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Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu
Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu (April 4, 1924 – April 11, 1965) was a Turkish Cypriot member of the left wing AKEL party who was killed in 1965 by Turkish ultranationalist paramilitary group TMT. Assassination Kavazoğlu and Kostas Misiaoulis were proponents of peace between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities on the island of Cyprus during the period of intercommunal violence. Whilst both were members of AKEL, Misiaoulis was also a PEO trade union official. The two were shot to death on April 11, 1965, when they were ambushed on the Nicosia – Larnaca road, near the village of Goshi. Both are held as symbols of Greek-Turkish solidarity and were commemorated in an event attended by Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias in 2008. See also * |
Peristeronopigi
Peristeronopigi or Pigi–Peristerona (;A village located in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, south of Lefkoniko, in the Mesaoria plain. Historically, Peristeronopigi consisted of two continuous villages: Peristerona (meaning "pigeon nest") in the south and Pigi ("water well") in the north. Peristeronopigi is under the ''de facto'' control of Northern Cyprus. As of 2011, it had a population of 860. History The village was recorded as early as the early 13th century in papal documents. Peristeronopigi was a mixed village until 1958. Due to intercommunal strife, all of the approximately 200 Turkish Cypriots were displaced from the village in 1958 and took refuge in Maratha and the town of Famagusta. The second displacement took place in 1974, when all the Greek Cypriots (around 1,700) from Peristeronopigi fled from the advancing Turkish army. In 1975, Turkish Cypriots from Klavdia () settled in Peristeronopigi illegally. Notable people * Ephraim of Vatopedi (born 1956), Abbot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitris Christofias
Dimitris (Δημήτρης) is the Modern Greek form of the older forms Demetrios, Dimitrios (Δημήτριος, usually Latinized as Demetrius) and may refer to: * Dimitris Arvanitis (born 1980), Greek professional football defender who plays for OFI Crete in Greek Super League * Dimitris Avramopoulos (born 1953), Greek politician and diplomat *Dimitris Basis, Greek singer musician * Dimitris Bogdanos (born 1975), Greek professional basketball player * Dimitris Christofias, left-wing Greek Cypriot politician, President of the Republic of Cyprus * Dimitris Diamantidis (born 1980), Greek professional basketball player * Dimitris Dimakopoulos (born 1966), retired Greek professional basketball player * Dimitris Dimitrakos (born 1936), Greek philosopher, currently Professor at the University of Athens * Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001), Greek composer of classical music * Dimitris Drosos (born 1966), Greek businessman, ex-chairman of AEK Athens BC, current chairman of PAOK BC * Dimitri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deaths By Firearm In Cyprus
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Assassinated Cypriot Politicians
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important. It may be prompted by political, ideological, religious, financial, or military motives. Assassinations are ordered by both individuals and organizations, and are carried out by their accomplices. Acts of assassination have been performed since ancient times. A person who carries out an assassination is called an assassin. Etymology ''Assassin'' comes from the Italian and French Assissini, believed to derive from the word ''hashshashin'' (), and shares its etymological roots with ''hashish'' ( or ; from ').''The Assassins: a radical sect in Islam'' – Bernard Lewis, pp. 11–12 It referred to a group of Nizari Ismailis known as the Order of Assassins who worked against various political targets. Founded by Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the Near East from the 11th to the 13th centuries. The group killed members of the Abbasid, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Cypriot Politicians
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1965 Deaths
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1924 Births
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İnkılâpçı
''İnkılâpçı'' ("Revolutionary") was a weekly newspaper in Cyprus, closed in 1955. History İnkılâpçı ''(Revolutionary)'' was first published on 13 September 1955. The newspaper would be published for 15 weeks, in that period of time being viewed as the voice of the working classes; it published articles regarding all of the important social and economical subjects of those days. But after the British colonial administration declared and emergency situation on 14 December 1955, the newspaper was closed together with ''Neos Democratis'', the daily newspaper of AKEL. Initially AKEL, and then the leftist villager's, socialist youth and women's organizations were outlawed, with many leftists arrested and imprisoned. As it can be understood from the article under the title ''"Threat"'', published in the last issue of İnkılâpçı on 12 December 1955, the then Turkish Cypriot leadership and its underground organisations sent letters of threat to the publishing team of İnkıl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Party Of Working People
The Progressive Party of Working People (, , ΑΚΕΛ or AKEL; ) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–LeninistHelena Smith, Cyprus gets ready for a communist 'takeover''The Guardian 2008 communist party in Cyprus. AKEL is one of the two major parties in Cyprus, and it supports a federation, federal solution of the internal aspect of the Cyprus problem and it places particular emphasis on rapprochement with the Turkish Cypriots. It supported entry into the European Union with certain reservations. Initially supportive of the Annan Plan in 2004, the AKEL ultimately opposed the plan because the UN Security Council did not provide guarantees on post-reunification security. As a strong supporter of welfare benefits and nationalization, AKEL successfully put into practice several social measures to support the economic welfare of Cypriots during the Great Recession, such as increasing low pensions by 30% and strengthening the welfare benefits given to university students to €12 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayhan Hikmet
Ayhan Hikmet was a Turkish Cypriot who was allegedly assassinated by the Turkish paramilitary group TMT. He was a trained barrister, and editor of the Turkish Cypriot weekly newspaper ''Cumhuriyet''. On 23 April 1962, masked men broke into his home and shot him in the presence of his wife. His two children were asleep in another room. On the same day, his friend and colleague Ahmet Muzaffer Gürkan, who founded ''Cumhuriyet'' and served as its first editor, was also murdered. He was found dead in his car on the outskirts of Nicosia the following morning. Both men had been instrumental in founding the Cyprus Turkish People's Party in October 1961, which in its first manifesto had been critical of the Turkish Cypriot leaders, eschewed partition, and called on Turkish Cypriots to support a united Cyprus. Following their murders ''Cumhuriyet'' ceased to be published. President Makarios described the murders as an “odious crime” against individuals who had “ranged themsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazıl Önder
Fazıl Önder (1926 – 1958) was a Turkish Cypriot journalist who was assassinated. Biography Fazıl Önder was born in Omorphita in 1926. He completed primary school, but was unable to attend secondary school for financial reasons. Thereafter, along with his brother Cemal, he embarked on an apprenticeship in a saddle shop. After the completion of his apprenticeship, he founded a saddle shop of his own with a business partner. From 1949 onwards, he signed up for membership to various trade unions, including the Pancyprian Federation of Labour. In 1951, he started working at the ''Turkish Literature Club (Turk Edebiyat Kulup)''. British educated lawyer Ayhan Hikmet, along with Ahmet Malyo, Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu, Mehmet Edisoğlu, and Önder had created this group to further educate themselves in politics, economics, and ideology, as well as encourage the spread of socialism to members and non-members alike through their activities. The organisation also served as a hub for people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicosia
Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia and Lefkoşa, is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. It is the southeasternmost of all EU member states' capital cities. Nicosia has been continuously inhabited for over 5,500 years and has been the capital of Cyprus since the 10th century. It is the last divided capital in Europe; three years after Cyprus gained independence from British rule in 1960, the Bloody Christmas conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots triggered intercommunal violence, and Nicosia's Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities segregated into its south and north respectively in 1964. A decade later, Turkey invaded Cyprus following Greece's successful attempt to take over the island. The leaders of the takeover would later step down, but the dividing line running through Nicosia (and the rest of the island, interrupted only briefly by British military bases) became a demilitarised zone that remains under the control of Cyprus while heavil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
