Word: greco-turkish
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...GRECO-TURKISH TENSIONS Turkey banned the site for three days after a Greek user allegedly posted a clip calling the founder of modern Turkey--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk--a homosexual. The stir caused a virtual video war to break out, as Greeks and Turks posted YouTube clips insulting one another...
...heart of the Greco-Turkish diplomatic impasse is Cyprus. After a 1974 coup inspired by Athens' ruling junta against the late President Archbishop Makarios, Turkey?using U.S.-supplied arms?invaded the island to protect the minority of 120,000 Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish forces, however, then proceeded to partition Cyprus. They occupied 40% of the island, centered on the industrialized north, where virtually all Turkish Cypriots now live. Nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to flee, joining their 320,000 ethnic brethren in the south. Blaming the U.S. for supporting the hated junta, which collapsed after the Cyprus coup...
...sent Makarios into hasty exile once again. But five days later (TIME, July 29, 1974) the coup precipitated a Turkish invasion. The result was a humiliating defeat for the dominant Greek Cypriots. When Makarios returned, he found a battered country that had abandoned the idea of any kind of Greco-Turkish accord...
Whoever inherits Makarios' job will be no new Dark Priest. But his problems will be enough to tax a saint. Although the Greek Cypriot community has recovered economically from the 1974 Turkish invasion, the ethnic division of the island is deadlocked. And the broader Greco-Turkish split that has wounded NATO shows no sign of healing. The course ahead for the next President is one that Makarios bequeathed him, and that will surely be a course of serpentine prospects...
...Istanbul one September day in 1921, a tall, slender young classicist gazed thoughtfully out the window. "I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...