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That was not good enough for the Turkish Cabinet. It rejected the Greek reply as "unsatisfactory" and gave the Turkish military the signal to speed up preparations. Antiaircraft batteries suddenly appeared around Ankara, and troops in full battle dress lugged their gear aboard a 37-ship invasion fleet that assembled in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderon, only 40 miles from Cyprus. Greece's alarmed government and military leaders gathered at King Constantine's Tatoi Palace near Athens to draft a final appeal to Turkey...
...Turkish troops set foot on Cyprus, warned the Greeks, it would not only mean war with Greece but would inevitably start a slaughter of Turkish Cypriots that no number of Turkish soldiers would be able to prevent. Yet so great was the public pressure in Turkey on Premier Demirel for quick action that the Greeks themselves despaired that the warning could halt the train of events. Athens stopped broadcasting weather bulletins so that the Turkish air force could not use them to plot bombing missions. Reports from Turkey said that the invasion fleet was waiting only for the onset...
Under Vance's pleading, Demirel agreed to delay Turkish military measures until the U.S. envoy had an opportunity to sound out the Greek leaders. What Vance learned in Athens obviously pleased the Turks, who announced that they and the Greeks would accept the good office of Italy's Manlio Brosio, the NATO Secretary-General, as mediator in the dispute. It was a hopeful development, but by no means a permanent one. The situation remained so tense that a handful of men with submachine guns on Cyprus could wipe out the diplomatic achievements in a matter of seconds...
...Turkey," is a remarkably heterogeneous collection of 282 pieces done in Anatolia from 6000 B.C. through the sixteenth century A.D. It clearly illustrates the influence of civilizations on one another, the changes in style of a major mode caught in a peripheral age, and the exuberant flourishing of native Turkish...
Technically, there is no Turkish art at all at the exhibit. No objects date from the founding of the Turkish Republic and few are the work of the Seljuk or Ottoman Turks...