Packet 7: Tossup 11

A 20,000-square-meter wooden building served as an orphanage for this ethnicity on the “Big Island” (10[1])until its forceful closure by the Directorate General of Foundations. The false flag bombing of a leader’s birthplace led to pogroms targeting this ethnicity on September 6 and 7. The proposal of “Thirteen Points” by a leader of this ethnicity triggered a period of violence that included the 1963 “Bloody Christmas” massacre. (10[3]-5[1])The presidency (-5[1])was reserved for this ethnic group (10[1]-5[2])in a constitution outlined in the London and Zürich agreements, (-5[3])which resolved an “Emergency” (10[1])involving this ethnicity’s (-5[1])EOKA (-5[1])(“ay-OH-kuh”) paramilitary. (10[2])In (10[1])1974, Operation (10[1]-5[1])Attila (10[1])took place after an archbishop of this ethnicity (10[2])was deposed in a coup by nationalists seeking enosis. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])the Cyprus Problem is a dispute between Turkish Cypriots and members of what ethnicity? (10[1])■END■ (10[9])

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