Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Under Secretary did little better in Turkey, where some oversensitive officials complained that "the Middle East got Kissinger for a whole month and we get Sisco for a week." Discussions between Sisco and Ecevit started out poorly when Sisco, because of scheduling difficulties, dispatched U.S. Ambassador William B. Macomber to the initial session in his place. Since Macomber was lower-ranking than Sisco, Ecevit disdainfully shuffled him off to see Foreign Minister Turan Gunes...
...meet two hours later, Sisco recalled that Ecevit was a "humanist" who had written poetry in his youth and asked, "How can you think of shedding blood?" Though Ecevit was still maintaining that no decision to invade had yet been made, he replied with a broad hint about Turkey's intentions: "I am convinced that my decision will prevent more bloodshed." He cited the 1967 Cyprus crisis, in which U.S. Mediator Cyrus Vance persuaded the sides to pull back and avoid fighting. "If your colleague had not convinced us to change our minds about military interference, Cyprus today would...
Soviet Massage. Ankara was also being massaged into fighting by the Soviet Union, which was happy to see the two NATO nations involved in an imbroglio. The crisis enabled Moscow to draw closer to Turkey by offering the nation encouragement and even possible aid, and thus recover some of the leverage it recently lost in the Middle East. It also offered Moscow an opportunity to foment disarray in NATO without risking serious damage to detente...
...sudden popularity could quickly sour after the euphoria of the successful invasion dissipated in the face of problems requiring solution. Foremost among them was how to bring peace to Cyprus short of stationing a standing army there. No one believes that Greek Cypriots would accept union with Turkey or rule by a Turkish Cypriot. One solution might be to have a Greek moderate acceptable to both island communities take over the presidency, or even have Makarios return. Another, less likely possibility is the old idea of double enosis-or taksim, in Turkish-under which Greek enclaves would be annexed...
...world only as a vacationers' paradise were it located in the South Pacific or the Caribbean. Fate, however, has placed the tiny island (3,572 sq. mi.) at the far eastern end of the Mediterranean, close to the cradle of Western civilization. A mere 40 miles south of Turkey, 100 miles west of Lebanon, and 525 miles east of Greece, Cyprus for millennia has been a strategic prize for any power seeking to control the politics and commerce of the region...