Residents of Cyprus woke up to the sound of alarm sirens throughout the island early Wednesday morning to commemorate the anniversary of the Turkish Operation Attila launched on July 20, 1974. The two communities of the divided nation remember this piece of history differently. Sirens were heard in the Republic of Cyprus early on Wednesday […]
He felt the proximity of danger, his sense of a scout said that a war might begin. Alexandros Simeophoridis proceeded from the facts, they were clear and precise, but no one believed him. As head of the Hellenic Central Intelligence Service (KYP) contingent in Kyrenia, Cyprus, he intercepted and decoded Turkish conversations and monitored the […]
The ghosts of 1974 are still among us. What would happen if the views of the “shadow dictator” Dimitrios Ioannidis prevailed, and if on the morning of July 20, 1974, when Turkish troops invaded Cyprus, Athens declared war on Ankara? In fact, it can be said that the meeting room at the Greek Ministry of […]