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In Nicosia the radio station is blown …
Years: 1955 - 1955
April
In Nicosia the radio station is blown up.
Grivas circulates his first proclamation as leader of EOKA under his code name Dighenis (a hero of Cypriot mythology), and what will be a four-year revolutionary struggle is launched.
According to captured EOKA documents, Cypriot communists are not to be accepted for membership and are enjoined to stand clear of the struggle if they are sincerely interested in enosis.
The Turkish Cypriots are described as compatriots in the effort against an alien ruler; they too are simply asked to stand clear, to refrain from opposition, and to avoid any alliance with the British.
Grivas circulates his first proclamation as leader of EOKA under his code name Dighenis (a hero of Cypriot mythology), and what will be a four-year revolutionary struggle is launched.
According to captured EOKA documents, Cypriot communists are not to be accepted for membership and are enjoined to stand clear of the struggle if they are sincerely interested in enosis.
The Turkish Cypriots are described as compatriots in the effort against an alien ruler; they too are simply asked to stand clear, to refrain from opposition, and to avoid any alliance with the British.
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- Christians, Eastern Orthodox
- Turkish people
- Greeks (Modern)
- Greece, Kingdom of
- Turkey, Republic of
- Cyprus, British Crown Colony of
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
- United Nations, The (U.N.)
- EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, or Greek National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters)
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Years: 1955 - 1955
April
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Eastern Orthodox
- Turkish people
- Greeks (Modern)
- Greece, Kingdom of
- Turkey, Republic of
- Cyprus, British Crown Colony of
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
- United Nations, The (U.N.)
- EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, or Greek National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters)
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Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions