EOKA

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EOKA

  1. (now historical) The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston ("National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters"), a paramilitary group fighting for the end of British rule in Cyprus and for union with Greece. [from 20th c.]
    • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 315:
      In the eyes of the British, EOKA was a terrorist organization. To its supporters its members were freedom fighters engaged in a struggle for national liberation.

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