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[insan]

So when the Turks came, the braves of EOKA B loaded up their stuff on the cars, removed their road block, and disappeared. One would have thought that they went to the front to fight the Turkish Army. Actually, they went to the Turkish Cypriot village of Ayios Nicolaos, on the borders of the administrative areas of the Limassol and Paphos districts. I don't know what they did there. I have heard various reports, but I can't verify them because I wasn't there. What I did see was several of the roadblock braves carrying spoils from the Turkish Cypriot homes back to my village in a truck. One of them was given a job in the Presidential Palace by Mr Papadopoulos, but that too is another story...

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 9&cat_id=9


Does anyone have any idea about that story?

[Othellos]

So when the Turks came, the braves of EOKA B loaded up their stuff on the cars, removed their road block, and disappeared. One would have thought that they went to the front to fight the Turkish Army. Actually, they went to the Turkish Cypriot village of Ayios Nicolaos, on the borders of the administrative areas of the Limassol and Paphos districts. I don't know what they did there. I have heard various reports, but I can't verify them because I wasn't there. What I did see was several of the roadblock braves carrying spoils from the Turkish Cypriot homes back to my village in a truck. One of them was given a job in the Presidential Palace by Mr Papadopoulos, but that too is another story...

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 9&cat_id=9


Does anyone have any idea about that story?

Just by coincidence I also read this story yesterday from the author's web site:

www.makarios.ws

Most of it is in Greek, but there is also a section with some articles in English:

http://www.makarios.ws/cgibin/hweb?-V=e ... EGORY=0000

To answer Insan's question (if there is a question), I do not know who is the person who was employed in the Pres. Palace by TPap. I have been told that during the coup in 1974, TPap was arrested in Famagusta by the coup people, only to be released by their local commander soon after. Drousiotis has also reported this incident in one of his recent articles.

I know some people from the area where Ayios Nikolaos (interesting name for an almost purely Turkish Cypriot village) is. Next time I see them I will ask if they know more details about what happened there in 1974, even though I have no reason to doubt what Drousiotis writes.

O.

[insan]

Thanks for the infos you've given Othellos. What I'm wondering is for what purpose T-Pap had sent one of the EOKA-B man to presidential palace? What kind of job he was given by T-Pap?

[Piratis]

Because somebody throws some words without giving any facts or evidence about it this doesn't mean it is true. So until some evidence are produced that statement is just another vague statement from a Papadopoulos hater and nothing more than that.

[metecyp]

I know some people from the area where Ayios Nikolaos (interesting name for an almost purely Turkish Cypriot village) is.

Sorry, this is off topic but this is interesting (the fact that a pure TC village has a complete Christian/Greek name). Does anyone know a book/source that talks about the origins of village names in Cyprus?

[insan]

As I stated previously; pre-74 and even still every village in Cyprus(But notably mixed ones and towns) had/have one Turkish and one GC name. I witnessed to this when I visited Mari/Tatlısu. there are two TC kahvehanes(coffe house) there abandoned and not being used by GCs. On top of the entrance door of one of those kahvehanes, there's a zinc sheet that displays the name and the year it was founded. It displays: "Tatlısu Kahvehanesi, Founded in 1951."
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CY/3/Mari.html

More info about Esentepe/ Agios Nicolau can be founded @

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CY/6/A ... olaos.html

[insan]

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CY/5/C ... dhkia.html

This one is very interesting because half of its name is in Turkish(Çiftlik) and the other half(koudhkia) is in Greek. The website doesn't state any other names for this village. Most probably the Turkish name of this village is Çiftlik+the meaning of the Greek word.

[Othellos]

I know some people from the area where Ayios Nikolaos (interesting name for an almost purely Turkish Cypriot village) is.

Sorry, this is off topic but this is interesting (the fact that a pure TC village has a complete Christian/Greek name). Does anyone know a book/source that talks about the origins of village names in Cyprus?

A good source of information (but in Greek) is the "megali Kypriaki engyklopedia" (="great Cypriot encyclopedia") which was published several years back. They have a section on just about anything related to Cyprus and that would be the first place I would look in for more information regarding any village. Unfortunately I do not have it so I cannt tell you more about Ayios Nikolaos which according to the 1960 census was populated almost entirely by TCs (410 out of 418 inhabitants). If there is by any chance a book about the origins of village names, I too would be interested to know about it so I can obtain a copy.

O.