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ALMOST A YEAR after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the United States is still reluctant to focus on the reason behind the snarl in the eastern Mediterranean: a foreign army has deprived a republic--albeit just a splinter of land--of its independence and territorial integrity. When Turkish forces began landing on Cyprus last July 20, the official American response glibly called these maneuvers minor military actions. A corridor of land spanning Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, and Kyrania, another large northern city, had been taken before the Turks agreed to rechannel their pursuit of, as they phrased it, "political...
...Greek Cypriot leader, received the plan coolly and asked for a short recess to talk it over with their governments. But the American State Department was more enthusiastic and didn't hesitate to show it during the lull. A department spokesman, Robert Anderson, insisted on the fairness of the Turkish position at a news briefing and seemed to be bolstering Ankara's stance with the timing of his comment, as well. A day later, on August 14, the Turkish army fanned over the island until its troops had hemmed in at least 40 per cent of Cyprus. Turkish officers aptly...
...never questioned the partition of Cyprus. President Ford seems to believe that American security is tightly linked to other nations and their social structure and Cyprus--even Greece--seems less amenable to American interests than Turkey. Since the overthrow of the legitimate Cypriot government. NATO experts have visited Turkish occupied territory to study the possibility of setting up NATO bases there; President Makarios had resisted similar plans in 1964. Ford contends that Turkey's location is "critical" because, along with Iran, it seals the Soviet Union from the Arab oil producers...
...TURKISH CYPRIOTS have instituted an autonomous administration in the northern territory that they have resettled. They are determined to maintain the division of Cyprus into two zoned that would be federated under a central government. At most, 5-to-10,000 of the 45,000 ethic Turks that once lived in the area south of the military line of demarcation remain there now. Ankara persuaded many to leave their homes by warning that education and other public services would be withheld in the south...
Clerides is resigned to a bizonal arrangement, but will participate in a session of talks slated for July only if Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, remains open to his ideas for a central government. The Greek community aims to avert the possibility of an eventual union between their counterparts' federal state and the Turkish mainland by granting substantial power to the central government...