They told me that Turkey and Greece were on the brink of military confrontation and implored me to intervene to stop it.

他们告诉我，土耳其和希腊正处于军事对峙的边缘，恳求我进行干涉以阻止冲突。

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Greece wanted to end the Turkish military presence in Cyprus and find a resolution that would at least allow the Greeks the possibility of returning to the north.

希腊希望土耳其从塞浦路斯撤军，并想找到一个至少让希腊人返回北部的解决方案。

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What Bean didn't point out, because everyone knew it, was that Greece was part of the New Warsaw Pact, and it was quite possible that Greek military craft might be acting under Russian command.

不用比恩强调，大家都明白希腊是新华沙公约的成员国，很有可能那些希腊飞机是在俄国指挥下行动的。

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Such emergency legislation has only been used nine times since the collapse of Greece's military dictatorship in 1974.

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The IOC delegation did not talk about security - perhaps the main international concern about holding the Games in Athens following the recent murder of Britain's military attache to Greece.

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They were accused of plotting to bomb mosques and trying to trigger a war with Greece in order to justify a military coup against the elected government of Mr Erdogan in 2003.

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