A new crisis rekindles intercommunal tensions on…

January 1972 CE

A new crisis rekindles intercommunal tensions on Cyprus in January 1972, when an Athens newspaper reports that the Makarios government has received a shipment of Czechoslovakian arms.

The guns are intended for Makarios's own elite guard; the Greek government, hoping to overthrow Makarios through Grivas, EOKA B, and the National Guard, objects to the import of the arms.

The authorities in Ankara are more than willing to join Athens in such a protest, and both governments demand that the Czechoslovakian munitions be turned over to UNFICYP.

Makarios is eventually forced to comply.

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Nicosia > Levkosía Nicosia Cyprus View →

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Fazıl Küçük View → Georgios Grivas View → Glafcos Clerides View → Makarios III View → Rauf Denktaş View →

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Turkish people View → Greeks (Modern) View → Greece, Kingdom of View → Turkey, Republic of View → United Nations, The (U.N.) View → Czechoslovak Socialist Republic View → Cyprus, Republic of View →

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Cold War View → Greek military junta (Regime of the Colonels) View →

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Weapons View →

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Commerce View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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