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

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

A Greek inhabitant of Afania [Gaziköy] is accused of shooting

Έλλην κάτοικος εξ Αφανείας κατηγορείται ότι επυροβόλησε

Ioannis Christophi of Afania, a teacher at the Urban School of Ayios Dometios testified to the court that: on May 26, 1956 he went to his village. He was asleep and awaken by shouts and saw his uncle Gavriel Ioannou who was injured by the Turks. He then drove his uncle and seven other injured to the Lysi/Akdoğan hospital, and from there to the private practise of Dr Charalambos Demetriou Kouta in Kontea/Türkmenköy. There, he saw the accused (Christophi) and two other co-villagers of theirs. At 10:30pm he and accused drove a heavily injured person to the Varosha hospital, and then returned to Afania.

A.H.

Ελευθερία/Eleftheria newspaper

30-08-1956

Item #23: "Aphania clashes, 26 May 1956" (see other items cited there)

Greek

Newspaper article

eleftheria_1956_08_30_01

"Έλλην κάτοικος εξ Αφανείας κατηγορείται ÏŒτι επυροβÏŒλησε," Ελευθερία, 30 August 1956, p. 1

Aphania

Lysi

Kondea

Famagusta town

Ayios Dhometios

26-06-1956