Question
During a 1974 military operation, this capital city’s Ledra Palace Hotel was assaulted by paratroopers who had earlier captured the highway supplying it from Kyrenia. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city, where a hospital containing British-held prisoners was stormed by EOKA (“ee-OH-kuh”) under Georgios Grivas. The Occupy Buffer Zone movement demonstrated against the Green Line in this city’s Eleftheria (“eh-leff-THEH-ree-uh”) Square.
ANSWER: Nicosia [or Nikusiya; or Lefkosía or Lefkoşa]
[10e] Two answers required. The Cypriot crisis severely strained relations between these two Aegean countries, who later engaged in friendly “earthquake diplomacy” after tremors devastated Athens and İzmit in 1999.
ANSWER: Greece AND Turkey [accept Hellas or the Hellenic Republic in place of “Greece”; accept the Republic of Türkiye in place of “Turkey”]
[10h] The ousting of this “ethnarch” and president of Cyprus with Nikos Sampson sparked Turkey’s 1974 invasion. This archbishop’s waning support for enosis, or union with Greece, sparked tension with the Greek junta.
ANSWER: Makarios III [or Michael Christodoulou Mouskos]
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