Word: turkishly
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...trade with the Soviet Union." Portugal has declared that treaties granting the U.S. bases in the Azores "should be rediscussed," also hints that it may recognize Communist China. Greek demonstrators, enraged over U.S. policy toward Cyprus, last week burned President Johnson in effigy, waved signs showing him in a Turkish fez, shouted "Bravo, Russia...
Stavros has a fezfull of motives for leaving his home. His people, the Greeks, live in terror and humiliation under despotic Turkish rule. When his weak-kneed father decides to move the family to Constantinople, where there is less danger, Stavros has already resolved to quit Turkey and travel to the United States. As the eldest son, he is sent on ahead to invest the household treasures in the capital. And the hardships begin. The boy kills a shiftless Turk who has robbed him, loses a second cache in a brothel, and nearly dies in a raided meeting of revolutionaries...
...stubbornly insist that any draft resolution contain a reminder that all U.N. members must refrain under the Charter from tampering by force with the territorial integrity and independence of other members-a device by which Makarios hopes to bar Turkey from interfering with his own island war against the Turkish Cypriot minority...
...island's security and return to normal, but also for facing certain other unpleasant situations." Guesses as to what these last might be ranged from repelling an invasion by Turkey to attacking the 7,000-man British garrison to trying to wipe out some of the isolated Turkish Cypriot positions, such as the schoolhouse in Polis where 700 men, women and children are surrounded by Greek Cypriot partisans. A British diplomat said, "Frankly, we don't know what's behind it," but added with feeling that anything that made Greek Cypriot irregulars into a disciplined force...
...Only the Turkish Cypriots thought they knew the truth. Said their spokesman, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk: "Using his so-called 5,000 'legal' forces, Makarios will exercise pressure on the Turks to deprive them of their arms. In short, the plan of Makarios is either to destroy or to enslave the Turks of Cyprus...