Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moved to Stockholm, then to Toronto. It was there that his anti-American and anti-NATO sentiments blossomed. Papandreou loudly claimed that the CIA had engineered the colonels' coup, and blamed Western Europeans for not opposing the military regime more strongly. To Papandreou, Greece's ancient enemy Turkey, also a NATO ally, is more of a threat than the Soviet Union. That notion was reinforced in 1974, when Turkey invaded Cyprus, an independent island nation with a predominantly Greek population...
...NATO. Here is a unique problem: we belong to NATO, but this alliance refused to guarantee our frontiers [against Turkish attack]. Turkey has made many claims on operational control of the eastern Aegean, on the continental shelf, on control of air space. Many times Turkish leaders have even hinted that islands of the eastern Aegean are not necessarily Greek. We have to maintain a high level of readiness and modernize our armed forces. This costs us enormously when we should be spending our resources on education, health and development...
...Turkey. There is no rational reason for Turkey to expand westward. We could and should remain good neighbors. But we should respect each other's sovereign territory. Turkey maintains 120,000 troops equipped with landing craft in the Aegean. Obviously, this is not for defense against the Soviet Union. It seems aimed at Greece. It's a bitter fact...
...ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974], but in substance the U.S. and NATO accepted it. The second blow came in 1974 when Turkish troops armed by NATO and the U.S., using arms in violation of American law, invaded Cyprus. The third blow, and one still very much alive, is Turkey's claim on the Aegean while the U.S. modernizes Turkey's arsenal...
...sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through the fog of general ignorance. He's pure enough at first to earn the epithet "honest": "Beware, my lord, of jealousy," he says firmly, and villain and councilor splendidly...