Greek Cypriot leftist party remembers 1974 coup on island as ‘act of treason’

ANKARA 

The Greek Cypriot celebration AKEL remembered the coup of 1974 on the island by the intense nationalist EOKA-B terror group shaped by Georgios Grivas as an act of treason, native media reported Wednesday. 

Laying a wreath on the Democracy and Resistance Monument in Larnaca, Stefanos Stefanou, common secretary of the key leftist celebration within the Greek Cypriot administration, mentioned the coup on July 15, 1974 was a treacherous act deliberate by Grivas.

“We’re right here to honor the useless resistance fighters murdered by Grivas’s EOKA-B, all those that resisted the treacherous coup of the (Greek navy) junta and EOKA-B,” Stefanou mentioned.

Additionally talking on the occasion, Tasos Savva, president of the Affiliation of Democratic Resistance, mentioned: “We honor all those that watered with their blood the tree of democracy and resistance towards the fascism of the junta and EOKA-B.”

Lately, the Greek Cypriot administration determined to transform Azina Home, a hideout that Grivas used, to honor the founding father of the ultra-nationalist group that systematically focused Turkish Cypriots in a collection of terrorist assaults.

EOKA terror group

Based by Grivas in 1954, EOKA staged its first terrorist assault a yr later, although its major goal was to battle towards the British occupiers of the island within the East Mediterranean.

It then directed its assaults towards Turkish Cypriots in 1958, in keeping with its objectives of clearing the island of Turks and uniting it with Greece.

Personally commanded by Grivas, EOKA militias attacked the Erenkoy space, immediately a western exclave of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), on Aug. 6, 1964 and have been confronted by Turkish college college students and resistance fighters.

Happening in historical past as a part of the Erenkoy resistance, a complete of 18 Turkish Cypriots have been killed by EOKA terrorists.

Greek and Greek Cypriot troops together with EOKA militias commanded by Grivas additionally attacked the Gecitkale space, the place they dedicated a mass slaughter. Twenty Turkish Cypriots have been killed and buried in mass graves by the perpetrators.

EOKA terrorists commanded by Grivas and the Greek Cypriot Nationwide Guard additionally tortured 27 individuals to demise within the villages of Kofinou and Agios Theodoros, burying their our bodies in a mass grave. All the victims of the EOKA terrorists in these villages have been civilians.

Whereas Grivas was in Greece from 1959-1964, EOKA terrorists carried out extra assaults, together with the notorious “Bloody Christmas” bloodbath, additionally known as Black Christmas, during which they killed greater than 370 Turkish Cypriots and displaced 25,000-30,000 others throughout the Christmas season of 1963.

Through the lethal terror marketing campaign, 109 Turkish villages have been pressured to evacuate, whereas over 2,500 Turkish properties have been severely broken or demolished, in line with a UN report launched on Sept. 10, 1964.

Grivas then in 1971 based EOKA-B, which adopted an ultra-right-wing nationalistic ideology and had the last word aim of reaching the enosis (union) of Cyprus island with Greece.

Although Grivas died in January 1974, EOKA-B, inspired by the Greek navy junta and in cooperation with the nationwide guard, staged a navy coup on July 15, 1974, which subsequently led to Türkiye’s navy intervention as a guarantor energy to guard Turkish Cypriots from persecution and violence.

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