on the archbishop as the immediate enemy. The violently anti-Communist regime in Athens was suspicious of the archbishop's dealings with Moscow and the support he received from the 40,000-member Cypriot Communist Party. The junta reviled him as "Red," and worried that he would open Cyprus to the Soviet navy. In recent months, the anti-Makarios campaign was stepped up, and posters denouncing Makarios appeared on walls in Athens...
...President also insisted to the Turks-who well remembered the days when his gang used to attack them with provocations-that "the Turkish community is in no danger at all." Cypriot Turks were unconvinced by his assertion. Rauf Denktas, leader of the Turkish community on Cyprus, refused to recognize Sampson's takeover of power and openly called on Turkey and Britain to oppose...
...carry out that policy, Sisco reportedly proposed in Athens that Sampson be replaced by a more moderate Cypriot as President, that Makarios be allowed to return to the island in his priestly capacity and that the Greek officers commanding the Cypriot national guard be withdrawn. The most the Greek junta was willing to do was to replace the 650 officers with other officers, which was scarcely a concession...
Enosis or Taksim. Ecevit's sudden popularity could quickly sour after the euphoria of the successful invasion dissipated in the face of problems requiring solution. Foremost among them was how to bring peace to Cyprus short of stationing a standing army there. No one believes that Greek Cypriots would accept union with Turkey or rule by a Turkish Cypriot. One solution might be to have a Greek moderate acceptable to both island communities take over the presidency, or even have Makarios return. Another, less likely possibility is the old idea of double enosis-or taksim, in Turkish-under which...