Events that took place in Aphania village on the evening of May 26th, 1956
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Title
Events that took place in Aphania village on the evening of May 26th, 1956
Alternative Title
Events happened in Aphania village yesterday evening
Dün akşam Afanya köyünde vuku bulan hadiseler
Abstract
One Turk, named Ali Mustafa, has been killed with stones. In Nicosia, crowd of people have gathered in the Ataturk square and in front of the leader of “Kıbrıs Türktür Partisi” (Cyprus is Turkish Party) Dr. Fazıl Küçük’s house, and waited for his return from Aphania. According to the official statement, during the events happened in Aphania, a house and a motorcyle have been burned. 8 Greek villager have been injured and 5 of them hospitalized. Curfew has been announced in the village.
Creator
R.H.
Source
Halkın sesi newspaper
Date
1956-05-27
Relation
Item #23: "Aphania clashes, 26 May 1956" (see other items cited there)
Language
Turkish
Type
Newspaper article
Identifier
halkin_sesi_1956_05_27_01
Bibliographic Citation
"Dün akşam Afanya köyünde vuku bulan hadiseler" in Halkın Sesi, May 27, 1956, p.1.
Spatial Coverage
Aphania
Temporal Coverage
26-05-1956
Geolocation
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- Date Added
- March 28, 2011
- Collection
- Newspapers: Halkın Sesi
- Item Type
- Document
- Tags
- Fazıl Küçük, inter-communal violence, Kıbrıs Türktür Partisi, regional violence
- Citation
- R.H., “Events that took place in Aphania village on the evening of May 26th, 1956,” Cyprus Critical History Archive: Reconsidering the culture of violence in Cyprus, 1955-64, accessed June 28, 2022, http://ccha-ahdr.info/items/show/25.
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