EOKA Members List : K

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KAFKALIDES, Lambros (Born 1925 in Agros, he operated in Agros and Nicosia. In December 1955, as GRIVAS's bodyguard, he helped 'The Leader' to escape his Spilia hideout as Security Forces approached. Earlier, in September, Kafkalides was one of the terrorists in the mass escape from Kyrenia/Girne Castle. Following the death of AFXENTIOU in March 1957, GRIVAS appointed him Eoka chief in Pitsillia.)

KAILI, Michael (He was killed 23.08.58. in the garden of a Lyssi house after hurling grenades at approaching soldiers. A firefight ensued between the soldiers and Kaili's comrades - Demetrakis ANASTASI, Panayis LARKOU and Kallis SAKKAS. In the encounter, Larkou was the only EOKA survivor. GRIVAS claimed there were five fatalities among the British patrol. The author has not found a single military death recorded on that date. Born 1933 in Lyssi, he was known as Shialos.)

KAILLIS, Christos. (Born 1934 in Kissonerga, he was killed 07.03.57 between Tala and his birthplace. Today the main street of Kissonerga is named after him. There is also a monument to his memory.)

KAISERLIDES, Jacovos (He was a member of the Larnaca gang that launched bomb attacks in the town on 1 April 1955, the first day of the EOKA conflict. He was caught and received a three-year prison sentence for his offenses.)

KAIZER, Takis (He was born 1927 in Lapithos/Lapta and became a member of an Eoka hit-and-run group in Kyrenia/Girne. Later he placed bombs at the US Library in Athens and a Greek USAF base in protest against America's 'silence' over the 1958 Turkish riots in Nicosia.

KAKKOULIS, Kyriakos. (He was a 'fighter' from Yezi village. Born in 1934, he survived the EOKA conflict, but died in 1964 during the communal fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. )

KAKKINOU, Loulla (Nicosia-born, she was 18 years-old when she was arrested in March 1956, the first female to be charged with terrorist offenses. She was released from prison on 13.08.57. She often visited GRIVAS at his mountain hideout. EOKA claimed she was housewife.)

KALAITZIS, Charalambos. (He was killed 14.09.58. Born 1918 in Kathikas, he was a skilled tinsmith, who became an Eoka courier.)

KALIYOROU, Georghios. (Five pistol shots rang out outside the Hereon movie theatre in Famagusta/Gazimagosa. Special Branch interrogator William DEAR, 61, fell dead on the sidewalk. Before security forces could cordon the area, the cinema's projectionist, Kaliyorou, 20, chose to run. His quarters in the theatre were searched immediately. The police found 10 bombs, 12 detonators and nine bullets under his bed. The bombs were oozing Nitro-glycerine and were too dangerous to move. On 16.04.58, Governor FOOT gave explosives experts permission to blow up the three-storey building in the middle of the town. Polycarpos POLYCARPOU, another cinema employee, was considered the most likely suspect for DEAR's murder.)

KALLINICOS, Archmandrite. (The Controller of the Archiepicopla See, he would have overseen Eoka's funding and other policy matters that affected the Church. He organized ANE in Nicosia.)

KALLINIKOU, Andreas (While working as a clerk at the Amiandos mine, he joined a hit-and-run squad in the area. He was caught and interned, but survived the conflict and died 26.05.85, aged 85, in Ayia Theodorou Agros/Caylrova.)

KALLINIKOU, Rita. (She was Andreas CHARTAS's chief courier in Nicosia. She was arrested with him at her home on 01.02.57 as she was typing an order from Grivas, warning families of informers that they, too, might be punished if they continued to support and assist the 'traitors'. While the police were breaking down the door, the pair swept up loose Eoka correspondence, rushed to the bathroom and locked themselves in, but to no avail.)

KALLIS, Michael (He was one of three Eoka terrorists shot dead in a gunfight in Lysi with members of 1 Royal Ulster Rifles on 23.08.58. GRIVAS claimed Kallis, 24, killed five soldiers with a hand grenade while mortally wounded. 1 RHG Ferret Scout cars secured the perimeter of the battle area, inside of which large quantities of arms and weapons were found.

KALOGIROU, Photios, priest. (Born 1918 in Pachna, he was a member of the clergy of the Phaneromeni church in Nicosia. One of his roles was to pass on GRIVAS's orders to his youth messengers so that the Eoka gangs were kept in regular contact with his leader.)

KALOGYROS, Efthymios Papadopoulos. (On 09.08.56, this Dhekelia base employee successfully placed and detonated a series of small bombs in two RASC storerooms at Camp 625. The bombs had been smuggled, one at a time, into the British base in a Thermos flask belonging to an attractive blue-eyed female, 20-year-old Maroulla KYRIAKOU, another popular employee.

KALOYIROU, Costas. (An American citizen of Greek Cypriot origin, the Security Forces were reluctant to search his premises. For this reason, he was willing for Eoka members to use his house in Larnaca as a hiding place. He was a bus driver, whose route took him Syngrasi, Spatharika and Troulli, where he was a hit-and-run EOKA agent.)

KANNAOUROS, Christodoulos (Born 1908 in Kyperounda and died 18.11.58 in custody. He kept Eoka gangs in the Lefkoniko/Gecitkale area supplied with food.)

KANTHOS, Telemachos. (A committee member of the Farmers' Union, he was an effective orator for enosis - union with Greece.

KAPITANIS, Yiannakis (He supplied arms and ammunition, which he transported to Eoka gangs in the Larnaca area. His biographical details are not known.)

KAPONAS, Yangos. Code-name: Pericles. (An electrician at RAF Akrotiri, he helped Andreas VASSILIOU, 17, to blow up a hanger with four Canberras by smuggling two bombs into the base. The explosive devices, each no bigger than an orange, were hidden in a bag of grapes and a pot of pork jelly, a Cypriot delicacy. The bombs were set off on 25.11.57.)

KARACOSTAS, Andreas (A Nicosia court on 08.05.57 passed a 'not guilty' verdict after the judge ruled the 18 year-old's confession to murdering a British officer the previous November was gathered by the police using inappropriate means. He was interned until the end of the conflict.)

KARADYMAS, Argyrios (The authorities placed a reward of £5,000 on his head. A Greek national, he had been caught on board the St George, smuggling caique. By accident, he had been rescued from his guards at Nicosia General Hospital by a gang led by Nicos SAMPSON. On 18.01.57, Karadymas was found with five other terrorists, including Polycarpos GEORGHADJIS, hiding behind a farm fireplace in Omodhos by Pte John DAVIS of 1 Duke of Wellington's Regiment. The terrorists gave up due to lack of oxygen. The troops also found 2,000 rounds of ammunition, six Thompson submachine guns, dozens of revolvers - and a 3.5 bazooka. The house belonged to a senior Greek Cypriot police officer. Karadymas and the others received sentences of life imprisonment. Their capture was one of the successes of Operation Blak Mak, which began at the start of the New Year. Wax-moustached Brigadier J A HOPWOOD said: 'It was a jolly big shoot and my men acted as beaters.')

KARAISKO, Costas (He was arrested 2.4.1956 in connection with a bomb-throwing incident. Twelve days later Athens newspaper Kathimerini accused the authorities of subjecting him to brutal treatment. The Cyprus Government later published a White Paper, countering the accusations under the title of Allegations of Brutality in Cyprus, 1957. Karaisko, it said, on the 8 April, whilst still in custody, had complained of feeling unwell and was examined by a Greek Cypriot doctor. At that time, he made no complaint of any ill treatment - even when questioned as to the origin of a bruise which came to notice during the doctor's examination and which he said he could not account for. He made no complaint to the Police or to anyone else at that time and the following day, the 9th, he was released and sent home by taxi.)

KARAKOULAS, Demetris. (He worked as a government clerk. From this position, he supplied Eoka with ordinance maps and seals for forging documents.)

KARANTONIS, Nicos. (Born 1930 in Trikomo/Iskele, he was killed 24.10.58. His worked as a house painter.)

KARAOLIS, Kyriacos (Killed 12.11.58)

*** KARAOLIS, Michael A young government civil servant, he worked in an income tax office in the capital and was a member of APOEL - the soccer club for Greeks in Nicosia. He was found guilty of shooting dead PC Herodotus POULLIS, a Greek Cypriot Special Branch officer, on 29.08.55 in Ledra Street. With him were Andreas PANAYIOTOU and Yiannis IOANNOU.
His execution took place in the early hours of 10 May 1956 alongside that of Andreas DEMITRIOU. The two young men were the first EOKA terrorists to be hanged. They have since achieved martyr status in Greek Cyprus.
At school, Karaolis had been a model student and played excellent cricket, but he resented Britain's rule of Cyprus. His first act after joining EOKA was to blow up his tax office. To prevent civilian casualties, he claimed, the bomb was timed to explode on a Sunday.
After killing the policeman, Karaolis was due to join AFXENTIOU's Troodos gang and carried a letter of recommendation signed by Yiannakis DROUSIOTIS, who was a money donor to the cause. A few days later, Karaolis, with this letter in his pocket, was stopped and arrested by Turkish Cypriot policemen who handed him to the British.
Karaolis' last words were allegedly: 'You should not feel sorrow for me... since I myself see no reason to feel sorrow for myself. I don't want my family to shed tears for me either.'
EOKA made great play with these words, As most could barely string three or more into a coherent sentence and their last were uttered to the prison's resident priest, their dramatic statements should be considered with caution and regarded as part of the EOKA legend.
Karaolis was born in Palachori on 13 February 1933. He was educated in the British school system of Cyprus and was described as a fine cricket player and an excellent student.
A two-page letter written by French author and philosopher Albert Camus asking for clemency for Karaolis was auctioned in Athens on 7 June 2006 by Greek private collector NIKOS SPANOS.
Cypriot ambassador to Greece GEORGE GEORGIS said: 'The letter was written in 1956, two days before Karaolis' execution. He related Cyprus' struggle for independence with that of Algeria's.'

KARAYIORGIS, Christakis. (Originally from Vavla, he was a member of a Larnaca gang and survived the conflict.)

KARIOLEMOS, Phildeas Code name: Asmodais. (A young theologian, he was the head of the GRIVAS courier network. He was arrested in February 1957, but was released in time to attend the farewell party for GRIVAS in March 1959.)

KARIOS, Andreas (He was born in Avgorou, Ammochostos district, on 16 July 1926, one of eight children of Panagiotis and Androula Karios. He joined EOKA before the conflict began, actively recruiting members in his home village. On the first day of the conflict - 1 April 1955 - he tried to blow up a power station near Famagusta. While he survived, his partner in sabotage, Modestos PANTELI, electrocuted himself. In November of 1957 Karios was arrested in Ormidia and held in Pyla detention camp, from he escaped with Fotis PITTAS on 12 March 1958. After his escape, he became deputy area head of the EOKA gang in the Kokkinochoria area. He and three companions - Fotis Pittas, Christos Samaras and Elias Papakyriakou - were killed in the Liopetri battle on 2 September 1958. They had been hiding on the farm owned by Panagiotis KALLIS. Karios left behind a wife and two children.

The Greek Cypriots have reconstructed the farmhouse and barn at Liopetri, which today is a hallowed monument to the Eoka terrorists who died there. Note that the Greek mainland flag flies above the monument, not the flag of the Republic of Cyprus.

KARMBIS, Petros. (He was one of two high school students - Georghios ELLINAS was the other - who dug a long trench from the communal water fountain in the heart of Lefkoniko/Gecitkale village to an olive grove. They then laid a wire from a hidden bomb at the drinking fountain to a battery-powered switch 400 yards away.

The next day, 23.10.56, soldiers of 1 Highland Light Infantry played a friendly game on the village's football pitch, watched by the schoolchildren and their teachers. The game over, the thirsty players went to drink at the fountain. The teachers moved the children quickly out of the way, as Karmbis and ELLINAS detonated the bomb on a signal of waved white handkerchief from two watching female pupils.

Pte M NEELY of 1 HLI, aged 19, was disembowelled in the explosion. Five other soldiers were wounded, one of whom, Pte J BEATTIE, died the next day in hospital. Neely's family was forced to raise £119 to bring his body back for burial in Glasgow, his hometown. He had been due to complete his National Service in a few weeks.

Soon after the bomb blast, several members of the Scottish regiment stormed Lefkonico and vented their feelings on the Greek Cypriot population, causing property damage. The villagers later demanded financial compensation, Colonel F NOBLE, 1 HLI's CO replied: 'The murders of Privates Neely and Beattie are probably one of the most dastardly Eoka has committed. It was premeditated and aimed to catch soldiers when they were at play. If £3,000 are being claimed for alleged damage caused by troops, the amount is infinitesimal when compared with damage caused by Eoka to my soldiers.' Governor HARDING underlined the point: 'The people of Lefkoniko have reason to be thankful that it was British troops with whom they had to deal on that day.')

KARMIOU, Rea. (Born 1939, she was a tall brunette in the final year of her studies at Larnaca Lyceum. With her friend, Phaedra ECONOMOU, a blonde of medium height, she volunteered to plant bombs at the Grand Hotel, attaching them to chairs in the dining room. The bombs were timed to explode at 20.00 when several British officers would be having dinner. The girls' mission in early August 1956 failed after the bombs were spotted and reported to the police by the hotel manager.)

KARYOLAIMOS, Phideas. Code-name: Asmodaios. (He was the head of 'Eoka liaison' and was arrested on 13.02.57.)

KARYOS, Georgios. (He died in Nicosia General Hospital on 28.10.58 from wounds incurred in a gun battle at Astromeritis nine days earlier. Eoka claimed an informer had revealed his hiding place. He was the brother of Andreas KARYOS, killed in the Liopetri Barn battle with 1 RUR. The British had arrested Georgios several times. In April 1957 he was confined to Kokkinotrimithia Detention Camp from which he escaped soon after his brother's death.)

KASPIS, Panayiotis. (He was killed 13.10.58)

KASSINIS, Ioanis (From Kato Zhodia, Lefka/Lefke, born 1934.)

KATELARIS, Pantelis( No details available at present).

KATELARIS, Theodoulou. (One of EOKA's key explosives experts, he constructed the bomb placed in Governor Sir John Harding's bed in March 1956. That failed to explode. However, Katelaris was killed later by one of his own. A former Public Works Department carpenter, he had just finished a bomb that would have suited the Governor admirably. Katelaris timed it, but it went off far too early, as the one put in Sir John's bed had gone off too late. The bomb that blew up had been planned for use against Sir HUGH FOOT, the new Governor. Katelaris was buried at dawn in a field near the village of Ayios Ioannis, not far from his bomb-maker's cave.

KATSELLIS/CATSELLIS, Rina Charalambidou (Born Kyrenia/Girne 1938. She helped keep Eoka supplied on the north coast. During the conflict she received explosives training in Athens. She married into the Catsellis family of Dome Hotel fame. In 1979 she wrote a book entitled - Refugee in my Homeland.)

KATSOULLIS, Ioannis/John. (GRIVAS moved to the Troodos Mountains in July 1955, where he lived in Katsoullis's house. A reservist in the Greek Army, he worked as a schoolmaster in Evrykhou, but volunteered to train the Eoka recruits in the use of weapons and explosive. When GRIVAS was in need of a 'safe' house, he provided his to the leader. It was located at Kakopetria, the most prosperous village in the Marathassa valley. 'It was a small, isolated building overlooking the jumble of jutting balconies and tin roofs,' GRIVAS recalled later. 'Here I was free to do my work.'

KATSOURI, Yiannis (As a goodwill gesture, Governor FOOT commuted death sentences to terms of life imprisonment for several Eoka prisoners. These included Katsouri, who was born at Komi Kebir in 1902. He had been a member of a hit-and-run gang)

KAYIA, Andreas Sofronou (He survived the conflict and died, aged 65, in Nicosia. His press obituary described him as an agnostis (fighter), but Eoka does not claim him as a member.)

KEKKOS, Andreas. (In November 1956 he helped to severely damage several new buildings in Dhekelia Military Base by placing time-bombs.)

KELIS, Christos (No details available at present).

KILLIANTHOUS, Priest (He operated in Lakatamia, where he was assigned to distribute Eoka propaganda leaflets, but, in fact, added to his income by selling them.)

KITIUM, Bishop. (Born in Lazania in 1905, he received his early theological training at Kykko Monastery. In August 1956, he was placed under restriction by the government for his Eoka activities, some of which were revealed in the Grivas Diaries.)

KLEANTHOUS, Christodoulou. (Born 1916 in Psilolofou, he was farmer who supplied Eoka gangs with food. He was caught and interned by the Security Forces.)

KLEANTHOUS, Christodoulou. (Born 1935 in Mesoyi Paphos, he was a Customs official who assisted Eoka by turning a blind-eye on the organization's imports. He was caught before causing too much damage and interned. After independence in 1960, he was appointed Chief of Customs in Paphos. In 2006 he was a restaurant owner.)

KLOKKARIS, Antonis. (He taught agriculture and became an organizer of the Farmers' Union.)

KOKKINOFTAS, John (Iannis). (Born 1930 in Kaminaria, he was a policeman who assisted Eoka fugitives in the Pedhoulas area.)

KOKKINOS, Andreas (He operated in the Trulli area and became the leader of the execution squad in Larnaca. In June 1956, he murdered Sgt R W TIPPLE, while he was sitting in his parked vehicle. Nicos TSARDELLIS was charged and found guilty of the crime. Sentenced to death, it was later he found to be innocent and reprieved. Earlier Kokkinos had wanted to confess his crime, but GRIVAS refused permission, willing to allow TSARDELLIS to die for an offense he had not committed. Barely 5ft 3inches, Kokkinos. aged 23, was captured 15.01.57.)

KOKKINOS, Chrysostomou Alecos (He worked with Takis KAIZER in attacks on US property in Athens.)

KOKKINOS, Patroclos. (Gunned down and killed by members of 1 Royal Leicesters in a firelight with terrorists at a farm near Lysi on 10.02.57. The other gang members were - Bassos CHRISTOFI, Manolis HIMONAS, Demos MICHAELIDES, Kyriakos NIKOLAOU and George ZENOPOULAS.)

KOKKINOU, Louella (As a young secretary working for the Cyprus Transport Corporation, she was able to arrange the best smuggling routes and drivers to use for the delivery of messages and arms to EOKA personnel. The CTC was the Island's largest transport company. The eldest of three sisters - Maroulla and Ourania were the other two - she was eventually arrested and held by the authorities in Nicosia's Central Prison. While in prison, she revealed she was the leader of EOKA's movement. Later MAKARIOS told the world's media that she was one of many prisoners being brutally treated by her captors. He claimed she had 'lost her front teeth after a rough blow from her sadist tormentor'. The authorities then published her dental records. These showed that the 'lost' teeth were removed by her dentist before 25.06.55, whereas she was arrested and interrogated for the first time on 23.05.56. In reality Louella Kokkinou, with her sister, was highly trusted as a courier by GRIVAS. At Easter 1956, she spent the holiday with the 'Leader' at Kykko Monastery.)

KOLOKASISI, Kyriakos. (With his cousin Ioanas NICOLAOU, also aged 22, he was killed during the firelight that took place on 31.08.56 in Nicosia General Hospital in which Polycarpos GEORGHADJIS escaped. He was a farmer in his home village of Yeri.)

KONTOS, Apostolos (A Government District Officer, he assisted EOKA fugitives. No further details recorded.)

KONSTANTINOU, Alekos. (Born in 1936, his father abandoned his family at birth and Alekos was brought up by his mother. He grew up speaking excellent English and became a clerk for the British Army in Famagusta, where he was highly trusted. For this reason he was able to provide safe accommodation for Eoka members on the run. In April 1958 he was part of the group that assassinated William DEAR of Special Branch outside the Iraio cinema in Famagusta. Alekos left the area with his co-killers and joined Kostas PATSALIDES and Panyiotis GEORGIADIS. On 20.06.58 he was killed when a mine he was handling exploded prematurely.

KORONIDES, Andreas (Born 1928 in Kakopetria, he was interrogated by Captain LINZEE. At the Court Martial of Captains LINZEE and O'DRISCOLL in April 1956, Koronides alleged he was maltreated as a prisoner. Later he was released and allowed to leave Cyprus for Athens. His claims were prominently publicized in the local media.)

KOSHI, Nicos. Code-names: Lertas and Markhas. (Born 1933 in Dhali, he planned to attend university, but joined Eoka instead and became the 'private secretary' to an Eoka leader in Morphou/Guzelyurt area. The British saw him as a high value target and offered bribes to tempt villagers to betray him. The fact that nobody did suggests a remarkable degree of solidarity and sincerity on the part of the Greek Cypriot rebels - or intense fear of reprisal by Eoka. He was eventually arrested on 8 December 1956, but escaped.

He claimed later the British had tortured him at the Kokkinotrimithia and the Pyla/Pile Detention Camps. In an interview in July 1974, he denied he was a terrorist. 'I am a freedom fighter,' he insisted. 'I could not kill a British civilian. I don't agree with putting bombs in civilian places, such as shopping areas. I didn't and never would do that. You can take it that I am totally opposed to this form of indiscriminate terror: the way they do it now in several countries, putting bombs in buses, even in cinemas and places like that. I don't agree with that, or with hijack, or with kidnap. None of it. We were fighting against the British Army, as soldiers.' About his capture and escape, he said: 'I was arrested in the mountains. That night I had gone to visit somebody in Dhali. I was only there a few hours before British troops surrounded our house. Earlier the same day, one of my men had been captured. They had beaten him a lot. Eventually, he named me as his leader.'

He alleged British 'Specials' routinely tortured their prisoners. One particularly sadistic torturer was known as L. 'They beat me with everything. They stuck pins in me and pushed burning cigarettes into my chest. I was naked, my hands tied together behind my back.' Led by L, three British Special Branch officers took turns,' he said. 'They beat me for hours and hours, day and night. I was a fighter. If I captured British soldiers, I could kill them, yes. But not torture them. That I could not do.' Ironically, he added, 'Two Irish soldiers helped me escape. When peace came in 1959, I was a wanted man, up in the mountains: leader of a district in the struggle against the British. We were desperate people who had vowed to free ourselves from the British oppressors. Now? We like the British. I tell you, in 1960 I went to London to the London Clinic, to be treated for ulcers!'

The Security Forces' detention center at Kokkinotremithia - Camp K as it became better known.

Koshi said: 'They took me to the Special Branch and started beating me. They took off all my clothes; they tied my hands and my feet. Then they asked somebody to come in, a Cypriot. He was always either drunk or taking drugs. He was really mad with me, crying at one time, laughing at another: he was unbalanced. He was taking a stick to put up my bottom, he was putting cloths in water and then putting them on my face so I could not breathe, he threw me down and danced on my stomach when he was wearing boots. After twelve days, my body was really bad. I could not recognise myself.'

He had been Eoka's deputy leader in Nicosia.

On 10.01.58, with Tefkros LOIZOU, he escaped and served as Eoka commander of the Kokkinotrimithia-Morphou/Guzelyurt area until the end of the conflict, when he launched Agon, a newspaper for the new independent Republic of Cyprus. It failed and the publication was declared bankrupt. On 08.04.1997, he was appointed Minister of Justice and Public Order by President Glafcos CLERIDES, but was later forced to resign. While holding office, he flew to London and demanded Special Branch protection.)

KOTSIAS, Charalambous. (Hit and run operator in Paphos, not listed as a hero by Eoka)

KOTSONIS, Georgios (Born 1937 in Ay. Dhometios, he became an Eoka hit-and-run squad member in Nicosia. Like Chrysostomou KOKKINOS and Takis KAIZER, he was part of the gang that attacked US property in Athens in 1958. The Greek mainland authorities disapproved of the actions of these Greek Cypriots and sent them back to Cyprus, with the warning that Athens might cut off its support for Eoka if any further operations of this type took place.)

KOUKKIS, Michael. (He was killed 07.10.58. Although he was an active hit-and-run operator, Eoka does not consider him a 'hero' of the 'freedom struggle'.)

KOUMBARIDES, Xenephon. (He was the Director of the Ethnarchy office in Nicosia and used his office to link the Church to Eoka, although the Greek Cypriot religious leaders continue to deny a connection.)

KOUMIDES, Andreas. ((He was one of two young Eoka members who placed six bombs, designed to destroy the new British Military Hospital under construction at Dhekelia Base, where he was employed. The bombs exploded in hourly succession between 05.00 and 11.00 on 13.09.56. Several British military personnel were injured and considerable damage caused to the hospital.)

KOUOKIDES, Charalambous (One of Eoka 's student activists, he was a leafleteer and stone-thrower.)

KOURSOUMBA, Demetra. Code-names: Gabriel and Pankratios. (Born 1935 in Kaimakli, she was a housewife who became one of the 'Grivas girls', who performed a variety of chores from delivering messages and carrying weapons, she was arrested and held in Nicosia's Central Prison.)

KOUTALIANOS, Demetris (As a goodwill gesture Governor FOOT commuted death sentences to terms of life imprisonment for several EOKA prisoners. These included Koutalianos. He came from Pyrgos Tylerrias, where he was born in 1927. He operated as mountain gang member in and around Kato Zodia.)

*** KOUTSOFTAS, Michael (With Andreas PANAYIDES, he was sentenced to death for the murder of Cpl HALE. They were hanged 21.09.56 with another EOKA member, Stelios MAVROMMATIS.

Born at Pellometocho in the Nicosia district on 09.02.35, Koutsoftas had been initiated into EOKA by Papa LEFTERIS. Considered an important Eoka member, despite his left-wing opinions, Nicos SAMPSON was given orders to attempt his rescue from Nicosia General Hospital when Koutsoftas was taken there for treatment. SAMPSON, accompanied by four armed members of his gang and two young women, rushed into the hospital, ordered guards to release their manacled prisoner and raced him to their car, which they drove off at high speed. Only when they arrived at a small village outside the capital, where Koutsoftas was supposed to hide, did SAMPSON become aware that he had 'kidnapped' the wrong man. His prize instead was Argyros KARADYMAS, a Greek national caught up in the St George caique smuggling incident.
KARADYMAS was released to join a terrorist gang in the Troodos. Koutsoftas's last words: 'The only words the tyrants can hear from my lips are these: Freedom or Death. Even the prison walls have learned these words.')

KRAMBIS, Petros (Operated with a hit-and-run gang member in AkanthouTatlisu)

KRANIDIOTIS, Nicos (Secretary to the Ethnarchy Council, he was arrested by the colonial authorities for collaboration with EOKA.)

KYPRIANOU, Kypros (An Eoka killer, he turned informer. He was executed later under the direct orders of Colonel GRIVAS)

KYPRIANOU, Petrakis (An Eoka gunman, active in Larnaca, he was shot dead, aged 18, on 21.03.57 at Ora by the Security Forces. According to Greek Cypriot legend, before battle began, he told George CONSTANTINIDES, his comrade in arms, 'Tell my mother that her son died for his country with a smile on his lips. It is now my turn to sacrifice myself for my country just as AFXENTIOU did.'

Kyprianou was suspected of the murder of Sgt W JEPSON, the previous September. On 31.05.56, he had volunteered, with Yiakis IAKOVIDES, to attack Royal Navy visitors with British-made grenades. The mission ended in failure. Expelled from the American Academy in Larnaca for trouble making, the son of a prosperous grocer, he joined EOKA at the age of 15, taking his oath in St John's Church in Larnaca. During his year-long membership, he led hand grenade attacks on British military vehicles and executed so-called 'traitors' in the community. He vowed he would never be taken alive.)

KYPRIANOU, Spyros (He was Archbishop MAKARIOS's Londonrepresentative during the first two years of the Eoka conflict, untilasked to leave by the UK government. From August 1956 to March 1957, herepresented the Cyprus Ethnarchy in New York. Later on, he was allowedto return to his London post. He stayed in London until the signing ofthe London - Zurich Agreements and returned to Cyprus with ArchbishopMAKARIOS in March 1959. Whether he signed up to Eoka is not known. After independence, MAKARIOS made him the new Republic's Foreign Secretary. Following the Archbishop's death in 1977, he was elected President of Cyprus.

UN Secretary General Kurt WALDHEIM (center) chaired peace talks between Kyprianou (left) and Rauf DENKTAS, the Turkish Cypriot leader, to reunite the divided Island, but the new president broke offthe negotiations, which MAKARIOS had agreed.)

KYRANIDES, Stelios. (He hid GRIVAS in his Nicosia home in July 1955. Kyranides worked for the Government's Land Registry Office. His hobby was stamp-collecting which endeared him to GRIVAS, himself a keen philatelist. Those who saw them together say GRIVAS often broke off from his Eoka work to spend hours sorting and sticking stamps in albums.)

KYRIAKIDES, Andreas Solon. (A student from Athens, he smuggled arms to Cyprus in his suitcase.)

KYRIAKIDES, Anthimos, Deacon. Code name: Dikaios and Floyeros. (Putting aside his religious beliefs, he helped businessman Socrates ELIADES to run an Eoka arms-smuggling network, which was never discovered by the authorities. Born in 1927, Kyriakides came from Mylikouri. He answered directly to GRIVAS and became Eoka's main organizer of supplies and logistics throughout the Island.)

KYRIAKIDES, Kikkis. (Kikkis was the deacon's wife, a young woman, who drove him to meet his contacts. At one time, she had served in the British Army and knew English ways. She was confident of her ability to charm her way out of tight corners - and usually did.)

KYRIAKIDES, Cornelius. (An Eoka member, who worked as a postal clerk in Limassol, he devised a plan to smuggle arms into the country from abroad that bypassed security searches. He advised Eoka to address the arms parcels to a remote area, such as Ktima, where the authorities expected them to be checked, unless they carried a voucher stating they had passed Customs in Limassol. Kyriakides, in the sorting office, was in a position to provide these vouchers. This smuggling operation was very effective and was never discovered.)

KYRIAKIDES, Ioannis. (A teacher in Morphou/Guzelyurt, he was interned after the Security Forces found he was organizing students to fight the authorities.)

KYRIAKIDES, Kyprianos, Bishop of Kyrenia/Girne. (Exiled from Cyprus, he accompanied Archbishop MAKARIOS to the Seychelles on 09.03.56. He and MAKARIOS viewed the Eoka conflict from different points of view and were not known to co-operate.)

KYRIAKIDES, Renos. Code name: Romanos (He was the Bishop of Kyrenia's brother and established the first mountain gang for GRIVAS. It came into service in early June 1955. He studied Maths and Physics at Athens University and was among a group of students in Greece who were trained by army personnel to be underground fighters.

Bishop KYPRIANOS of Kyrenia/Girne arrives at the Nicosia Court to attend his brother's trial.
Almost immediately, Kyriakides personally led an assault on the police station at Amiandos (above), shooting dead Greek Cypriot Sgt I DEMOSTENOUS on 21.06.55.

On 23.11.55, under the command of GRIVAS, Kyriakides, with 15 others, set an ambush on the Troodos mountain road between Kyperounda and Agros. At about 15.00, with snow falling, they fired prematurely on an approaching armoured scout car and Land Rover without waiting for an order from GRIVAS. The Eoka mines failed to explode under the scout car, which made a successful getaway. The two occupants of the Land Rover were less lucky. While shooting back at the terrorists, their vehicle went out of control and fell into a ravine. Both British soldiers died. They were: Sapper R P MELSON and Lance Corporal R G SMITH, both from the Royal Engineers. During his career Kyriakides attacked 18 outlying police stations, before he was captured on 12.12.55, near Spilia, during a combined operation of 45 Marine Commando and 1 Gordons. He received a life sentence, part of which he served in Wormwood Scrubs and HMP Wakefield, where he formed a close friendship with the IRA's Seamus MURPHY, before returning to post-independence Cyprus. )

KYRIAKIDOU, Maroulla. (In August 1956, she worked at the Dhekelia Base. Unknown to the British, she was a highly placed member of EOKA's 'women's strike force'. A slim, blue-eyed 20-year-old, Eoka knew she could charm her way through security checks and she agreed to smuggle small bombs carried in her Thermos flask. Inside the base, Efthymios Papadopoulos KALOGYROS, another Dhekelia employee, collected and hid them until they were needed. On 09.08.56, he successfully set off several in two RASC storerooms at 625 Camp.

KYRIAKIS, Evangelos. (There are three EOKA men of the same name. One was born in Troulli of whom little is known. The second was born 1935 in Panayia, Paphos. For his activities, he was interned until the conflict's end. The third, not strictly EOKA, was a Greek broadcaster, who collaborated with the Nazi regime in WWII, operating from Berlin. His propaganda was designed to damage British interests in Greece and Cyprus.)

KYRIAKOU, Chrysanthos (Born 1929 in Trouli, he was a hit-and-run EOKA member in the Orines area.)

KYRIAKOU, Christos (Governor HARDING, on 24.04.57, commuted his death sentence to 10 years' imprisonment after he was found guilty of being a mountain gang member.)

KYRMITSIS, Father (He was the founder/officiate of the Cypriot Orthodox Church in North London - All Saints' - in opposition to the rule from St Sophia in Istanbul.)

KYTHREOTIS, Pavlos (He was a teacher in Paphos who used his pupils to become EOKA agitators.)

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