Alaminos massacre

Alaminos massacre
Part of atrocities against Turkish Cypriots during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
LocationAlaminos, Larnaca, Cyprus
Date20 July 1974
Victims13 or 14 or 15 Turkish men
PerpetratorsCypriot Greeks, mainland Greeks
MotiveAnti-Turkish sentiment, Islamophobia, Greek nationalism, Hellenization

Alaminos massacre (Turkish: Aleminyo katliamı) was a massacre of 13 or 15 Cypriot Turkish civilians in the village of Alaminos which happened on 20 July 1974. A year later the survivors of the massacre fled to Kythrea.

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