Nikniknoo wrote:Can anyone help?
We are travelling to North Cyprus this year (never been and very excited!) we are staying in Alsancak. Is there a Gp or hospital nea there?
I have a healthy compromised child who may need immediate atention ad I will need to know where I can get help from ASAP.
Hope someone can help.
Thanks
Nikniknoo, I am a Greek Cypriot and the for a thousand years proper name of the place you mentioned above is
Karavas! It also happens to be my mother's village. It is the place at which Turkey in 1974 illegally invaded and started its ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Greek Cypriot population of that area! "Alsancak," which in Turkish it means "red banner" (from the innocent blood of the Greek Cypriot inhabitants that the Turkish invading troops spilled in their pursue to illegally conquer the area,) is the illegal name they gave to my mother's village after they usurped the land of the Greek Cypriots. If you go around this village, you will count some 5 Greek Cypriot (GC) churches, 3 GC cemeteries, two GC elementary schools and one high school. Chances are the hotel or villa you will stay is built in an illegally usurped GC land, since there were no TCs living in that area! Chances are, the place you will stay is situated on one of the many mass craves of massacred GCs during the 1974 Turkish invasion. Three hundred of my mother’s co-villagers are still missing since then!
Further down, on the coastline were the Turkish act of aggression started, on the 5th mile, the Turks have built a few grotesque and kitsch monuments to celebrate their piracy, which euphemistically, nevertheless cynically, they named a "peace operation!"
If you wish to know more about Karavas, here is a link for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karavas
Now that you know where you are going, have a nice holiday!