Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cyprus the days were hot and the guns, for the moment, were cold. Turkish and Greek Cypriot sentries stood listlessly at the sandbagged strongpoints. Under watchful eyes of U.N. escorts, farmers drove their tractors through fields, bringing in the wheat harvest. At Nicosia's Ledra Palace Hotel, a new swimming pool was dedicated with a cocktail party. Not far away, a new Hilton was abuilding...
Turkey, which is entitled to keep a regiment of 650 soldiers in Cyprus, has also pumped in fresh forces from the mainland. But the Turkish Cypriots, lacking the control of the main ports that Makarios' men enjoy, have had to adopt unorthodox import techniques that make it impossible to bring in as many reinforcements as the Greeks. One battalion of perhaps 200 paratroopers was recently dropped clandestinely along the 15-mile-long road from Nicosia to coastal Kyrenia, where the legal Turkish regiment keeps watch over the only outlet from the capital the Turkish Cypriots control. Along with...
...Turks have landed by sea as well, mainly on the safely held beaches not far from Lefka on the northwest coast. Fast Turkish navy motorboats bring 30-man platoons across the 50-mile Mediterranean stretch; they are regularly watched by a Swedish U.N. infantry company that has its headquarters in full view of the shore. In all, some 500 Turkish soldiers have landed there, helping to secure a solidly held 30-sq.-mi. area-an ideal beachhead in case a major Turkish troop intervention should be decreed by Ankara...
...invade the island rather than allow enosis-the union of Greece and Cyprus. Putting his prestige as an international mediator on the line, Johnson conferred first with Inönü. A wizened, wily little old man, Inönü tried to enlist U.S. support for the Turkish plan to partition Cyprus, and had no basic objection to Johnson's suggestion that the Greeks and Turks settle their differences in bilateral talks...
...interference in the dispute was only marginally useful in view of the United Nations' mediation efforts. Stung by this response, State Department officials let it be known that they sympathized with the Turks' plight, and hinted that Washington might no longer be able to prevent a Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which would almost certainly precipitate war with Greece...