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...strife-torn island of Cyprus was hit by yet another crisis last week. As hundreds of cheering Turkish Cypriots listened over loudspeakers in Nicosia, their acknowledged political leader, Rauf Denktas., announced the formation of a separate federal state in the Turkish-occupied northern sector (see map). Denktas, 51, who will head up the new state, offered to join with Greek Cypriots in a federation if they should choose to form a similar state. But he flatly declared that "there is no possibility of living together with the Greek-Cypriot co-founders of the Republic of Cyprus." A 50-member constituent...
...Turkish Invasion. The action in effect ratified the de facto partition of the island forged by the Turkish invasion forces last July. At that time, Turkish Cypriots, who constitute one-fifth of the island's 620,000 population, won control over 40% of the country's land, including most of its natural and economic resources. About 200,000 Cypriots, mostly Greeks, were forced to leave their homes and become refugees...
There was no violence, but the Greek-Cypriot sense of betrayal could hardly have been deeper. Earlier in the week Archbishop Makarios, the prelate President of the constitutional Cyprus government, had approved a plan that would have created a "substantial" Turkish zone in northern Cyprus-a major concession-and would have allowed permanent settlement of Turkish refugees in the north. Glafkos Clerides, negotiator for the Greek Cypriots, insisted that major areas now under Turkish occupation must be restored to Greek control in order that some of the Greek refugees might be resettled...
Serious Consequences. Official Turkish reaction was guarded; nonetheless, there was general anger at Congress's action. In Ankara, Turkish Premier Sadi Irmak suspended bilateral talks on the future of American military installations in his country, and Foreign Minister Melih Esenbel canceled talks about Cyprus with Kissinger in Brussels...
...missile activity in the Soviet Union, to a gradual shift in the country's foreign policy toward a more neutral stance. As Parliamentary Deputy Haluk Ulman put it, "If the U.S. decides that it can live without Turkey, then Turkey must learn to live without the Western world." Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, moreover, warned that the aid cutoff might provoke the proclamation of an independent Turkish-Cypriot state...