Word: ecevit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turks adamantly refused to open them to the Greeks. The Turkish military commanders severely hampered efforts of the International Red Cross and United Nations troops to give outside supplies to Greeks still behind Turkish lines. "We have personal pledges of cooperation from Turkish Premier [Bülent] Ecevit," fumed one relief official. "But the Turkish military on the island just doesn't give a sweet goddam." The Turks also said no to many Greek farmers who wanted to go through the lines to water and feed the livestock they had left behind...
...breakdown of the Geneva talks, once again began turning. Cyprus President Glafkos Clerides, the Greek leader, flew to Athens to consult with Premier Constantino Caramanlis, while Clerides' opposite number on the Turkish side, Rauf Denktaş, returned from Ankara after similar consultations with Premier Ecevit. The U.S. and Britain, meanwhile, were feverishly working behind the scenes to persuade Athens and Ankara to come to some kind of agreement...
Where should the line be drawn? Everything hinges on the answer to that question. At the prompting of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Ecevit has promised "reasonable" concessions and says that he is willing to give up some of the ground won by his troops. The issue is complicated by the fact that the Turkish-held territory contains something like 70% of the island's wealth-producing farms, factories and tourist facilities, most of which are owned by Greeks, not to mention the island's only deepwater port, Famagusta...
...hostile Greek regime. Together with the other Greek islands fringing Turkey's shores, an armed Cyprus, it believes, could cut off major access lanes to the Aegean Sea and the open water of the Mediterranean. With the Greeks claiming waters around the offshore islands, explains Haluk Ulman, an Ecevit foreign affairs adviser, "we felt we couldn't breathe, even in our own waters." At the same time that it settles the Cyprus problem, Ankara would like to guarantee a permanent demilitarization of the offshore islands, leaving them under Greek control but without Greek guns...
...intentions, Washington claimed neutrality in the Greek-Turkish dispute. It was "pure baloney" to say otherwise, said Robert McCloskey, an aide to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The U.S. threatened to cut off arms aid to both sides if they went to war. Kissinger himself talked with Caramanlis and Ecevit by telephone and urged the Turks not to use further force. He later offered his offices as mediator, either in Nicosia or Washington. In a gesture to placate Greece, the U.S. pulled out Ambassador Henry J. Tasca, who was far too closely identified with the hated dictatorship during his five...