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...which shields the capital from the sea, a stick of Turkish paratroopers jumped into the cloudless sky. Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector of the city, they were gathered into waiting cars, ambulances and even a bread truck and driven to fighting stations. One paratrooper, a 29-year-old Turk named Sami, smiled broadly as he unbuckled his gear and slipped out of his brown chute. "This makes me tremendously happy," he said, apparently having been well coached by his officers. "We are just here to look after the welfare of the Turkish community...
...with Germany and its allies during World War I. Under British rule, a wary but peaceful coexistence developed between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Greek landowners in the jagged 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 each other, usually in Greek...
...settlement was negotiated by Britain, Greece, Turkey and representatives of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. However, it pleased few of the Cypriots, since it fulfilled the yearnings for neither enosis nor taksim. A hybrid government was created that called for a Greek as President and a Turk as Vice President. In the Cabinet and legislature, the Turks were given 30% of the seats -nearly double their percentage of the island's population...
Makarios, who was elected President of the new republic, resisted giving Turks enough high positions in the government, with the result that battles constantly erupted between the two communities. Frustrated, the Turks withdrew from the Cabinet and legislature at the end of 1963. Several months later, fighting between Turks and Greeks became so fierce that United Nations troops were sent in to keep the two sides separated. Ever since, a U.N. force of about 2,000 men has been stationed on the island to police the borders between Greek and Turk enclaves. But despite the U.N. troops, fighting between...
...Michael Turk, a History graduate student and member of the panel, said yesterday that the people at the meeting had a sense that the panel was another "quasi-administrative body." He said the graduate students were looking for more information about other ways to channel their dissatisfaction with the department...