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...immediate hope is to end the nearly four years of bloodshed in triangular battles among British, Greek and Turkish forces and guerrillas...
...Turkey, not on speaking terms two months ago, seem mutually appalled by disorder's reign, and are making private efforts to narrow their differences. Greece's Ambassador to Turkey has been shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition, in favor of eventual independence for the island, with rights of the Turkish minority guaranteed...
...fabled Mullah Mustafa el Barzani. who returned from Russia last October to take command of the party's 2,000 members, and of the so-called Kurdish "army of liberation." pledged to carve a national home for 5,000,000 Kurds out of Turkish, Iranian and Iraqi territory...
...Greek Passion, a novel of spiritual ideas and earthy instances (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954), in which Nikos Kazantzakis retold the story of Christ's Passion as a modern occasion. The scene is set in a Greek village that has grown rich and careful under the tolerant Turkish dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas is a well-known hell raiser...
...only one respect is the statement about lack of progress correct, and that is in describing the Turkish position. Whereas five years ago Turkey said next to nothing about Cyprus, the issue is now considered important enough for the Turkish foreign minister to make the trip to the UN this year to put forth his country's claim personally. It is hoped, however, that the Turks can be persuaded to see that their true interest lies in dropping their ridiculous claim for partition (even the British have ruled partition out as unfeasible) and instead of further exacerbating the situation...