Word: cypriotes
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...eastern Mediterranean: a foreign army has deprived a republic--albeit just a splinter of land--of its independence and territorial integrity. When Turkish forces began landing on Cyprus last July 20, the official American response glibly called these maneuvers minor military actions. A corridor of land spanning Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, and Kyrania, another large northern city, had been taken before the Turks agreed to rechannel their pursuit of, as they phrased it, "political and military balance," into negotiations in Geneva. Only 18 per cent of the total population of Cyprus is Turkish, while 80 per cent of the island...
...delegation from Athens and Glafkos Clerides, the Greek Cypriot leader, received the plan coolly and asked for a short recess to talk it over with their governments. But the American State Department was more enthusiastic and didn't hesitate to show it during the lull. A department spokesman, Robert Anderson, insisted on the fairness of the Turkish position at a news briefing and seemed to be bolstering Ankara's stance with the timing of his comment, as well. A day later, on August 14, the Turkish army fanned over the island until its troops had hemmed in at least...
...Ford administration has never questioned the partition of Cyprus. President Ford seems to believe that American security is tightly linked to other nations and their social structure and Cyprus--even Greece--seems less amenable to American interests than Turkey. Since the overthrow of the legitimate Cypriot government. NATO experts have visited Turkish occupied territory to study the possibility of setting up NATO bases there; President Makarios had resisted similar plans in 1964. Ford contends that Turkey's location is "critical" because, along with Iran, it seals the Soviet Union from the Arab oil producers...
Clerides is resigned to a bizonal arrangement, but will participate in a session of talks slated for July only if Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, remains open to his ideas for a central government. The Greek community aims to avert the possibility of an eventual union between their counterparts' federal state and the Turkish mainland by granting substantial power to the central government...
...most urgent and controversial questions pivot on the Greek Cypriot refugees who fled the Atilla operation last summer. There are at least 180,000 of them--almost a third of the total Cypriot population--and although they have all been squeezed into tents, the strain of caring for so many dispossessed is severe...