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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...
When they were not breaking the ceasefire, some Turkish troops systematically looted shops and homes in Kyrenia, a former Greek Cypriot enclave and the most important town Cypriot Turks have occupied since troubles began on the island. Residents of Kyrenia fled to refugee centers in tourist hotels that were protected by U.N. soldiers. Said Andreas Karioulou, 52, a noted diver whose discoveries off the island include a 2,200-year-old Greek galley: "It is hard to see your property go up in ashes. But I was born here, and I have no intention of leaving. The Turks should...
...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...