Two NATO Allies at the Threshold of War

by Parker T. Hart

As ambassador to Turkey during the Cyprus crisis (1965-1968), Parker T. Hart provides an insider's view of the management of that crisis in NATO and Greek-Turkish relations. Greece and most Greek Cypriots favored enosis (union with Greece), but Turkey and the Turk Cypriots were prepared to go to war to prevent such an annexation. A massacre of Turk Cypriot villagers in November 1967 focused the anger of Turkey, which was prepared to send troops to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822309777
• ISBN13: 9780822309772
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.