Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unicameral legislature, an ethnic Greek president and an ethnic Turkish vice-president will compose the legislative and executive leadership. The Turkish vice-president will have a veto on matters affecting the Turkish minority or the security of Turkey itself. Such a scheme closely resembles the one John Calhoun advanced to protect Southern minority rights in the pre-civil war United States...
Although the Greek and Turkish governments have finally found an agreement for Cypriot liberty, many problems still lie ahead. The tragic situation of civil strife, repression and reprisal which as comprised Cypriot life for the past years was the product of several conflicting 'interests, and not all these interest have been reconciled. The British have seen their Cyprus base as necessary to the preservation of their position in the Mediterranean, especially since they were required to leave the Suez canal. The Greek-Turkish proposal does provide that the British can retain their base on the island, and thus English approval...
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...
...strife centered about demands of four-fifths of the eastern Mediterranean island's population of Greek origin for complete integration with Greece while Turkey demanded partition of the country for the other fifth of the half-million islanders, who speak Turkish. The island is Great Britain's military outpost in the Mideast...