Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever becoming part of Greece, Cyprus would probably become a member of NATO, would be allied to both Greece and Turkey and, besides maintaining its own army, would be garrisoned by a combined Greek-Turkish-Cypriot force. Britain, which has made Cyprus its main military bastion in the eastern Mediterranean, would keep its bases on the island. In securing such guarantees for the Turkish minority, and in introducing Turkish troops on the island for the first time since the Ottoman Turks turned over the island to Disraeli in 1878, Menderes had proven the harder bargainer. In making hard concessions...
Even a decade ago, so successful a Drang nach Osten seemed hardly possible, for twice in 30 years calamitous wars wiped out Germany's stake in the lands curving about the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Yet in ten years, West German exports to Greece, Turkey and the Middle East have jumped from less than $10 million a year to $500 million...
...historic document establishing the Mediterranean island as a republic was initialed tonight in a London hospital room by the prime ministers of Britain, Greece and Turkey...
...proposal lie in the concurrent majority scheme itself. When the Turkish vice-president uses his veto, how will it be accepted by the Greek majority which will control two-thirds of the single-chambered legislature. It would be naive to assume that from now on life will be a Mediterranean idyll for the people of Cyprus...
...long regarded by the British as one of their chief undercover foes in the years of battling over the eastern Mediterranean island bastion...