Aphania clashes, 26 May 1956
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Title
Aphania clashes, 26 May 1956
Abstract
Short summary of the events based on the sources that we have collected.
Creator
A.H.
Date
1956-05-26
Relation
Documents:
Item #24: "Description of Afania clashes (1956) by Yiannis Nikas"
Item #25: "Events that took place in Aphania village on the evening of May 26th, 1956"
Item #26: "Statement by the “Kibris Türktür Partisi” (Cyprus is Turkish Party) on the Aphania clashes"
Item #27: "Description of events in Assia (26-29 May 1956) by Yiannis Nikas"
Item #28: "Critique by Yavuz on the attitude of Greek-Cypriot Press and the leadership about the events in Vasilia, Larnaca and Aphania"
Item #29: "Court testimony of Ioannis Christophi of Afania on trial of Antonis Nikolaou Faruk, accused of shooting his co-villager Raif Mehmet on May 26, 1956"
Identifier
Item_23_Aphania_1956
Spatial Coverage
Aphania
Marathovounos area
Mesaoria region
Famagusta district
Temporal Coverage
1956-05-26
Event Item Type Metadata
Event Type
Inter-communal violence
Deaths involved
Regional Violence
Participants
Antonis Nikolaou Faruk, accused of shooting Raif Mehmet.
Raif Mehmet, shot by Greek Cypriots..
Ioannis Christophi, trial witness.
Fazil Küçük.
Yiannis Nikas.
Gavriel Ioannou, injured by Turkish Cypriots.
Raif Mehmet, shot by Greek Cypriots..
Ioannis Christophi, trial witness.
Fazil Küçük.
Yiannis Nikas.
Gavriel Ioannou, injured by Turkish Cypriots.
Duration
1956-05-26
Geolocation
- Date Added
- February 22, 2011
- Collection
- Events
- Item Type
- Event
- Tags
- inter-communal violence, Mixed village, regional violence
- Citation
- A.H., “Aphania clashes, 26 May 1956,” Cyprus Critical History Archive: Reconsidering the culture of violence in Cyprus, 1955-64, accessed May 21, 2025, https://ccha-ahdr.info/items/show/23.
- Files
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