Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis during its early days, Kissinger spent much of the weekend after the invasion talking on the overseas telephone to London and Paris as well as Athens and Ankara, helping to arrange the ceasefire. With his active intervention the Western alliance was able to exert considerable pressure on Turkey and Greece, both NATO allies, to stop fighting each other...
...Greece, Turkey and Britain, the three co-guarantors of Cyprus' independence under a 1960 treaty, to work out a peaceful solution for Cyprus. Turkey sent Foreign Minister Turan Günes to the Geneva peace talks with orders not to agree to any withdrawal from captured territory unless there was some concession by Greece in return. Günes floated a trial balloon that...
...Turkey might settle for partition, with both Greece and Turkey exercising rule over the island. But the proposal was badly received by the other countries, and Günes quickly abandoned the idea...
...Greek delegation was headed by the new Foreign Minister, George Mavros, who brought three demands: an effective ceasefire, law and order on the island and withdrawal of all "foreign troops," meaning the whole Turkish invasion force and a few hundred regular Greek officers. Turkey seemed in no mood for conciliation. Said Günes: "A cease-fire alone does not equal a solution for Cyprus. We do not want a return to the status quo existing before the coup." With neither side seemingly willing to make concessions, Britain's Foreign Secretary James Callaghan attempted to find a compromise...
...beach, Greek volunteers flattened themselves on the floor. Young women bravely, if thinly, sang a song of the Greek underground that has as its theme the old Spartan saying about coming home carrying one's shield or on it. When the planes pulled up and headed back to Turkey, the waterfront was a shambles. Five hotels and many shops along Kennedy Avenue, the main hotel street, were smashed. In what had been the bar of the Salaminia Tower Hotel, the body of a beach boy hung upside down, legs caught in the wreckage. The Turkish planes also hit residential...