EOKA Members List : I

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IACOUVIDES, Georgio (There is a memorial to him at Kykko Metoch. From Athinou in 1930, he practised journalism and had a dual role in Eoka - intelligence gatherer and hit-and-run gang member.)

IACOVIDES, Xanthos (One of the original five gang members in Larnaca, he was caught on 02.04.55, the second day of the conflict.)

IAKOVIDES, Yiakis. Code-name: Polonios. (He attempted to kill Royal Navy personnel on a visit to Larnaca with British-made hand grenades in May 1956. His comrade in crime was Petrakis KYRIANOU. Their mission failed.)

IERIDES, Andreas (He was born in 1935 in Flasou. After quitting his job as a Land Registry Clerk, he joined a hit-and-run group in Nicosia and later a mountain gang that operated in the Kykko area. He was captured and interned.)

IERIDES, Andreas (The second Eoka member with the same name, he was captured 19.04.57 and interned. He was a former policeman who operated in the Lania Zoopigi area. He gave his birth date as 1930.)

IGOUMENIDES, Michaelis (Little is known about his background, except that he had been a schoolteacher in Peyia until 1950. The probability is that he was a Greek citizen, not a Cypriot.)

INDIANOS, Antonis Constantinou Indianos. (Lawyer, poet, critic, translator, prose writer and archaeologist, he had expert knowledge of the Byzantine Empire, the Middle-Ages and the recent period of Cyprus History. Born in 1899, he came from a prominent Cypriot family in the Famagusta district. Extremely well-educated, he attended the American Academy and went on to study law at London's Middle Temple and became a barrister, returning to Cyprus to practise.

In 1929 he became the Colonial administration's official translator as well as a member of the Parliamentary Council (1930-1931). In 1937 he awarded a scholarship to Oxford University to study for Classic Archaeology. During World War II he returned to the Island and became an expert in Criminal law. By now he was also a prominent in the world of literature, publishing and editing highly respected magazines. Both Rauf Denktash, long time leader of the Turkish Cypriots, and Tassos PAPADOPOULOS worked as lawyers from the A C Indianos offices.

During the 1955-1959 period, Indianos defended Eoka fighters in court, acting on their behalf pro bono (IN ITALICS). Amongst those he defended was Michalakis KARAOLIS. But, according to Greek sources, he was also passing secret information, obtained from the British, to Eoka via a priest of the Archdiocese of Cyprus.

Indianos searched by the security services before entering the Nicosia court in which he was defending Michalakis KARAOLIS in August 1955.

In 2002, he was presented a 'Timis Eneken', the Medal of Freedom of the Republic of Cyprus from the then President, Glavkos CLERIDES.

IOANIDES, George (An Eoka area commander, he survived the conflict and continued to practise Law in Paphos. For a short time, he was appointed Minister of the Interior.)

IOANNIDES, Costas (A Greek Cypriot police inspector, he was found with an EOKA arms cache at his Nicosia suburb home. Suspected of supplying the terrorists with information about security operations, the inspector's house was kept under surveillance by Sgt JACK TAYLOR of the UK Police Unit and his Turkish Cypriot interpreter KEMAL waiting for the right moment to pounce. When the house was raided, Ioannides was arrested with several other active members of EOKA. During the subsequent search of the property, Taylor found a secret basement, which was filled with stolen British Army weapons, and mines 'weeping gelignite'. They were too dangerous to move and an explosives expert, MAJOR 'BOMBER' HARRIS blew them up in situ. In the controlled explosion 'the bungalow disappeared into a pile of rubble'. 'Any police office who was betraying us deserved all he got,' Taylor said. 'I was sure he'd get no sympathy when he appeared at the Special Court.'

IOANNIDES, Costakis Polycarpos. (The son of Polycarpos IOANNIDES, he went to Athens under cover of being a student, but the organization did not want him back in Cyprus, why is not known.)

IOANNIDES, Demetris Code name Akis. (He operated in Nicosia as a student activist. Security Forces captured him on 21.03.57 and he was interned, aged 17, for the duration of the conflict.)

IOANNIDES, Ioannis, Dr. (Ioannides was exiled to Greece after the 1931 riots. In Athens, he plotted the overthrow of the colonial administration. His armed struggle was to take the form of KARI - Cypriot Fighters, Daring Leaders. When he heard about EOKA in 1953, he merged his group with Grivas's fighters.)

IOANNIDES, Louis. (Born 1938 in Ayia Phyla, he coupled his student activities in Limassol with being a hit-and-run gang member in the same district.)

IOANNIDES, Odysseus. (Born 1927, he was a surgeon from Athens who treated the injuries of Eoka members based in the Nicosia area. After independence he became a mayor of Nicosia and formed a political party with Nicos SAMPSON.)

IOANNIDES, Polycarpos. (The Secretary to the Bishop of Kyrenia, he was born 1910 in Pyrgos. He was exiled with the Bishop and Makarios to the Seychelles on 09.03.56. Apart from his duties at the bishopric, he was a journalist who promoted enosis.)

IOANNOU, Andreas. (He was arrested by the British authorities on 18.11.56, with Andreas MODITIS, after their unsuccessful attack on an army convoy travelling the Larnaca-Dhekelia road, near the Terra-Ombra factory. They were sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.)

IOANNOU, Evangels (He bombed the power supply to RAF Nicosia on 17.10.57)

IOANNOU, Ioannis. (Born 1921, he came from Larnaca, but operated in Akhyritou.)

IOANNOU, Kyriacos (Born 1929 in Polystipos, Troodos. Little is known about his life and terrorist activities.)

IOANNOU, Kokos. (One of EOKA's Dhekelia gang, he was contracted by the British for building several Barrack Blocks. On 6.11.56, with Lucas STYLIANOU, he planted time bombs in BI, Block 4. They caused extensive damage.

One of the buildings damaged by Ioannou and STLIANOU at Dhekelia

Three days later, with Andreas KEKKOS, BII, Block 4 was blown up. On 13.11.56, he placed incendiary devices and two bombs in BI's Guard Room. The whole building was destroyed by fire. All the bombs were smuggled into the base by Phaedonos, the group leader.)

IOANNOU, Nicolas. (He was killed 17.07.58, when his motor-cycle collided with a truck near Banbury, Oxfordshire. He had been a student at the London Polytechnic, where he was an activist for the EOKA cause. His brother, Giorgos IOANNOU, had been found guilty in Cyprus of terrorist activity and was sent to the UK to serve his sentence first at Wormwood Scrubs and then Wakefield Prison. Nicolas was born in Jordan in 1936. According to Vias LIVADAS, Eoka terrorist turned author, Nicolas was murdered by the Special Branch for working with the IRA. LIVADAS says he had recently visited Dublin to establish close links between the two terrorist organizations. Today EOKA claims Nicolas was the mastermind of a plan to release the EOKA and IRA prisoners, including his brother, held in Wakefield. The escape plans went ahead in spite of his death, but were called off when the Cyprus settlement was reached in February 1959. On 8 May 1960, his remains were brought to Cyprus for reburial at Kaimakli, a Nicosia suburb. Several thousand Cypriots attended the funeral, at which Archbishop Makarios officiated. In December 1984, the Greek Cypriot government honored him by calling a National Guard facility the 'Nicolas Ioannou Camp'. The National Guard declared: ' He is not dead to the Greek nation. He was - and still is - a champion in the fight we are still fighting. We give one promise: we promise his everlasting dream will come true - CYPRUS WILL BECOME FREE!'

IOANNOU, Nicos (He operated in the Mavrovouni area and was captured during Operation Black Mak on 14.01.57, but escaped on 03.09.58 from Nicosia General Hospital where he had been taken under guard for medical treatment. Recaptured later, he was due to be executed until Governor FOOT commuted the death sentence on 31.12. 58 to one of life imprisonment.)

IOANNOU, Papamicheal (No details available at present).

IOANNOU, Spyros. (He joined Eoka in 1954 before the conflict began. GRIVAS assigned him the task to organize gangs and ready them for action in rural areas. He achieved success primarily in Kokkinokhoria and later in Famagusta/Gazimagosa town. He was also director of PEK's purchasing department. PEK was a political wing of Eoka.)

IOANNIDES, Costas (A Police Inspector found with an Eoka arms cache in his house in a Nicosia suburb.)

IONNIDES, Andreas A well-known Limassol bookseller, he was arrested on 05.12.55, trying to smuggle sub-machine guns in crates from aboard MV Aeolia. In February 1956, the authorities granted him permission to marry Zoulla IOANNIDOU in the Holy Virgin Church in the village adjoining the detention camp where no one knew Ionnides. Zoulla was also highly regarded by Eoka. As the bridegroom was driven to his wedding - in handcuffs - British paratroops armed with Sten guns cordoned the church.

Armed British soldiers on guard to stop any escape attempts.

But when the wedding party arrived, the villagers, carrying candles, were packed inside. The Royal Inniskillings' major in charge of the escort muttered: 'Good heavens, the whole village is here.' At the entrance of the church, Ionnides jumped down from the Black Maria. Two black-robed priests watched as he was released from his handcuffs.

When the 20-year-old bride, arrived, she said their party had been delayed, as many of them had been searched at a nearby roadblock. Four police officers in civilian clothes took up positions near Ionnides at the altar.

After the religious ceremony, Ionnides embraced the bride before being put in a police van and returned to prison. Pathe newsreel cameras covered the event.

After the religious ceremony, Ionnides embraced the bride before being put in a police van and returned to prison. Pathé news cameras covered the event.

Then the white-gowned bride stood alone on the church steps and waved good-bye to her new husband. Ionnides climbed into the Black Maria for his ride back to the barbed wire-enclosed camp.

Ionnides boasted he was an Eoka founder member in Limassol and launched the local campaign on 01.04.55, which most observers consider was a disaster, as much as his attempts to illegally import weapons from Greece. Soon after independence, he was selling the first books in English about the conflict for £1 and 5 shillings a copy!

IONNIDES, Euripides (Born 1910 in Kato Pyrgos, he was the grocer bother of Polycarpos IOANNIDES, the Secretary to the Bishop of Kyrenia. Euripides was a hit-and-run group member in the Tylerias area.)

IONNIDES, Lazarou. (Suspected as the main courier between Charteris and Nicos SAMPSON, leader of the Nicosia killer-unit, he was arrested by members of the UK Police Unit, who especially disliked him for being partly responsible for the murder of at least two of their fellow officers. Another officer recalls: 'For his initial questioning, we handed him to two Turkish Cypriot officers at Nicosia's Central Police Station. They had never heard of such things as "Judges' Rules" and, by the time Ionnides was handed back to us, they had made him wish he had never heard of EOKA.' A Greek Cypriot informer - 'Rovertos' - led to Ionnides' capture.)

IORDANOU, Marios. (He was among juveniles detained during the Governor's pleasure, who pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm at a warrant officer in Limassol on 28 November 1956. He was only 15 years old at the time. He was brought before the courts and tried according to the normal processes of justice. In early 1957, there were 311 youths of the secondary school age group who were detained in specially constructed camps. All the young prisoners obstinately resisted all efforts to continue their education while in detention.)

IORDANOU, Panayiotis. (Known only as a member of a youth Eoka hit-and-run group).

IOSEPHIDES, Andreas (An Eoka area commander who survived the conflict. Born 1938, he quit army officer-training college in Greece to return to Cyprus on a forged passport supplied by Andreas AZINAS in Athens. He became a group leader in Polis.)

IRENEOS, Abbot (He was responsible for Machaeras Monastery, where Eoka personnel hid and stored their weapons. He became an Abbot at the age of 24, after studying theology. Previously he had served in the RAF Regiment as a clerk. In his role of Abbot, he belonged to the exclusive order of the 'Brotherhood of Machaeras'. At the height of the Eoka struggle, by his own admission, he gave up his bed to Gregoris AFXENTIOU, the organization's second-in-command who was killed on 04.03.57. Later, he claimed, British troops had subjected him to brutal interrogation between 28.02.57 until the operation against AFXENTIOU was completed.)

ISAIAS, Diomedes. Dr (A prosecution witness in the Court Martials of Captains LINZEE and O'DRISCOLL. What he did afterwards remains a mystery.)

ISIDOROU, Andreas aka Yianakis (Born 1940 in Famagusta/Gazimagosa, he became a deputy leader of a hit-and-run group in Pelekhori.

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