Crime in Cyprus - Eoka, People Murdered in Cyprus, Terrorism in Cyprus, Peter I of Cyprus, Polycarpos Georgadjis, Solomos Solomou, Sol Phryne (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Eoka, People Murdered in Cyprus, Terrorism in Cyprus, Peter I of Cyprus, Polycarpos Georgadjis, Solomos Solomou, Sol Phryne, Tassos Isaac, Enosis, Dervis Ali Kavazoglou, Fazl nder, Imprisoned Graves, Kutlu Adali, Battle of Spilia, Louise Jensen, Central Jail of Nicosia, Rodger Davies, Peka, Alkimos Neolaia Eoka, Red House Camp. Excerpt: EOKA (, Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (Greek for National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters)) but sometimes expanded as Ethnik Orgnosis Kipriako Agnos (Greek for National Organisation of Cypriot Struggle) was a Greek Cypriot nationalist military resistance organisation that fought for the end of British rule of the island, as well as for self-determination and for union with Greece (enosis). The United Kingdom had promised Greece that all the above would be a commitment to be fulfilled if Greece would enter World War I on the side of the Allies; the offer was withdrawn when Greece declined. EOKA engaged to free the Greek Cypriots from British rule. The leadership of AKEL at the time (a political party with communist roots), opposed EOKA's military action, advocating the Gandhiesque approach of civil disobedience such as workers' strikes and demonstrations. This came into direct contrast with the previous leadership who some 5 years ago had organised the plebiscite of 1950, where the vast majority of all Greek-Cypriots who voted were for the union with Greece (98%). This was organised by the Church and there are reports that the threat of excommunication was used to encourage voting for enosis.. EOKA was an anticolonial, antiimperialist nationalist organisation with the ultimate goal of "The liberation of Cyprus from the British yoke." Although not stated in its initial declaration of existence whi... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=554151