Greece, Turkey, NATO and the Cyprus Issue 1973–1988 : Enemies Allied

The volume examines one of the most sensitive issues in the contemporary diplomatic history of the eastern Mediterranean, namely, the nexus between Greece, Turkey, the Cyprus problem and NATO in the crucial period between 1973 and 1988.Beginning with the emergence of the Aegean dispute in 1973 and ending with the most comprehensive attempt to date to solve the Greek–Turkish conflict in the wake of the Davos rapprochement process in 1988.The analysis in this book goes back to developments that occurred in the first half of the 20th century.