Word: turkishly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...troops needed may come from such countries as Canada, Ireland and Sweden, with their governments footing the bill. An "advisory group," drawn possibly from Brazil, Morocco and Norway, will supervise the peacekeeping work, and a "neutral mediator," as yet unchosen, will be charged with getting the Greek and Turkish Cypriots to work out a solution within a three-month period...
...trouble started at the nearby village of Episkopi, one of the few still sheltering a mixed population of Greek and Turkish Cypriots. According to Greek sources, a Turkish police sergeant in charge of a four-man detail relieved his two Greek cops of duty and then phoned headquarters in Limassol to say he was no longer taking orders from the Greek Cypriot chief of police...
...12th century castle where England's Richard the Lion-Hearted married Berengaria of Navarre. British troops from the adjacent Akrotiri airfield finally separated the antagonists and won agreement to a ceasefire. But then the Greek Cypriots, supported by two homemade tanks, launched a dawn assault on the Turkish quarter...
...darkening outside Cyprus as well. Turkey, furious at the slaughter of its outnumbered (4 to 1) compatriots, rushed an army division to the seaport of Iskenderun, only 125 miles from Cyprus, assembled naval units for what was described as "maneuvers." Greece, which could ordinarily be expected to counter any Turkish move, was preoccupied with a national election...
...shifting the crisis to the U.N. would give leverage to the Soviet Union, which can spoil any project the West pursues. At its own option, Russia can veto the Anglo-American proposal, thereby inviting a Turkish invasion of the island as the only means of rescuing Turkish Cypriots, or it can agree to the establishment of the force if it includes Communist troops, thus moving toward the historic Russian ambition of gaining a foothold in the Mediterranean...