#Oxi Day

Greece and Cyprus face common international challenges today, but the greatest and most enduring remains the Turkish occupation, Greece’s ambassador to Cyprus Konstantinos Kollias said at the official October 28 ...

Student parades were held in all towns on Monday to celebrate Oxi Day – the rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum to Greece on October 28, 1940 – which led to Greece’s victorious war ...

Footage from the annual 28th October parade – mostly made up of high school and university students – marking Greece’s resistance to Nazism and Fascism during World War II, though also ...

Cyprus marked ‘Oxi Day’ on Monday, commemorating Greece’s rejection of Axis forces’ demand to enter its territory on October 28, 1940, during World War II. In Nicosia, President Nikos Christodoulides, accompanied ...

Oxi Day was celebrated on Saturday morning with a parade through the streets of Cyprus’ towns and cities. Schoolchildren, soldiers and others in traditional Greek dress walked to the sound ...