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[mehmet]

Thanks Jerry, for making me aware of this interview. I hope the woman interviewed finds some answers to her questions about the other two relatives. That such a thing happened in a mixed village seems to make it worse as I understand from my mother there was little friction between both communities and they used to celebrate each others religious events amongst other things.

[Bananiot]

I am sure he did. Kyriakos is a very respected figure in the Cypriot community of London. He is extremely knowledgeable and politically a moderate left winger. Let me tell you a secret. Between 1974 and 1979 I was the editor of the English section of "Paroikiaki".

[halil]

İt is very sad . Just pray to got we will not have days like these ones again .


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[Jerry]

Thanks Jerry, for making me aware of this interview. I hope the woman interviewed finds some answers to her questions about the other two relatives. That such a thing happened in a mixed village seems to make it worse as I understand from my mother there was little friction between both communities and they used to celebrate each others religious events amongst other things.

You are right Mehmet, there was little friction but I remember when I visited KK in 1972 my auntie was not quite as friendly towards her Turkish neighbours as she appeared to be in earlier years - it may have been a political matter or just a personal thing. My uncle was quite prominent person in the village, he went into Famagusta with his wife one day but could not get back home because Turkish troops had cut off the panhandle. Its quite possible he would have shared the same fate as Yiannos if he had returned. Apparantly a lot of old scores were settled by both sides in that way, it often had little or nothing to do with politics.

[mehmet]

I came across a website about missing people and when I asked my mother about the people from her village pictured and named she said without hesitation they were EOKA and killed. I don't know if she knew they were or not as she hadn't lived on the island since 1965 and possibly she was just making a generalisation. Who knows? The sad thing for me was the lack of emotion as she looked at the pictures. I do remember there were still some older Greek Cypriots women still in the village when I visited in 1976 but by 1981 there were none.