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🔴 Cyprus’ EOKA struggle of 1955-59 to overthrow British colonial rule is commemorated on April 1st
>https://archive.is/zk222
EOKA - Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters)
🔸 EOKA was a Cypriot nationalist paramilitary organisation that fought a campaign for the end of British rule in Cyprus one of its main goals was Enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece)
🔸 EOKA was headed by Georgios Grivas, a Greek Army officer, World War I and World War II veteran. During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, he led a small, anti-communist resistance group, named Organization X
⚠️ shortly after midnight on April 1, 1955, 18 bombs shook Cyprus and marked the beginning of the EOKA Struggle. From be beginning of the armed conflict to the end of June 1955 EOKA performed 204 attacks in several locations such as police stations and at the homes of British officers and soldiers
🔸 The "Turkish Cypriot" community objected to Enosis long before the 1950s from fear that unification with Greece would lead to their persecution and expulsion. Paramilitary armed groups, such as "Turkish Cypriot Resistance Unit", "Black Gang" and Volkan, appeared as early as May 1955. All of them were absorbed later by TMT which was Turkey's tool to fuel intercommunal violence in order to show that partition was the only possible arrangement
⚠️ In August 1955, the Turkish president at the time, announced that Turkey wouldn't accept any change in the status quo of Cyprus which were not in Turkeys interests. Rumors were spreading in Turkish media that a slaughter of the Turkish Cypriot community was likely to occur, even though they were unfounded, they led to the government-sponsored anti-Greek Istanbul pogrom of September 1955
‼️ Intercommunal (and intra-communal) violence escalated in the summer of 1958 with numerous fatalities. French counted 55 assassinations of Turks by Greeks, and 59 assassinations of Greeks by Turks between 7 June-7 August
⚠️ On November 1956 due to the Suez Crisis large numbers of British troops were transferred off Cyprus. EOKA launched a wave of attacks known to the British as "Black November" with a total of 416 attacks that left 39 dead 21 of them were British
⚠️ From 1956 to 1957, there were 246 attacks until March 31 1957 including an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the British governor. Army and police facilities were attacked totaling 104 house bombings, 53 riots, 136 acts of Sabotage, 403 ambushes, 35 attacks on police, 38 attacks on soldiers and 43 raids on police stations
🔸 The most glorious battle for EOKA was the Battle of Spilia, fought on 12 December 1955 when 12 Greeks took on 700 British soldiers in the Troodos mountains and won. The British Army attempted to encircle the headquarters of EOKA, but it did not work out that way. Instead Georgios Grivas, leader of the EOKA guerrilla organisation, divided fighters in two as the British came up the mountain in two units. EOKA then retreated to the summit of the mountain after fighting the British in heavy fog. Eventually the British reached the summit in heavy fog and thought they surrounded the EOKA fighters and begun shooting and calling airstrikes at each other for over 8 hours. In this battle, the British suffered 127 deaths, 102 injuries and 21 missing. A lot of this came from the confusion EOKA made by withdrawing from their positions in heavy fog with two British units fighting against each other, with EOKA only having to pick off straddlers and did not lose a single man
⚠️ The campaign of the EOKA formally ended on March 31, 1959
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🔴 Cyprus’ EOKA struggle of 1955-59 to overthrow British colonial rule is commemorated on April 1st
>https://archive.is/zk222
EOKA - Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters)
🔸 EOKA was a Cypriot nationalist paramilitary organisation that fought a campaign for the end of British rule in Cyprus one of its main goals was Enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece)
🔸 EOKA was headed by Georgios Grivas, a Greek Army officer, World War I and World War II veteran. During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, he led a small, anti-communist resistance group, named Organization X
⚠️ shortly after midnight on April 1, 1955, 18 bombs shook Cyprus and marked the beginning of the EOKA Struggle. From be beginning of the armed conflict to the end of June 1955 EOKA performed 204 attacks in several locations such as police stations and at the homes of British officers and soldiers
🔸 The "Turkish Cypriot" community objected to Enosis long before the 1950s from fear that unification with Greece would lead to their persecution and expulsion. Paramilitary armed groups, such as "Turkish Cypriot Resistance Unit", "Black Gang" and Volkan, appeared as early as May 1955. All of them were absorbed later by TMT which was Turkey's tool to fuel intercommunal violence in order to show that partition was the only possible arrangement
⚠️ In August 1955, the Turkish president at the time, announced that Turkey wouldn't accept any change in the status quo of Cyprus which were not in Turkeys interests. Rumors were spreading in Turkish media that a slaughter of the Turkish Cypriot community was likely to occur, even though they were unfounded, they led to the government-sponsored anti-Greek Istanbul pogrom of September 1955
‼️ Intercommunal (and intra-communal) violence escalated in the summer of 1958 with numerous fatalities. French counted 55 assassinations of Turks by Greeks, and 59 assassinations of Greeks by Turks between 7 June-7 August
⚠️ On November 1956 due to the Suez Crisis large numbers of British troops were transferred off Cyprus. EOKA launched a wave of attacks known to the British as "Black November" with a total of 416 attacks that left 39 dead 21 of them were British
⚠️ From 1956 to 1957, there were 246 attacks until March 31 1957 including an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the British governor. Army and police facilities were attacked totaling 104 house bombings, 53 riots, 136 acts of Sabotage, 403 ambushes, 35 attacks on police, 38 attacks on soldiers and 43 raids on police stations
🔸 The most glorious battle for EOKA was the Battle of Spilia, fought on 12 December 1955 when 12 Greeks took on 700 British soldiers in the Troodos mountains and won. The British Army attempted to encircle the headquarters of EOKA, but it did not work out that way. Instead Georgios Grivas, leader of the EOKA guerrilla organisation, divided fighters in two as the British came up the mountain in two units. EOKA then retreated to the summit of the mountain after fighting the British in heavy fog. Eventually the British reached the summit in heavy fog and thought they surrounded the EOKA fighters and begun shooting and calling airstrikes at each other for over 8 hours. In this battle, the British suffered 127 deaths, 102 injuries and 21 missing. A lot of this came from the confusion EOKA made by withdrawing from their positions in heavy fog with two British units fighting against each other, with EOKA only having to pick off straddlers and did not lose a single man
⚠️ The campaign of the EOKA formally ended on March 31, 1959
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On this day in 1955, Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston was founded
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🔴 Greeks from all over the country are hyped to crowdfund the building of a church near the new immigrant camp in Evros
>https://archive.is/gWSVY
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🔸 Yesterday was announced the initiative of the Presidents of the Local Communities of the municipality of Orestiada, to support the payment of the construction of a church next to camp of Fylakiou, in the field of 6 acres donated by the resident of the village
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>https://archive.is/gWSVY
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🔸 Yesterday was announced the initiative of the Presidents of the Local Communities of the municipality of Orestiada, to support the payment of the construction of a church next to camp of Fylakiou, in the field of 6 acres donated by the resident of the village
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🔴 Turkish Lira falls again after the dismissal of the deputy governor of the central bank by Erdogan less than two weeks after he also fired the head of the Central bank which caused the Turkish Lira to lose almost 15% of its value in a few hours
>https://archive.is/8Wcla
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🔸 According to the report, Murat Cetinkaya, who had previously worked for Turkish banks and stockbrokers, was fired by presidential decree published in the government newspaper at midnight on Tuesday
🔸 The Turkish Lira recorded new losses after the dismissal of the deputy governor of the central bank. According to Reuters, the Turkish currency fell about 0.7% to 8.28 pounds per dollar, recording losses for the fourth consecutive session and closer to the historically low of 8.58
🔸The Lira suffered heavy losses last week as the appointment of Sahab Kavtsioglu, a critic of high interest rates, as head of the central bank sparked fears that it would reverse recent interest rate hikes
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>https://archive.is/8Wcla
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🔸 According to the report, Murat Cetinkaya, who had previously worked for Turkish banks and stockbrokers, was fired by presidential decree published in the government newspaper at midnight on Tuesday
🔸 The Turkish Lira recorded new losses after the dismissal of the deputy governor of the central bank. According to Reuters, the Turkish currency fell about 0.7% to 8.28 pounds per dollar, recording losses for the fourth consecutive session and closer to the historically low of 8.58
🔸The Lira suffered heavy losses last week as the appointment of Sahab Kavtsioglu, a critic of high interest rates, as head of the central bank sparked fears that it would reverse recent interest rate hikes
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🔴 Erdogan considers picking Tansu Ciller, a former Turkish President as his government's next Foreign Minister as she is known for having good relations with the US, although she has a dark past with Greece, being behind the Imia crisis
>https://archive.is/Zfwaz
>https://archive.is/QBu0F
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🔸 Former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller appears as a possible successor to Mevlut Cavusoglu in a possible reshuffle. Although she is not the only one being considere, she is described as a favorite by various journalists, including the authoritative Rahim Turan. He cites Ciller's good relations with Washington, at a time when Erdogan is trying to melt the ice that has been created with newly elected President Joe Biden
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>https://archive.is/Zfwaz
>https://archive.is/QBu0F
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🔸 Former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller appears as a possible successor to Mevlut Cavusoglu in a possible reshuffle. Although she is not the only one being considere, she is described as a favorite by various journalists, including the authoritative Rahim Turan. He cites Ciller's good relations with Washington, at a time when Erdogan is trying to melt the ice that has been created with newly elected President Joe Biden
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🔴 Who is Tansu Ciller and what happened during the Imia crisis? (check previous post for context)
>https://archive.is/QBu0F
🔸 She was the first woman to become Prime Minister of Turkey. Born in Constantinople. She attended American universities and received her PhD from Yale in Economics. She got married and her husband took her last name. Upon her return to Turkey, she seemed to be winning her academic career working as a lecturer until 1990 when she was elected for the first time for the Turkish Parliament
🔸 From 1996 to 1997 she was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Her relationship with Mesut Yilmaz , the other leader of the secular center, was marked by a prolonged political vendetta. They were trying to get voters from the same ideological and political space of the center-right
‼️ She can be linked with the Imia crisis, as on June 8, 1995, the Turkish National Assembly authorized the government of the hardline Ciller to use all means, including the military, against Greece. She ostentatiously ignored the official notes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that warned her about a possible escalation of the crisis
‼️ It was the first time that Turkey directly threatened Greece with war in the event that it exercised its right to extend its territorial waters to 12 miles. Ciller sent a small group of Turkish soldiers, with orders not to open fire first. Nevertheless, she appeared determined to push things to the limit, at a time when the military leadership was hesitant
‼️ As long as the now-famous Turkish operation lasted, the then prime minister had avoided answering President Clinton's constant phone calls . The United States was trying to prevent a war by acting as a mediator. She picked up the phone only when the crisis was over
🚨🇩🇪 Ciller's husband had been repeatedly accused of not only corruption but also having close ties to the parastate and organized crime. Ciller's name was also directly implicated in a drug trafficking case during a trial in Germany. In Frankfurt, a court ruling at the time argued that the Turkish drug mafia had a strong influence in Turkish government circles, which reached as far as then-Foreign Minister Ciller.
🔸 She was accused of widespread corruption during her term as Prime Minister. She was the only one who did not inform her successor about how the secret funds of the state were allocated. He was repeatedly questioned by the Turkish Parliament on these charges, but was eventually acquitted. It should be noted that Mesut Yilmaz has admitted that
‼️ After moving away from politics, she enjoys moments of calm, while visiting Greece every summer. It is not a few times that she is also in Thessaloniki, as it is the city where her parents were born and lived
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🔴 Who is Tansu Ciller and what happened during the Imia crisis? (check previous post for context)
>https://archive.is/QBu0F
🔸 She was the first woman to become Prime Minister of Turkey. Born in Constantinople. She attended American universities and received her PhD from Yale in Economics. She got married and her husband took her last name. Upon her return to Turkey, she seemed to be winning her academic career working as a lecturer until 1990 when she was elected for the first time for the Turkish Parliament
🔸 From 1996 to 1997 she was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Her relationship with Mesut Yilmaz , the other leader of the secular center, was marked by a prolonged political vendetta. They were trying to get voters from the same ideological and political space of the center-right
‼️ She can be linked with the Imia crisis, as on June 8, 1995, the Turkish National Assembly authorized the government of the hardline Ciller to use all means, including the military, against Greece. She ostentatiously ignored the official notes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that warned her about a possible escalation of the crisis
‼️ It was the first time that Turkey directly threatened Greece with war in the event that it exercised its right to extend its territorial waters to 12 miles. Ciller sent a small group of Turkish soldiers, with orders not to open fire first. Nevertheless, she appeared determined to push things to the limit, at a time when the military leadership was hesitant
‼️ As long as the now-famous Turkish operation lasted, the then prime minister had avoided answering President Clinton's constant phone calls . The United States was trying to prevent a war by acting as a mediator. She picked up the phone only when the crisis was over
🚨🇩🇪 Ciller's husband had been repeatedly accused of not only corruption but also having close ties to the parastate and organized crime. Ciller's name was also directly implicated in a drug trafficking case during a trial in Germany. In Frankfurt, a court ruling at the time argued that the Turkish drug mafia had a strong influence in Turkish government circles, which reached as far as then-Foreign Minister Ciller.
🔸 She was accused of widespread corruption during her term as Prime Minister. She was the only one who did not inform her successor about how the secret funds of the state were allocated. He was repeatedly questioned by the Turkish Parliament on these charges, but was eventually acquitted. It should be noted that Mesut Yilmaz has admitted that
‼️ After moving away from politics, she enjoys moments of calm, while visiting Greece every summer. It is not a few times that she is also in Thessaloniki, as it is the city where her parents were born and lived
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🔴 Germany: New asylum housing in Berlin costs taxpayers thousands per square meter – more than most Germans earn in a month
🏢 At the moment, workers in Berlin are constructing some 50 modular accommodation for asylum seekers. So far, the construction project has swallowed up over €1 billion in taxpayer money.
💸 According to Berlin Senate, the cost to produce one square meter of the new migrant accommodations ranges between €1,600 and €2,600 – a cost regarded by Germany’s opposition as highly dubious and vastly inflated for simple prefabricated buildings
🏠 The official name of the housing development is “Modular Accommodation for Refugees”, or MUF for short. A total of 6,000 apartments are slated to be built, which in theory will initially be used to accommodate asylum seekers and immigrants before being later used as social housing
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🔴 Germany: New asylum housing in Berlin costs taxpayers thousands per square meter – more than most Germans earn in a month
🏢 At the moment, workers in Berlin are constructing some 50 modular accommodation for asylum seekers. So far, the construction project has swallowed up over €1 billion in taxpayer money.
💸 According to Berlin Senate, the cost to produce one square meter of the new migrant accommodations ranges between €1,600 and €2,600 – a cost regarded by Germany’s opposition as highly dubious and vastly inflated for simple prefabricated buildings
🏠 The official name of the housing development is “Modular Accommodation for Refugees”, or MUF for short. A total of 6,000 apartments are slated to be built, which in theory will initially be used to accommodate asylum seekers and immigrants before being later used as social housing
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🔴 Greek minister of Asylum and immigration caught telling Ylva Johansson that he only told the Greek public that the new camps would be "closed" to avoid major incidents, they both laughed but the minister gets startled when he realized he was being recorded
>https://archive.is/jmOr6
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🔴 Greek minister of Asylum and immigration caught telling Ylva Johansson that he only told the Greek public that the new camps would be "closed" to avoid major incidents, they both laughed but the minister gets startled when he realized he was being recorded
>https://archive.is/jmOr6
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