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Article: Islamists' advance threatens to reignite Greece-Turkey feud: Holbrooke sees Cyprus, region in peril.(World)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 12, 1996
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NICOSIA, Cyprus - Greece and Turkey are on a collision course again, with the emergence of the Islamic Refah party as Turkey's main political force seen by diplomats as a possible detonator for a major explosion.
NATO and the European Union are gradually becoming involved in what looms as a protracted crisis in the eastern Mediterranean.
Despite intense diplomatic activity, no miraculous solutions have appeared to a web of problems that include historic animosity, conflicting territorial claims and the Turkish military presence in Cyprus.
Cyprus, a nonaligned, predominantly Greek-speaking island whose northern part has been occupied by ...