Lieutenant Colonel Georgios Grivas (known as Dighenis), a Greek Cypriot and former leader of a right-wing resistance group in the Athens area during the wartime German occupation, in 1955 organizes EOKA (Ethnikí Orgánosis Kipriakoú Agónos, or National Organization of Cypriot Struggle).

The self-determination movement forces, encouraged by the Orthodox cleric Makarios III, begin a guerrilla war for enosis against British occupying forces, together with terrorist attacks on the island's Turkish minority.

EOKA bombs public buildings and attacks and kills both Greek-Cypriot and British opponents of enosis.

When Greece’s negotiations with Britain and Turkey fail in 1955 amid political violence stirred by the Greek-Cypriot EOKA) ...