Roots of Greek/Turkey Antagonism

The paper focuses on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, partitioned for the past quarter century between Turks and Greeks. Cyprus remains one of the intransigent spots of the world, one of those places that seems incapable of finding peace in largest measure because the ongoing tensions and ethnic animosities of Turkey and Greece are played out in their most visible way on this island. (These tensions are exacerbated by the fact that, as in the case of nearly every place that has been invaded as often as has the island of Cyprus, the people there long for a sense of both safety and independence, regardless of the personal ties individuals may feel to either Greece or Turkey).

The reasons why Cyprus should find it so hard to find peace has deep historical and cultural roots that may s

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Mediterranean countries set up scattered settlements along the coasts and the first Greek colony is believed to have been founded by traders from Arcadia about 1400 bc. The Phoenicians began to colonize the island about 800 bc (Wernick, 1999, p. 96). Beginning with the rise of Assyria during the 8th century bc, Cyprus was under the control of each of the empires that successively dominated the eastern Mediterranean. Assyrian authority was followed by Egyptian occupation (550 bc), then Persian (525 bc). During the Persian occupation King Evagoras I, ruler of the Cypriot city of Salamis, made the first recorded attempt to unify the city-states of Cyprus. In 391 bc Evagoras, with the aid of Athens, led a successful revolt against Persia and temporarily made himself master of the island. Shortly after his death, however, Cyprus again became a Persian possession (Wernick, 1999, pp. 97-98). For almost a thousand years thereafter control of the island passed from empire to empire. Alexander the Great took Cyprus from Persia in 333 BC, and after his death in 323 BC the island again became an Egyptian possession, under the Ptolemies. Rome gained control in 58 BC. In 1191 Cyprus was seized by Richard I of England, who gave it to Guy of Lusi
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