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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...
...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...
...embassy on Cyprus last week once more became a target for Greek Cypriots who are fearful of growing Turkish power on the island and accuse Washington of supporting Turkish moves against them. Five months ago, as furious Greek Cypriots stormed the building, and burned the American flag, Ambassador Rodger Davies, 53, and a Cypriot embassy employee were murdered by mysterious snipers who fired through the windows. Last week, another stone-hurling crowd of 5,000 marched on the building. Marine guards firing tear-gas shells were unable to halt the demonstrators. Nicosia police finally drove off the crowd...
...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...