They watched hell coming and shut their eyes

“Criminal plots against the Cypriot state: coup and intervention.” That was Phileleftheros’s main front page on 12 August 1973.

The report was damning: “While Grivas’s coup plotters were drawing up plans to seize power and install a ‘revolutionary leadership’ (…) Turkish forces are already on full alert and ready to intervene to seize the province of Kyrenia, which would mean the definitive partition of Cyprus.”...