A Tale of Two Boats and the Cruel Turks

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Diafani’s caiques were essential to the life of the north of Karpathos during the war years. Vassilis Karellas recounts the story of two of these boats, and Manolis Makris tells us of the captain of one of the boats who had suffered awful injuries as a child at the hands of the occupying Turks.

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