Tax resistance had a role in the struggles over the future of Cyprus in the , at least according to this Spectator article (excerpt):
[T]he Turkish community has had time to complete its scheme to wreck the [British government’s] plan. Led still in name by Dr. [Fazıl] Kutchuk but effectually now by Raud Denktash, a shrewd and able lawyer (whom the Government lost from its service three months ago because it would not even pay him the salary of a fledgling lawyer from England), the Turks propose to introduce partition “by avalanche.” Already they have refused to pay taxes to the Greek-majority municipalities, they have obliged their workers to leave the mixed trade unions and all inter-community associations, they have torn down signs in English and Greek.
