Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tillery moved out of their previously held strongpoints around Kyrenia and Nicosia and within 40 hours crossed to the other side of the island at Famagusta, neatly taking control of the northeastern third of the island in what well may be a permanent division line between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities. "Now is the time to settle the Cyprus problem once and for all, and that's what we are doing," pronounced Turkish Foreign Minister Turan Günes, (see box). "Let public opinion embrace the Greeks and cuss us out. We don't care...
...happen in the world, the country, if he stayed, if he went. He was a man reaching for any support, yet knowing there was none, or at least beginning to perceive it. He was a man trying to fashion something graceful from the terrible debris that, as in a Greek tragedy, he had created...
However, in the present hostile state of relations between our two countries, we cannot continue cooperating with the Greeks in NATO. While Greeks and Turks were fighting on Cyprus, high-ranking Greek officers remained at NATO headquarters in our Port Izmir...
...restored the Greek constitution of 1952, guaranteeing civil rights to all Greeks; the junta had abolished it in 1967. A Cabinet spokesman promised that a referendum would be held "in due time" to decide whether Greece would remain a republic or again become a monarchy. He pledged "the formation of a democracy in which all Greeks will have a voice." In the meantime, the Cabinet would legislate by decree. At Caramanlis' urging, the Cabinet fired all the military-appointed provincial prefects and all secretaries-general of the government ministries. Most of Greece's ambassadors and top officials...
...civilians in the Ministry of Defense complete authority over the armed forces. The E.S.A., the hated military police, was deprived of its powers to arrest and interrogate civilians. It was the E.S.A. that Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis used to make himself the junta's strongman and terrorize the Greek populace. Widely blamed for planning the coup against Cyprus' President Makarios, which led to the Turkish invasion, loannidis has not been seen publicly since the civilian government was installed. He has been stripped of his power and placed on inactive service for the next six months...