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EOKA Intelligence and Counterintelligence
International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2019Starting an insurgency is extremely risky because, in the process of “rising up,” the status quo is contested and the state’s legitimacy to wield power is directly challenged,1 often violently, the...
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Friend or foe? The Cyprus Police Force and the EOKA insurgency
Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2012This article examines the ambiguous role played by the Cyprus Police Force during the Greek Cypriot insurgency against Britain between 1955 and 1959. A multiethnic force policing a multiethnic society, the CPF struggled to fulfill its duties. Greek Cypriot officers became ineffective as sympathy for, or fear of insurgents undermined their ability to ...
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In 1955, the Greek Cypriot organisation EOKA started an anti-colonial struggle against the British aiming at the unification of the island with Greece. This book sheds new light on the historical period of the struggle through the examination of various external and internal aspects of the conflict. It explores the role of international actors like the
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Ozvěny EOKA: Literární průzkum Kypru v dílech Simona Mawera a Soully Christodoulou [PDF]
, 2023 The aim of this thesis is to examine the accuracy and the manner of depiction of the period of the EOKA struggle in Cyprus in Simon Mawer's Swimming to Ithaca (2006) and Soulla Christodoulou's The Summer Will Come (2018). The theoretical part of the thesis examines the events between 1878 and 1959, a critical period in Cypriot history marked by British
Orphanides, Tomáš
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Brothers in arms? How the IRA and EOKA insurgencies transcended the local and became transnational
Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2021Throughout the 1950s Britain faced unprecedented challenges to its imperial rule. Civil disobedience, insurgency and terrorism gripped its colonies as the flames of nationalism and anti-colonialism...
Aaron Edwards, Maria Hadjiathanasiou
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