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Saturday, July 21, 2007

JTW News - Cyprus: Is Enosis still on the agenda?

"Cyprus: Is Enosis still on the agenda?

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When inter-communal talks between Turkish and Greek Cypriots started in 1968, two main ideas surfaced within the Greek Cypriot community.

One of these ideas envisaged a harsh military operation be launched to suppress the Turkish Cypriot resistance and enosis (the uniting of the the theisland of Cyprus with the Greek mainland state) to be proclaimed after the ethnic cleansing. The other envisaged the suppression of the Turkish Cypriots through economic and political pressure within the framework of a long-term program so that enosis could be carried out."

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