The coup
Dear Sir / madam, I am writing to ask for an opinion from Amnesty International , and draw your attention to the situation in Cyprus. I will outline a brief history as follows. During the early years of the 1970's the United States asked for permission to put a military airbase in Cyprus as it feared the country would became a Mediteranean Cuba and have communist involvement. The Cypriot government refused.. In response to this, the United States backed a military junta in Athens led by the Greek National Gaurd. This was acheived by Americans injecting funds into Greece. The junta spread to cyprus and the Greek National Gaurd present there led by Greek officers overthrew the government. Another reason for the spread to Cyprus as well as the Greek National gaurd, was the junta was right wing and involved the right wing nationalist movement, the Aoka. Nikos Samson became the New government in Cyprus. He was ultra nationalist and fantaically anti-Turkish. In July 1974 the Turkish army...