Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the tail section that the only survivors came. "They came out from the fog and the trees," reported a farmer's wife, Mrs. Margaret Bailey, who heard the crash and drove to the scene. "One of them said, T am the Turkish Prime Minister. Quickly get help. There are others trapped...
Turkey's 59-year-old Premier Adnan Menderes was flying into London from Istanbul with a planeload of Turkish officials, Members of Parliament and newsmen for final talks on a Cyprus settlement. His secretary had pulled him through a hole in the wreckage. Margaret Bailey, a former nurse, drove them through the woods to her 14th century farm cottage, wrapped them in hot blankets, served them tea and some of her precious 1868 brandy...
Fifteen people, including Menderes' Minister of Information and Chief of Cabinet, the managing director of the Turkish Airlines, and an M.P., died in the crash. But back home, near the mosque on the Golden Horn where Adnan Menderes worships, the throats of 200 sheep were cut in gratitude that Menderes was among the ten survivors...
...pressure from this traveling panorama of opinion-from Reds to the far right-he began to haggle over details. Makarios protested that the Greek Cypriot President of the new Republic of Cyprus (likely to be Makarios himself) would have the trappings of power but not the authority, since the Turkish Cypriot Vice President would have effective veto powers. Makarios also feared that the introduction of 950 Greek troops and 650 Turkish troops as "protecting forces" on the island might lead to clashes...
Waiting for Joy. It had all happened so fast that many-including most Cyp-riots-felt a sense of relief but not yet of exhilaration. Their first responses were tentative and uncertain. Seven hundred young Turkish Cypriot students paraded through Nicosia, shouting the old cries-"Death to Makarios!"-but were easily dispersed. In one town Greek church bells pealed for 20 minutes after the London agreement was announced, then stopped. No one was quite sure how to react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting...