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Outbreak of Trouble

The Cyprus Emergency resulted from the Greek Cypriot attempt to secure Enosis by force of arms, after they recognized the difficulty of getting the British to concede such an important base. The leader of the Greek Cypriot community, Arch-bishop Makarios III, had been the driving force behind the Enosis movement and had set about creating mass support organisations needed to sustain the campaign. In 1951 he contacted a known right-wing extremist, George Grivas, a Cypriot-born colonel in the Greek Army (and a former leader of a successful but banned resistance group during WWII), to organise the military wing of the movement. This became known as EOKA, or National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters. The new organisation was supplied with light weapons and explosives smuggled by sea from Greece.

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