Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turkish government needed little prodding. Within recent months the festering relations between Greece and Turkey had worsened as a result of a dispute over a major discovery of offshore oil in the Aegean Sea near Thasos. The oil is situated in an area where the continental shelves of the two countries overlap, causing arguments about ownership. Turkey has indicated willingness to arbitrate the controversy, but Greece adamantly refuses. At the moment, Athens is in control of the area...
...fretted when Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, apparently seek ing a peaceful solution, flew off to Lon don for conferences with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, as well as the U.S. State Department's Sisco. Turks feared that Ecevit might buckle once again, as Turkey has twice done in the past decade, rather than go to war over Cyprus. Instead, Ecevit took a hard line...
...firmly demanded withdrawal of the Greek officers from the island. Unless his terms were met, he warned, Turkey would exercise its treaty rights to move into the island and restore independence. His listeners believed the Prime Minister was bluffing. It was a serious underestimation of Turkish passions over Cyprus...
...thing, their army-supplied by the U.S., as Turkey's is-is smaller than Turkey's (see table page 33). For another, the tactical advantage was with the Turks, since they had made the first moves and were much closer to Cyprus...
...situation presented a dilemma for the unpopular junta, which would suffer whether it failed to fight or fought and did poorly. Either way, prideful Greeks would feel that the junta had allowed Turkey to humiliate their country. Athens radio at week's end went off the air amid rumors of a major shake-up in the junta leadership...