Forgotten Cyprus hero who eradicated island's malaria
BBC News By Tabitha Morgan image copyrightThe Cyprus Review image captionIt took just over three years for Mehmet Aziz to complete his task in Cyprus They called him The Great Liberator. His name was Mehmet Aziz and he was behind one of Cypruss most important achievements of the last century. And yet no-one apart from a handful of Cypriots has heard of him. Aziz was a Turkish Cypriot health official who ensured that Cyprus became the first malarial country in the world to completely eradicate ...
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