Aegean Liberation Movement

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### Location

* Cyprus (HQ)
* Greece (Cell)
* Turkey (Cell)

### Leader(s)

* Charis Antonis
* Kyveli Stavros

### Goal

* Overthrow the Cyprus Government to force them to join CONFESS (successful)
* Cause enjoy destruction to the militaries and cities of both Greece and Turkey to force them to withdraw all claims to the contested regions of the Aegean Sea. (ongoing)

### Allies

* True Sons (backers)
* The Fireflies (suppliers)

The **Aegean Liberation Movement** (ALM) are militant separatist faction based in Cyprus with cells in both Greece and Turkey. They were formed after the overthrow of the previous island's government and the enlistment in the Coalition of Nations for Equality, Stability, and Security (CONFESS) by a small group civilian rebels.

Now backed by the Cyprus government, and secretly supplied by the True Sons and The Fireflies, their goals are to cause as much destruction through terror attacks and covert sabotage to both Turkey and Greece to force them to withdraw all military claims to the disputed regions of the Aegean Sea so that Cyprus can annex neighboring islands and establish itself as an independent regional power. They also see Greece and Turkey as recklessly endangering the citizens of the Aegean in their disputes and believe that neither nation have the right to or are responsible to control the region.

While they mostly target military targets, they have no qualms about collateral damage and are not afraid to use chemical, biological, and radiological weapons in their goals. While mostly comprised of Cyprus nationals, they have members from Greece, The Balkan States, The United Kingdom, Turkey, as well as ex-ISIL, Al-Qaeda, Chechnyan, Engineers, and Taliban fighters. They are a relatively small movement, with numbers varying in the low thousands.

Because of their destructive naval terror tactics, they are designated as a terrorist organization by Interpol alongside Greece and Turkey. Since the onset of the True Sons-GSA War, they have committed dozens of shootings, bombings, and ransom kidnappings, including the hijacking of a civilian cruise liner in disputed waters, an event which resulted in the deaths of six Greek Marines, eleven hostages, and eight ALM fighters.

## Origins

The ALM originated, as many organization of their like often do, as many different rebel groups that arose in the island of Cyprus following the Dollar Flu outbreak. The isolation of the island meant that aid shipments never came and the stationed UN peacekeepers were withdrawn, allowing tensions to explode between the Republic of Cyprus (ROC) to the south, and the northern Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, who many residents saw as an extension of Turkey, the only country that recognized it, and an illegitimate and illegal occupation.

These rebel factions, the largest of which was led by ROC female politician Kyveli Stavros, banded together and overthrew the occupation, uniting the island once again under a single banner. Stavros was elected as the new leader of the united island. However, the wounds were still not healed. Many Cyprus citizens were fed up with their islands being at the center of power plays between Greece and Turkey, and they wanted to not only put an end to the feud, but establish themselves as a respected power in the region, carving out their own independent zone in the Aegean sea.

After holding a meeting with her advisors, among them former Greek Naval officer Charis Antonis, it was decided that the only feasible way to do any of that was to use the chaos of the virus and the True Sons-GSA War to cripple the military, industrial, and political power of Greece and Turkey so severely, it would take both nations decades to recover, by which time Cyprus would have gained enough strength to ward them off.

And luckily for them, CONFESS was more than happy to supply them with everything a budding militant group could need. A fleet of Firefly stealth subs flooded the island with weapons, ammo, equipment, and stolen military intelligence. Carson Gray provided training to the soldiers, while agents of Task Force Oppressor shipped in surface to air missile systems and anti-ship missiles, and a corps of True Sons Engineers fortified the island from invasion.

With around 10,000 trained and equipped fighters, mostly young males, and a growing flood of foreign fighters to their ranks, the Aegean Liberation Movement was born.