Statement by the Kibris Türktür Partisi (Cyprus is Turkish Party) on the Aphania clashes

Statement by the Kibris Türktür Partisi (Cyprus is Turkish Party) on the Aphania clashes

Statement by the Kibris Türktür Partisi (Cyprus is Turkish Party): The Aphania Event

Kıbrıs Türktür Partisi Başkanlığından: Afanya Hadisesi

The events that happened in Aphania have been explained: In the Greek coffehouse on the main road, a quarrel began among Greek Cypriots, and Turkish Cypriots heard noise of a gun or a bomb. Then a group of people from the Greek neighbourhood started marching towards the Turkish neighborhood. Greek Cypriots from some other villages, such as Paşa, Timbu, Makrasika also participated in the attack. Turkish Cypriots withdrew to the Turkish village Aya. Greek Cypriots set some empty houses on fire, and burnt out one house completely. Ali Mustafa, son-in-law of the former mukhtar, was killed by the Greek-Cypriot group. But the murder of one Greek Cypriot was not committed by the Turkish Cypriots. Turkish Cypriots kept calm and refrained from fighting with the Greek Cypriots. Dr. Fazıl Küçük did not go to Aphania to provide public order, as Cyprus Radio claimed, but to inform excited Turkish Cypriots in Nicosia about the event, as reported by BBC.

R.H.

Halkın sesi newspaper

1956-05-29

Turkish

Newspaper article

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"Afanya Hadisesi" in Halkın Sesi, May 29, 1956, p.1-2. 

Aphania

1956-05-26