Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the London agreement of 1959, both Turkey and Greece have the right to station small detachments of their regular troops on the territory of Cyprus. Early this month, Turkey notified the Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios that it intended to rotate home 335 Turkish soldiers whose one-and two-year terms were up and to replace them in Cyprus by an equal number. Such exchanges had taken place before without incident. When the Cypriot government requested a postponement, Turkey agreed to a delay of one week...
Swift Response. Cyprus then replied that any and all Turkish regulars were welcome to leave the island but that no replacements could be landed. Insidiously, Makarios ordered the exchange of notes published, thereby making a 'public issue of the impending showdown. If Makarios had said nothing, the Turkish troops could have been quietly rotated without public outcry. But now Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonii was faced with the alternative of a public and humiliating backdown, which would almost certainly topple his government, or of making a landing in force on a hostile shore...
...Turkish response was swift, and spurred on by almost daily violent demonstrations against the U.S. embassy, for the Turks interpret U.S. policy as favoring the Greeks (the Greeks interpret it as favoring Turkey). The Makarios regime was informed that the passenger steamship Amiassa would anchor off the Cypriot port of Famagusta and its 335 unarmed replacements would land, if permitted, while an equal number of unarmed outgoing troops, under United Nations escort, would board the Amiassa and sail home. If the replacements were not allowed to land, said Ankara, a Turkish army would invade Cyprus under naval escort...
...peace-keeping force took a few aggressive steps. U.N. posts, manned by Swedish troops, were set up between the lines of the Turkish Cypriot defenders of Kokkina and the Greek Cypriot besiegers on the mountainside. Canadian, Finnish and Danish U.N. troops, moving forward with the bayonet, dismantled Turkish Cypriot gun positions that menaced a U.N. headquarters near Nicosia...
Even though the U.N. mediator, Finland's Sakari Tuomioja, suffered a stroke, negotiations in Geneva continued. Greek and Turkish representatives in Geneva pored over a plan, proposed by U.S. Special Envoy Dean Acheson, which apparently envisages a union of Cyprus with Greece (enosis), with special guarantees for the Turkish Cypriots and a permanent Turkish base on the island. Given suitable face-saving devices, Turkey and Greece might accept. The same old stumbling block is still Makarios, who was once a loud advocate of enosis but now seems to enjoy being head of a sovereign state...