Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the main street of the tiny Cypriot village of Vassa one night last week strode 15 masked men in strict military order. A year ago, the sight of such gunmen meant that some one had been singled out for death as a collaborator with the British. But this time the EOKA men proved to be bound on a singularly innocent errand. Invading the village coffee shop, they ordered its customers to face the wall, then searched their pockets for British cigarettes...
...George Grivas. who heads EOKA, issued a leaflet announcing that he was "raising the banner of passive resistance," peremptorily ordered a boycott of British football pools and such imported British goods as cigarettes, shoes, whisky, soft drinks and sweets. Proclaimed Grivas: "Britain is sucking away the sweat of the Cypriot people. She digs her hands into their pockets and takes their money in the form of import duties, taxes, and fines...
...week's end Cyprus' stores were running low on locally produced cigarettes; Cypriot cobblers happily reported soaring demand for their ill-made shoes; and thousands of tickets for a government lottery on behalf of Cyprus' hospitals were going unsold. Some 1,300 headmen and elders of Greek Cypriot villages resigned office in open refusal to cooperate with the British authorities in any way. Said one weary British businessman: "I thought passive resistance meant everyone was going to lie down on railroad tracks the way they did in India in Gandhi's day. This looks worse...
...cheering throng of Turkish Cypriots streamed through Nicosia's ancient walled Turkish quarter one morning last week. They were celebrating a report from Ankara, where Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was conferring with Turkey's Premier Menderes and Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, that Britain had accepted partition of Cyprus (between Greeks and Turks) as a solution for the island's troubles. Minutes later, the rumor was proved false. The peaceful procession was abruptly transformed into an angry, howling mob. The "Black Turks" -Cyprus' special police trained to brutal efficiency in breaking up riots...
...When challenged by reporters, Dr. Kuchuk changed "exterminated" to "dispersed." Turkey's newspapers backed him up with flaming headlines, e.g., ISLAND OF CYPRUS IS LIKE SMALL BUDAPEST, and in the Turkish Assembly both government and opposition Deputies stood for three minutes' silence in honor of the Turkish Cypriot dead...