At the same time, Turkish prime minister…

July 1974 CE

At the same time, Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit flies to London to elicit British aid in a joint effort in Cyprus, as called for in the 1959 Treaty of Guarantee, but the British are either unwilling or unprepared and decline to take action as a guarantor power.

The United States takes no action to bolster the Makarios government, but Joseph J. Sisco, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, goes to London and the eastern Mediterranean to stave off the impending Turkish invasion and the war between Greece and Turkey that might follow.

The Turks demand removal of Nikos Sampson and the Greek officers from the National Guard and a binding guarantee of Cypriot independence.

Sampson, of course, is expendable to the Athens regime, but Sisco can get an agreement only to reassign the six hundred and fifty Greek officers.

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Nicosia > Levkosía Nicosia Cyprus View →

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Bülent Ecevit View → Glafcos Clerides View → Joseph J. Sisco View → Makarios III View → Nikos Sampson View →

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Turkish people View → Greeks (Modern) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Turkey, Republic of View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) View → United Nations, The (U.N.) View → Cyprus, Republic of View → EOKA-B (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, or Greek National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) View → Greece (Hellenic Republic) View →

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Cold War View → Greek military junta (Regime of the Colonels) View → Turkish invasion of Cyprus, or Greek-Turkish Cypriot War of 1974, View →

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Conflict View → Mayhem View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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