Nikos Sampson

Nikos Sampson

Nikos Sampson (Greek: Νίκος Σαμψών; born Nikolaos (Nikos) Georgiadis, Νίκολαος (Νίκος) Γεωργιάδης; 16 December 1935 – 9 May 2001) was a Cypriot journalist, militant and politician, who was installed as acting President of Cyprus during the 1974 coup. A former journalist and EOKA militant pardoned under the London and Zürich Agreements, Sampson was first elected Member of the House of Representatives in 1960 on a platform of Enosis (unification with Greece). As a prominent supporter of the 1974 coup, he was installed by its leaders as the island’s President. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikos Sampson has received more than 341,464 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Nikos Sampson is the 7,247th most popular politician (up from 7,463rd in 2019). (up from 22nd in 2019)