Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreement announced this week by Greece and Turkey over the future of Cyprus is not a happy ending. But it is a healthy beginning towards restoring order and liberty on the British-ruled island. According to the agreement Cyprus would be ruled, pending almost certain British approval, by a government based on a terests of the minority Turkish ethnic group...
LONDON, Feb. 12--Britain, Greece and Turkey pushed toward a lasting peace in Cyprus with swift rounds of talks today aimed at bringing independence to that troubled British colony...
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lioyd told the House of Commons that talks in London with Greek and Turkish foreign ministers on an agreement on Cyprus were going well. Reliable informants predicted a three-power conference to put the final touches on the accord would open in London Monday or Tuesday...
Greek Foreign Minister Evanghelos Averoff and his Turkish counterpart, Fatin Rustu Zorlu, expressed optimism for winning British approval of the plan to make Cyprus an independent republic. The plan was approved at the Turkish-Greek conference of five days in Zurich, Switzerland...
...nightfall their plan for a republic of Cyprus won the eagerly awaited blessing of the British-exiled Greek Orthodox primate of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios...