'Alkimos Youth EOKA') was the EOKA youth movement during the struggle for enosis between 1955 and 1959. The youth organisation had a self-governing body that was directly responsible to the …

EOKA, underground nationalist movement of Greek Cypriots dedicated to ending British colonial rule in Cyprus (achieved in 1960) and to achieving the eventual union (Greek enosis) of Cyprus with Greece.

April 1, 2025, marks 70 years since the commencement of the EOKA (National Organization of Cypriot Fighters) struggle against British colonial rule in Cyprus from 1955 to 1959. Its goal was to achieve …

The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA), which translates to "National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters", was a Greek Cypriot nationalist guerilla organization active from 1955 to 1959.

In the 1950s, EOKA organised to mount a military campaign to achieve the unification with Greece and end the status as a British crown colony.

May 19, 2025 · Created and orchestrated by the Greek and Greek Cypriot leadership, the EOKA was not a liberation movement – it was a violent insurgency with the singular goal of transforming Cyprus …

This chapter explains the ways in which Archbishop Makarios III and Colonel George Grivas worked together to create EOKA, the Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation which, beginning in April 1955, …

70 years after the start of the EOKA campaign to unite Cyprus to Greece (enosis), this essay revisits the nature and activities of EOKA, and its legacy.

EOKA [Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston - National Organization of Cypriot Fighters] started a guerrilla campaign against British colonial rule aimed at self-determination and union with Greece...

Mar 29, 2025 · The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA) Greek: Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit. National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters was a Greek Cypriot nationalist guerrilla …