Cyprus marks Ochi Day with parades as political parties call for unity and freedom

Cyprus is marking the 86th anniversary of October 28, 1940, on Wednesday with church services and parades across the island, as political leaders and parties pay tribute to those who fought against fascism and the Axis powers during the Second World War.

The anniversary, widely known as Ochi Day, commemorates Greece’s historic refusal to surrender to an Italian ultimatum on October 28, 1940, and the resistance that followed against fascism and, later, Nazism....