The Battle of Omorphita was an armed engagement between Greek Cypriot and Turkish–Turkish Cypriot militias and Turkish military forces in December 1963...
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Bloody Christmas (1963) (category Persecution of Turkish Cypriots)
came to assist in the battle of Omorphita, they attacked the suburb and eventually took it over with the Turkish Cypriot residents of the quarter later being...
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Nikos Sampson (category People convicted of illegal possession of weapons)
irregulars. Following the battle in Omorphita, Nikos Sampson was nicknamed by the Turkish Cypriots as the "Butcher of Omorphita". In 1969 Sampson founded...
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Cypriot intercommunal violence (redirect from Cyprus crisis of 1963–64)
in Nicosia and Larnaca. A force of Greek Cypriot irregulars led by Nikos Sampson entered the Nicosia suburb of Omorphita and engaged in heavy firing on...
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Northern Cyprus (redirect from History of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)
suburbs of Nicosia. Nikos Sampson, a nationalist and future coup leader, led a group of Greek Cypriot irregulars into the mixed suburb of Omorphita/Küçük...
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