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...month ago this island was a paradise. Now we have lost it. The island of Aphrodite is now the island of the devil." These bitter words of Peter Stylianakis, a retired civil servant, could have come from any other Greek on Cyprus. With the guns stilled and Turkish troops in control of more than one-third of the island, the once dominant Greek community had a chance last week to assess the damage caused by four weeks of war. The picture could not have been grimmer, and in their fear and frustration the island's Greeks lashed...
...about 180,000 people-had fled their homes in terror of the advancing Turks and congregated in makeshift refugee camps in the Greek-controlled part of the island south of a line extending from Lefka through Nicosia to Famagusta. Twenty thousand Cypriot Turks -about one-sixth of the native Turkish population-sought similar haven with the Turkish army in the northern sector. Most refugees, both Greek and Turk, had left their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs; their children were sleeping on the ground, without bedding or blankets in the cool (60°) nights. Sanitation...
...cause. All along Kissinger showed no sign of alarm or awareness to the potential dangers the situation posed in Cyprus--highly uncharacteristic of the meticulous and generally extremely foresighted professor. While Kissinger appeared willing to aid the Greek junta, he didn't even make a move to ease the Turkish invasion of Cyprus once the new Greek government was installed. For some reason, the repressive Greek military dictatorship could arouse sympathy and support that the new government is unable to get from Kissinger...
...solution to the Cyprus crisis is not taksim, the partition of the island into Greek and Turkish enclaves. Nor is enosis, union with Greece, feasible. As long as a Turkish minority resides in the midst of a Greek majority only strife and bloodshed will be the legacy for future generations. The mutual hatred that developed during the long centuries of Ottoman domination cannot be easily forgotten...
...Turkish Cypriots should be compensated for their property and repatriated to the Anatolian mainland among their Moslem brethren. This is the only lasting solution...