Working against Makarios is the fact that …
Years: 1972 - 1972
January
Working against Makarios is the fact that most officers of the Cypriot National Guard are Greek regulars who support the junta and its desire to remove him from office and achieve some degree of enosis.
Grivas is also a threat to the archbishop.
He remains powerful and to some extent is independent of the junta that had permitted his return to Cyprus.
Whereas the Greek colonels are at times prepared to make a deal with Turkey about Cyprus, Grivas is ferociously opposed to any arrangement that does not lead to complete enosis.
Grivas is also a threat to the archbishop.
He remains powerful and to some extent is independent of the junta that had permitted his return to Cyprus.
Whereas the Greek colonels are at times prepared to make a deal with Turkey about Cyprus, Grivas is ferociously opposed to any arrangement that does not lead to complete enosis.
Locations
People
Groups
- Turkish people
- Greeks (Modern)
- Greece, Kingdom of
- Turkey, Republic of
- United Nations, The (U.N.)
- Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
- Cyprus, Republic of
