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...Turkish Passions. The Turkish Parliament openly fretted when Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, apparently seek ing a peaceful solution, flew off to Lon don for conferences with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, as well as the U.S. State Department's Sisco. Turks feared that Ecevit might buckle once again, as Turkey has twice done in the past decade, rather than go to war over Cyprus. Instead, Ecevit took a hard line...
...firmly demanded withdrawal of the Greek officers from the island. Unless his terms were met, he warned, Turkey would exercise its treaty rights to move into the island and restore independence. His listeners believed the Prime Minister was bluffing. It was a serious underestimation of Turkish passions over Cyprus...
Also in the air was Sisco, flying in Kissinger's blue and white jet between Athens and Ankara, searching for solutions. He had been dispatched at the beginning of the week merely as a fact finder; when the Turkish ultimatum began to run out, he turned into a mediator, attempting to persuade the Turks to be patient and putting leverage on the Greeks to be generous...
...protect negotiations with Greece on home-port facilities for the U.S. Navy, he had not been forceful enough in criticizing the Greek regime. The U.S. confined its public comment on Greece to support of Cyprus' "independence and territorial integrity and its constitutional arrangements." Not until after the Turkish invasion did the U.S. finally acknowledge publicly what many other nations had been saying all week-that the Greek government had directly contributed to Makarios' downfall. At a press conference, Kissinger denied that U.S. policy had been indecisive or biased toward Greece. He said that his prime concern...
Actually Ecevit's government had already decided on an invasion. Even as Sisco sat with the Prime Minister on the midnight before the landings took place, the Turkish fleet was approaching Kyrenia and pilots were manning their planes. With Turkish passions for action running so high, Ecevit was certain that his government would fall if it backed down. Moreover he sensed that no country was eager to recognize Sampson as President of Cyprus and thus no major power would complain too much if Sampson was toppled...