Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXX, Greece; Cyprus; Turkey, 1973–1976

Editor:

Laurie Van Hook

General Editor:

Edward C. Keefer

United States Government Printing Office
Washington
2007

Office of the Historian
Bureau of Public Affairs

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Sources
• Abbreviations and Terms
• Persons
• Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, 1973–1976
• Greece (Documents 1-71)
• Cyprus (Documents 72-194)
• Turkey (Documents 195-247)
• Index
• Errata

Overview

This volume has three chapters: U.S. relations with Greece; the U.S. response to the Cyprus issue, which erupted into a crisis with the Turkish invasion of the eastern portion of the island in mid-1974; and U.S. relations with Turkey. The chapters on Greece and Turkey focus on bilateral relations and events in those countries. The chapter on Cyprus documents a multilateral relationship among Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Greece, Turkey, the United Nations, Great Britain, and the United States. Experts in Washington feared that Greece and Turkey, two NATO members already at odds over oil exploration in the Aegean Sea, might go to war over Cyprus and destroy NATO’s southern flank. The Cyprus chapter, therefore, has a high component of contingency planning and intelligence assessments and is documented in greater detail than the other two chapters. Where Greece or Turkey had an interest in Cyprus, the documentation is placed in the Cyprus chapter, although it was sometimes impossible to separate bilateral issues from Cyprus.