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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 Cyprus s 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 the disease.
Known to his compatriots as the fly man , he had studied under Nobel-prize winning malaria specialist Sir Ronald Ross, who had found the type of mosquito that transmitted the disease. I came across Aziz s story accidentally in the course of researching a book about British colonial Cyprus.