The political assassinations of 1958

Greetings:

MENELAOS Menelaos
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Prometheus Research Institute

NEOKLEOUS Neoklis (on behalf of the Antilogos Theater)


PROGRAM

SESSION 1
THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT OF THE PERIOD

9:40 - 10:00
KOUZOUPIS Nikos
Historian, Member of the Board of Directors of INEP
The Cold War and the historical and social context of the era

10:00 - 10:20
PANAGIOTOU Andreas
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Frederick University
From the death/murder of Leontios to the murders of 1958

10:20 - 10:40
MOUDOUROS Nikos
Lecturer, Department of Turkish Studies, University of Cyprus
"This winter communism will come":
Anti-communism in Turkey in the 1950s and Cyprus

10:40
Dr. ALEKOU Alexis
Historian, Open University of Cyprus
The emergence of far-right violence in Cyprus: from 1948 to 1958

11:00 - 11:30
Discussion

11:30 - 11:50
Break


SESSION 2

POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS OF GREEK CYPRIOTS AND TURKISH CYPRIOTS

11:50 - 12:10
KOLOKASIDIS Yiannakis
Historian
AKEL's stance on the political assassinations of left-wing leaders

12:10 - 12:30
KIZILGIUREK Niyazi
Professor, Department of Turkish Studies, University of Cyprus
Political Assassinations of Turkish Cypriots

12:30 - 12:50
MICHALIS Michalis
Historian, Researcher, Journalist
Political Assassinations of Greek Cypriots

12:50 - 13:20
Discussion

1:20 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Lunch


SESSION 3

ART IN THE SERVICE OF HISTORICAL TRUTH

2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
MYARIS K. George
Philologist-writer
The trauma of 1958 - History and literature meet in the writings of Greek Cypriot authors

14:50 - 15:10
ACHNIOUTIS Christos

Writer

Giving voice to people who were executed

The case of Savvas Menikos in a broader political context that extends to the present day