YUSUF KANLI
An old letter from TMT
In the 1966 secret talks between Turkey and Greece - that eventually led to the formal Keşan/Dedeağaç summit in 1967 - not only strained relations between Greek Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios and the Athens government but also caused some tensions between the Turkish National Resistance Movement (TMT) led by the late founding president of North Cyprus, Rauf Denktaş, and Ankara. The arrangement by the government of the then president of Turkey, Süleyman Demirel, for the return of the young Turkish Cypriot people to Turkish universities - a move that created a serious deficiency in TMT’s fighting power - along with the recall of colonel Kemal Coşkun, who organized the TMT, were some of the incidents perceived as an “abandonment” by hawks in TMT, who were led by Denktaş, against the then Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr. Fazil Küçük.
March 03 2021
