Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eagerly read the truce offer of Colonel Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot EOKA. Next day the British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings in less than two months, breathed a sigh of relief...
...willingness to explore a settlement that would not insist on the future rights of enosis, i.e., the union of Cyprus with Greece. Turkey, too, was so absorbed by the revolutionary turmoil of her Arab neighbors that Cyprus for the first time in months was off the front pages of Turkish newspapers...
...Another conference was held the following day. The Greeks argued for liberal self-government for Cyprus that would "unite Cypriots, not divide them," and shied away from the British concept of "partnership" (Greece, Turkey and Britain all to have a voice in governing the island), and separate assemblies for Turkish and Greek Cypriots, because this seemed too close to the partition demanded by Turkey. Besides, argued the Greeks, such a plan would freeze into law the hostility between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that has developed only in recent months...
Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans, was disturbed by the widespread reports that Premier Adnan Menderes was about to order his army into Iraq in the days immediately following the Baghdad revolt. Following the precept laid down by Ataturk, Inonu believes that it must be a cardinal principle of Turkish policy never to interfere in the affairs of the onetime subject peoples of the Ottoman Empire. He warned that hostility to Iraq was "not in the interests of our country" and roundly condemned the government for publicly approving the U.S. and British landings in the Middle East. "The interventions...
...Runs, Sweet Caps, and Richmond Straight Cut, which young gentlemen did not smoke. Egyptian Deities, which cost 25 cents for 10, were fashionable; but, owing to a rumor that Shevlin, the Yale football captain, collected a royalty on every package we boycotted them." Acceptable smokes of the day were Turkish Delight, Egyptian Prettiest, Pharaoh's Daughter (Sweet Caporal still survives...