Video RR7429A CYPRUS THE COUP AGAINST MAKARIOS

RR7429A CYPRUS THE COUP AGAINST MAKARIOS


On July 15th 1974, members of the Cypriot National

Guard staged a coup against President Archbishop

Makarios to further their aim of Enosis, union of Cyprus

with Greece. Makarios fled to Britain and his place was

taken by Nicos Sampson, an ex-fighter of the Greek-

Cypriot guerrilla organization EOKA. This report traces

the career of Makarios from the colonial war with Britain

through independence in 1960, the intercommunal

clashes which followed, to the growth of a prosperous

Cyprus enjoying relative stability.







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