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Instead of cheering, the Turkish Cypriots cursed. One shouted, "We are Turks, and we will die before we accept food from Makarios!" Another grumbled that the food was probably poisoned. The convoy commander, a young Finnish lieutenant of the U.N. peacekeeping force, was appalled. "Your attitude is inhuman," he said. "There are starving babies in Kokkina." A Turk replied, "The whole blockade is inhuman. We don't want Makarios to make propaganda by giving us food. We will leave it on the road or throw it into...
...peacemakers" of the United Nations wagged their blue berets in impotence and pleaded a simple cause: cool off. But no one on Cyprus would or could listen. The islanders were caught up in a Mediterranean frenzy of nationalism, the product of four centuries during which Greek and Turk Cypriot had been taught to hate, fear and-finally-kill one another. The U.S., which is being accused by each side of favoring the other, cares little enough about the issues, but is being forced to ask who is right. Even a partial answer is buried deep in history...
...Britain annexed the island outright. Under the British, a state of wary but peaceful coexistence developed between Turkish and Greek Cypriot. Greek landowners in the craggy Troodos Mountains leased their pastures to Turkish shepherds; Turkish shopkeepers bought oranges and carobs from Greek farmers. In the village taverna, Turk and Greek sat at separate tables, but spoke politely to one another, usually in Greek...
...move the family to Constantinople, where there is less danger, Stavros has already resolved to quit Turkey and travel to the United States. As the eldest son, he is sent on ahead to invest the household treasures in the capital. And the hardships begin. The boy kills a shiftless Turk who has robbed him, loses a second cache in a brothel, and nearly dies in a raided meeting of revolutionaries. Of course Stavros is undaunted. He mutters continually, "I have a plan...
...unwieldy and perhaps unfairly weighted with veto powers for the Turkish minority. But even a more workable constitution may not guarantee peace. Zekia Bey, a Turkish Cypriot on the Supreme Court, said sadly: "I don't think there can ever be any hope of coexistence between Greek and Turk here. It has now been established that to become a political leader in Cyprus you must have the right qualification-you must have killed someone. The greatest difficulty is that we can't trust them, and I think they can't trust...