Word: greeke
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...cease-fire on Cyprus began at dawn Wednesday, less than an hour after the breakdown of peace talks in Geneva. Günes telephoned Premier Bülent Ecevit in Ankara to report that Greece would not accede to Turkish demands that the island be partitioned into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, and that the talks were fruitless. Almost immediately Radio Ankara signaled the code words: "TYK in Force," meaning start the assault. Within minutes, Turkish jets were over Famagusta and Nicosia, making passes in Nicosia's International Airport area and dive-bombing the southwestern part of the city...
...rolled out of the Turkish section of the city they had occupied since the July 20 invasion and thrust toward the suburb of Mia Milea, astride the road to Famagusta 35 miles to the east. A withering barrage of mortar and artillery fire preceded the tanks, and the native Greek forces, outgunned and outmanned, were unable to slow their advance. By early afternoon, the Turks were almost halfway to Famagusta, the island's principal port, its third largest (pop. 43,600) city and the center of its usually booming tourist industry. By Thursday evening, they had reached...
...part of the city, which is inhabited mainly by Greeks, was deserted, smoking and broken," reported TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin, who came in after the Turks. "From the wall we saw a column of twelve Turkish tanks mopping up the last resistance. A charred Greek school was pummeled by Turkish machine-gun fire. Scouts roamed the wide, tree-shaded boulevard picking out sharpshooters. Turkish soldiers who had strayed from their bases were looting abandoned houses...
...first attack. Most Nicosians who had a choice had fled the city earlier in the week when the Geneva talks appeared doomed, seeking refuge in the villages to the south and in the Troodos Mountains. Those few who had remained in the city, which once had a Greek population of 80,000, rushed to get out when they heard the first air strike, leaving the Greek section of Nicosia nearly deserted. The Red Cross reported that as many as 200,000 Greek Cypriots throughout the island had become refugees...
Flat Refusal. The Greeks have always opposed partition because they consider Cyprus part of Greece culturally, if not politically, and have hoped for eventual union. Confronted with the Turkish military presence on the island, they might conceivably have acceded, however, had the Turks not demanded so much territory. Since the Turks make up only 18% of the island's population, the Greeks believe that Ankara should have asked for no more than a fifth. Athens, however, was not even allowed to consider seriously the plan at Geneva or to come up with counterproposals. When Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros...