Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underlying cause of the trouble is Cyprus. Three years ago, after an Athens-inspired coup against President-Archbishop Makarios, Turkey invaded the island to protect its Turkish minority. A strongly pro-Greek U.S. Congress responded by cutting off military aid to Ankara, which retaliated by taking control of 26 U.S. military installations in Turkey. Congress's action did not make many points for the U.S. in Athens; the Administration was blamed for backing the hated military junta that collapsed after the failure of the Cyprus coup and for not stopping the Turks. The new democratic regime of Prime Minister...
...world's troublesome flash points, the eastern Mediterranean, involves not just two adversaries but four -Greece against Turkey, and the U.S. Congress against the White House. An increasing hazard of this four-way face-off: an open, ugly military confrontation between Greece and Turkey, possibly as early as this summer...
...President Ford's prompting, Congress last year eased the embargo against Turkey by allowing it to buy up to $125 million in military equipment, but grant aid was forbidden. Last week Jimmy Carter tried to ease the embargo still further-but Congress said no. The House International Relations Committee rejected an Administration proposal that Turkey be allowed to buy $50 million worth of F-4 Phantoms on credit. Congress has refused to act on longer military-aid proposals amounting to $1 billion over four years...
Much Expected. Although the Greeks receive about the same amount of U.S. aid for an army only one-third the size of Turkey's, they were furious with Carter for giving any support at all to Ankara. Athenians who danced in the street when the President was elected are beginning to turn on him for being as anti-Greek as Henry Kissinger. Said one member of Premier Caramanlis' government last week: "So much had been expected from the Carter Administration. Instead, there appears the familiar American attitude: Turkey first, then we'll see about the Greeks...
Another issue divides Greece and Turkey: Who controls the Aegean? Homer's wine-dark sea is dotted with 3,049 Greek islands, some of which are only a few miles from Turkey's shores. Two years ago, the U.S. was able to mediate successfully between the two NATO partners when they approached the brink of war in a territorial dispute. Greece hinted it might extend territorial waters from six to twelve miles around each island; the Turks warned Washington that that would be a fighting matter, and the Greeks dropped the idea. With both sides now so angry...