Word: turkeys
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Greece, whose ties with its NATO allies have been badly strained by the conflict over Cyprus, should have offered Shepilov ideally troubled waters in which to fish. On the Cyprus issue, however, his hands were tied by Russian reluctance to offend Turkey. (The Montreux Convention, which gives the U.S.S.R. access to the Dardanelles, expires this year.) Otherwise, Shepilov had little to offer the Greeks except the conventional invitation to Moscow-an invitation which Greece's staunchly pro-American Premier Karamanlis was in no hurry to snap...
Cyprus is a sore subject involving three presumably friendly nations, and two of them have long since made their views noisily plain. Last week came word from the third nation: Turkey...
Future at Stake. In interviews with the London Daily Telegraph and CBS, Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes made his case. "You are aware," he said, "that Greece has worked up this whole tremendous agitation simply to be able to annex an island 40 miles from Turkey and 600 or 700 miles from her own mainland. In doing so the Greek government has not hesitated to imperil the future of NATO, of the Balkan Pact [Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia] and of its own good relations with Britain and Turkey...
...Turkey-unlike Greece-has a Middle...
Eastern frontier with Russia, and the day may come when Turkey and Britain will want to act in the Middle East, and Greece will not. "The Egyptian government has opened the door to Soviet penetration of the Middle East," Menderes went on. "Why should we consent to place the whole future of Turkey at stake...