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Cypriot intercommunal violence

The killing of a Turkish Cypriot policeman

Saturday Jan 19, 1957
Cyprus

The killing of a Turkish Cypriot policeman on 19 January, when a power station was bombed, and the injury of three others, provoked three days of intercommunal violence in Nicosia. The two communities targeted each other in reprisals, at least one Greek Cypriot was killed and the army was deployed in the streets.


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