Wht is it that the British and the Americans have always shown a fondness and a weakness for the Turks? This is a question we Greeks often ask ourselves and it looms larger today when our own love and affection for our western allies appears to have been basely betrayed.
The two or three weeks before the referendum on the monarchy provoked a great deal of enthusiasm and not a little rancour between people who had heretofore been the best of friends. Peaceful dinners were transformed into battlegrounds and even the sacred family unit in some cases was split asunder.
The definitive abolition of the monarchy was a long-awaited step and the results of the
THE results of our first parliamentary elections in ten years came as a surprise to a great many people, not because they were won by the New Democracy party of Constantine Karamanlis but because of this party’s unprecedented majority.
On Sunday, November 17, we go to the polls to elect a new Parliament — the first since the Chamber of Deputies was dissolved on April 14, 1967 as a preliminary to the May 28 election which was prevented by the military coup of April 21.
