'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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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

EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston, in English National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters) was a Greek Cypriot military resistance organisation that fought for self-determination and for …