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Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus is both spiritual leader of 500,000 Greek Cypriots and President of the island's Greek-Turkish secular government. Lately, his problems have been mostly temporal, as the Greek government in Athens pressured him with humiliating ultimatums in an effort to either throttle his power or force him out of office (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week, for a change, the archbishop was experiencing ecclesiastical complications. At the annual synod of the Cypriot hierarchy, three bishops invoked a canon law-unused for at least a hundred years-forbidding bishops to hold church and state posts simultaneously...
...Istanbul, a 14-year-old English tourist, Timothy Davey, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison on charges of conspiring to sell more than 50 Ibs. of hashish. As a public uproar erupted in Britain, the Turkish embassy in London vainly noted that the schoolboy could have received a much more severe sentence. The outraged British found the Turkish court's heavy-handed treatment of the boy difficult to understand. For centuries, Turkish farmers have grown fields of poppies that have become a prime source of the heroin sold in the U.S. Only last June...
...Greeks and Turks was gripped by its most severe crisis since 1967, when war between Greece and Turkey nearly broke out over Cyprus. The majority (78%) Greeks and the minority Turks are still unable to agree on a compromise form of government that would acknowledge Greek power but protect Turkish rights. Since last summer the Greek and Turkish governments have both indicated willingness to help find a solution; both intend to participate in renewed talks scheduled for next month between the two Cypriot communities...
National Unity. The Greek Premier warned Makarios, in effect, to let the Greco-Turkish talks proceed and abide by their formulas, whatever the outcome might be. The Premier also advised Makarios to form a government of "national unity" with Grivas supporters as part...
...time when the Turks were enforcing their rule by slaughtering the Armenian minority. He was spirited out of the country in a Gladstone suitcase and taken to England, where he attended Harrow and Cambridge. Though for many years he claimed Iranian nationality and in 1965 regained his Turkish citizenship, he spent most of his life in England...