Colonel Georges Papadopoulos, military dictator of Greece, launches a coup d’état against Orthodox Archbishop and President Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos (a.k.a. Makarios III), of Cyprus, and installs Nikos Sampson as a puppet dictator. As the only President of Cyprus (since independence in 1960) the ethnically Greek Moskos was able to maintain a friendly relationship with his island nation’s Turkish Moslem minority.
Postscript: A week later Sampson was forced to flee Cyprus as the Armed Forces of Turkey had invaded Cyprus.
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References:
Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, (New York: Metropolitan, 2004), 206.
Makarios III – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makarios_III
President of Cyprus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Cyprus
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