Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followers had fought for enosis (union) between Cyprus and Greece, but the agreement on independence forbade that. Instead it guaranteed a separate Cyprus and a political share to the Turkish minority. Ancient ethnic hatreds, however, soon brought the two communities into bloody. conflict. The United Nations dispatched a force to patrol the "Green Line" that separated the two ethnic groups. But the ceaseless hostility on Cyprus crippled NATO's eastern flank in the Mediterranean...
...EOKA-B. After the 1967 coup of the colonels in Greece itself, assassination attempts and other plots against the archbishop multiplied. In 1974 the Athens junta mounted a coup that sent Makarios into hasty exile once again. But five days later (TIME, July 29, 1974) the coup precipitated a Turkish invasion. The result was a humiliating defeat for the dominant Greek Cypriots. When Makarios returned, he found a battered country that had abandoned the idea of any kind of Greco-Turkish accord...
Makarios was scarcely guiltless in the 1974 war. He had effectively blocked Turkish rights and prevented outsiders from seeking reasonable settlements. His arrogance of 1963 was replaced by the sorrow of 1974, and his new credo was, as he told TIME'S Dean Brelis at the time, "to live with the reality of what is and to protect that which we hold...
...know I will not see an independent unified Cyprus in my lifetime," Makarios added, and he was right. In 1975 the Turks declared their own Turkish Federated State of Cyprus; last week the only notice this rump government took of Makarios' passing was to announce flatly that it would not recognize his successor as the leader of a united Cyprus...
Whoever inherits Makarios' job will be no new Dark Priest. But his problems will be enough to tax a saint. Although the Greek Cypriot community has recovered economically from the 1974 Turkish invasion, the ethnic division of the island is deadlocked. And the broader Greco-Turkish split that has wounded NATO shows no sign of healing. The course ahead for the next President is one that Makarios bequeathed him, and that will surely be a course of serpentine prospects...