Tag: Cyprus history

Helios Airways crash: 21 years of grief and unanswered questions

Twenty-one years have passed since the Helios Airways crash that claimed 121 lives and became one of the darkest tragedies in Cyprus' modern history. On...

14 August 1974: Second phase Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins

On 14 August 1974, the second phase of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus began, dramatically expanding the territory under Turkish military control and leaving...

Relatives and witnesses recall Isaak and Solomou murders 30 years on

Thirty years after the brutal murders of Tassos Isaak and Solomos Solomou, members of their families and eyewitnesses spoke to CNA about the tragic events...

Turkish sources reveal how the 1974 invasion nearly failed

Fifty-one years after the events of 1974, the invasion of Cyprus has been extensively documented in Greece and Cyprus. However, the internal Turkish perspective...

Remains of missing persons exhumed at bombed Athalassa Hospital

The Athalassa Hospital bombing on 20 July 1974 remains one of the lesser-known tragedies of the Cyprus war, with 33 people killed when Turkish...

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