Word: turk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendship in Jeopardy. British retreat from Cyprus, said Menderes, would mean "an international disaster," and would upset the whole "delicate balance" of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, under which-after much bloody fighting between Greek and Turk-Turkey formally ceded Cyprus to Britain and ceded many of the offshore islands and Western Thrace to Greece...
...tripod of interests must be satisfied. A guaranteed continuance of the British military base, on an island free in time to determine its own political future-would that satisfy Turk, Greek and Briton? Last week the British announced that General Sir Gerald Templer, chief of the Imperial General Staff, would shortly confer with Turkish Premier Menderes. Everybody at least seemed to be trying...
...masked gunman entered a coffee shop in the village of Polis, ordered a Turkish Moslem constable to rise, then shot him dead. The murder, which islanders attributed to the underground EOKA terrorists, set off a round of communal fighting. For three days knives flashed and stones flew as Turk fought Greek in ugly little scrimmages all over the island. Scores were hurt. Many Greek-owned shops were wrecked. Crying "civil war," Fazil Kutchuk, leader of the Cyprus-Is-Turkish party, wired Ankara for Turkish government support...
...hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty the regiments whose instant readiness to fly to Middle East danger spots was supposed to be Britain's main reason for hanging on to the Cyprus base...
...avoid trouble by ignoring it. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak has proposed that NATO step in to supervise Cyprus' future self-determination, and at the same time see that the Greeks (who would undoubtedly win) give protective guarantees to the island's 20% Turk minority. Britain's needs in Cyprus would be amply served by a long-term lease guaranteeing free use of the sizable air, troop and naval base they are now building on the Episkopi Bay; NATO could underwrite a Greek guarantee so that Britain need not fear that one concession would...