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...invasion, Ecevit went before the Turkish Parliament, whose 635 members have usually greeted his appearances without enthusiasm. Not this time. After Ecevit made a 90-minute explanation of why he had ordered the invasion, members gave him a ten-minute standing ovation. Ecevit asked for a declaration of war against Greece if one became necessary-and the cheering legislators left no doubt that they would happily grant...
...quickly sour after the euphoria of the successful invasion dissipated in the face of problems requiring solution. Foremost among them was how to bring peace to Cyprus short of stationing a standing army there. No one believes that Greek Cypriots would accept union with Turkey or rule by a Turkish Cypriot. One solution might be to have a Greek moderate acceptable to both island communities take over the presidency, or even have Makarios return. Another, less likely possibility is the old idea of double enosis-or taksim, in Turkish-under which Greek enclaves would be annexed to Athens and Turkish...
...modern times they fought in 1896-97 over Crete, which eventually went to Greece after a brief spell of independence, and in 1920 over Izmir, a Turkish province on the Aegean...
TIME Correspondents William Marmon and Karsten Prager were in Nicosia when invading Turkish troops began landing. Their eyewitness report from the Cypriot capital...
...Ledra Palace Hotel is almost smack on the Green Line that runs through Nicosia, dividing the Turkish sector from the Greek. Most of the hotel guests were awakened Saturday morning by a long burst of weapons fire...