Word: turkishly
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...unified the roughly 3 million people of Greek descent in America. Until then, they had been bitterly divided over the dictatorial government in Athens, which ended when the junta resigned in the wake of widespread civilian unrest in Greece after the Cyprus defeat. Greek Americans were outraged by the Turkish aggression, regardless of its justification, and besieged the U.S. Congress with demands that American military aid to Turkey be withheld...
This led to a congressionally mandated cutoff of aid to Turkey effective last February, though other factors played a major role: 1) the Turkish use of American military weapons on Cyprus clearly violated U.S. laws banning their offensive employment and a specific agreement between Washington and Ankara against shipment of such weapons to Cyprus without Washington's consent; 2) Congress was growing increasingly restive over what many legislators considered Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's highhanded management of U.S. foreign policy...
...Department official and a well-connected Republican attorney (he is a law partner of former Secretary of State William Rogers). Son of a Greek mother and Greek-Cypriot father, Rossides argues that the Cyprus crisis "exposed the myth of Kissinger's competence as a negotiator," and that the Turkish aggression was "equal to if not worse than the Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Hitler's aggression against Czechoslovakia and the Balkan nations." Such invidious rhetoric aside, Rossides' group has efficiently spearheaded the lobbying...
...long-established Greek-American institutions have provided vital grass-roots support, stimulating the mail campaigns. One is the Greek Orthodox Church, headed in the U.S. by Archbishop lakovos, who set up 50 state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about...
Kissinger has responded to the Greek-American criticism by meeting four times with the AHEPA leadership's Justice for Cyprus Committee and several times with anti-Turkish-aid Congressmen. He has refused to budge in advocating aid to Turkey and has criticized the opposition as misguided and not in the best interests of the U.S. Kissinger also has found one Greek American, Rochester lawyer Dennis Livadas, who has agreed to try to organize a minority lobby within the U.S. Greek community to support the Administration...