#turkish-cypriot

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A Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, a victim of the Cyprus Civil War between Greek Cypriotes and Turkish Cypriotes, Ghaziveram, Cyprus, 1964 - by Don McCullin (1935), English

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(L-R): Meyrem Okay (born in 1936) and Ayşe Mustafa (born in 1933), taken in 1955 from Galinoporni/Kaleburnu.

The two young women are pictured wearing modern-sleeved dresses and traditional baggy pantaloons. This style of pantaloons was typically found in Karpasia/Karpaz. They are also wearing traditional headscarves (yemeni). This fashion style, a specific mesh of contemporary and traditional clothes, was not carried into the following decades, so this is a rare glimpse into a distinctive timeframe of Cypriot dress.

📸 source: The Aziz Damdelen Collection, Kioneli (Gönneli). Information provided by Euphrosyne Rizopoulou- Egoumenidou and Aziz Damdelen - ‘Turkish Cypriot dress: The Aziz Damdelen Collection’.

Disclaimer: Please note no copyright infringement intended, and I do not own nor claim to own any of the original images or information unless otherwise stated.

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HI sorry for confusion we're not Turkish, we're Bulgarian and taking Turkish in school (cause one of those languages is a lot easier for a monolingual English speaker in the US to learn than the other haha) 😔

But our phone is like 50% Turkish cause we're nerds and like the language lol

hii!! all good and thats so cool!!!

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Maronite women in Kormakitis (Kormajitis), Cyprus.

"For centuries, this small community of Maronites have retained a distinct identity rooted in their Catholic faith.

Ancestors of Christians who settled in Cyprus after fleeing what is now Lebanon and Syria in waves from the 8th century onwards, many were forced to move again when Cyprus was divided almost half a century ago.

The hamlet, Kormakitis, is the largest of four communities dispersed after a Turkish invasion, triggered by a brief Athens-inspired coup, divided Cyprus in 1974 among its mainly Orthodox Greek Cypriots and its Sunni Muslim Turkish Cypriots.

Less than 200 of the hamlet’s 2,000 strong community remained after the split, although a Turkish Cypriot relaxation on crossings in 2003, and permission in 2010 for Maronites to resettle there, has now boosted the population to about 250.

Families from the other three villages form part of a small, displaced Maronite minority in the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus.

Cypriot Maronite Arabic, also known as “Sanna,” is unique to Kormakitis and the forced separation of the community, along with assimilation and a focus by Cypriot authorities in the 1960s on teaching Maronites Greek, has eroded its use."

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I headcanon J. S. Steinman as a Cypriot. And it works.

Aphrodite's birthplace is in Cyprus and we all know how much Steinman loves Aphrodite. You know, make him a Jewish Cypriot. His family might as well come to Cyprus during the Ottoman period (late 16th century onwards) or even the late 19th century.

It very much works. Look at him. He looks like some Nicosian you'd see in your uncle's kebab shop or something. Just some guy you'd drink zivania and KEO with.

Wanna read more? Click on.

I say he has a mixed family of Turkish Cypriots, Greek Cypriots, and of course his Jewish roots. I mean, Cypriots are kind of chill with religion; for example, the Linobambakis would have both Christian and Muslim traditions and celebrations. Nothing conflicts with anything, you just have a personal relationship with religion over there.

So, here's our favorite Jewish (and Greek and Turkish) Cypriot who worships Aphrodite.

[Using the "There's Something in the Sea" data to build a 'canon' background here.] So, he vanishes from the US around the late 1940s, right? Apparently, he had a friendship with someone for 32 years. Let's say that their friendship started around 1918. Steinman was known for his face reconstruction work at a young age, and it makes sense because it would line up with the First World War. If we say that Steinman took only a few years of education to get to that degree with extraordinary success, it would mean that he was in the US at least by 1914.

It means that, in the game (Bioshock 1 - 1960), Steinman is at least 65 years old.

And, well, building a headcanon here: Let's say that his family left Cyprus because of the British occupation getting stricter with taxes and even hinting at conscription if/when the war broke out.

Now, imagine him.

He still misses home during his studies. He complains about not being able to find zivania (Cypriot drink) to drink. His family sometimes visits Cyprus and sends him some halloumi cheese over. He even visits Cyprus at some point and brings some cattle bones from the empty fields over Nicosia, say, Kythrea. He has them in his student dorm on his shelf.

I mean, don't think of a city when I say Kythrea or something. Think of a village, a very small one. Imagine him growing up there. He steals from the melon fields of the neighbors. He knows which wild weeds to pick to eat. Hell, he even experiments with which herbs are good for healing purposes, as his grandmother is a village elder who people go to for that kind of stuff. He learns that the branch of pharmaceutics exists just for that. Then, though, his focus shifts to medicine. Most importantly, surgeries --face reconstruction and all that. He's around 15 or something, they leave Cyprus.

Now, it's around the 1930s. Steinman is well over 30 at the time. His family had gone back to Cyprus at some point because they couldn't handle the US. His father picks the field up, and his uncle and his mother are running the barns & farm. Sometimes when Steinman visits, his uncle asks him to check the health of the cattle. "I'm not a vet!" doesn't work for Cypriots, you gotta do what you gotta do, lol. He stays there for half a year as a break and thinks about staying and working there as a vet because he really misses home... but the Second World War breaks out. The Brits are trying to draft up people for the Cyprus Regiment to fight in Europe or Northern Africa, especially those who know English being very much preferred... and Steinman has to flee once again. He tries to take his family to come with him as well, but they refuse. They cannot part from Cyprus once again.

Hell, the Brits manage to "convince" his father and uncle to join the Regiment. His mother goes to the US to stay with Steinman because it's hard being so lonely there. Steinman is making good money but you know, his father and uncle are deep in the war already and were as stubborn as mules about not coming to the US.

By the end of the war, his father gets injured, and they get a residency permit for the UK as a "gift" or something. His father decides to live there because he cannot work in the field easily anymore. His mother follows suit. Only his uncle remains in Cyprus. Steinman is alone in the US again.

He also read about Cypriot mythology, by the way. He learnt that Cyprus was Aphrodite's birthplace and now he believes that it's all fate that he is the best face reconstruction surgeon. He believes that he should work with "beauty" as well, and starts worshipping Aphrodite in the private and takes up aesthetic surgery.

He briefly visits Cyprus every once in a while. It's not horrible, but it feels lonely as hell. At least he has his uncle still running the farm, so they hang out and all that. When his uncle dies in the late 40s, though, he permanently goes back to the US.

He's now over 40. He expects to have a feeling of home, right?

The US doesn't feel right, though. There's business, yes, but he wants a home. He wants a place he can belong in. He feels like he needs to erase his name and face off the earth to ever belong somewhere, which feels impossible.

Until... Rapture happens.

Does he miss Cyprus? A bit, of course. But he knows he couldn't have lived there. It's a memory, but quite a strong one. At some point, he manages to convince Fontaine to smuggle him some zivania. For Fontaine's surgery (the Atlas thing, you know), Fontaine brings him soil from the fields, some molohiya (a cookable weed also called Jew's Mallow), and crates full of zivania and a new brand: KEO. When Steinman asks what it is, he tells him that it's the new fad around Cyprus, established in 1949. It's good beer, truly.

And, well, Fontaine had brought him so much zivania and KEO that he doesn't run out of them until his death.

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President Ersin Tatar met Turkish Cypriots in State of New York

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Tochni (Greek: Τόχνη; Turkish: Dohni), a quaint village situated in the Larnaca District of Cyprus.

Source - Facebook LittleManTravels photo album

Before the year 1974, Tochni boasted a diverse populace comprising both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots.

The village centre features the remains of a Latin church, standing above the Orthodox church of St Constantine and Helena. The current church was rebuilt on the original site, connected by a bridge, believed to be established by St Helena upon her return from the Holy Land with a fragment of the True Cross.

And of course, because this is Cyprus - you will always find these, no matter which traditional village you may choose to visit:

More photos of Tochni Village and information about the village itself can be viewed through the Source link.

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Distribution of Greek and Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus across the years.

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why are aliens always in the US? when are we gonna get a movie about an alien crash landing in cyprus and being raised by an unlikely coming together of greek and turkish cypriots?

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A black-and-white photograph of three Cypriot men taken in the Public Garden in Nicosia. The man on the left is Mehmet Mıstık, who was born in 1896. He wears a fez, a western-style jacket (sakgo/divişli sakgo), traditional vraga trousers, and a sash (hacı şalı guşak), which was likely brought back from pilgrimage to Mecca. The man in the middle standing on the stool has a trimmed moustache, wears a fez, and a western-styled three-piece suit with a kerchief around his neck in place of a tie, a silver or gold cord (sırmalı), and a ring on his left hand. The man on the right is Mustafa Mıstık (1892-1951), who was a butcher. Instead of a fez, he is wearing a headscarf (tsemberi/çember) with ornamental lace. He also wears a sash (hacı şalı guşak), an embroidered shirt (gömlek), black vraga, and detailed carnation (garifallo/garanfil) stockings.

📸 source: Aziz Damdelen Public Garden, Epicho (Abohor), Mesaoria, Nicosia District. Ali Mehter in the The Aziz Damdelen Collection Kioneli (Gönneli). Source information provided by Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou and Aziz Damdelen - ‘Turkish Cypriot dress: The Aziz Damdelen Collection’. https://moufflon.com.cy/product/turkish-cypriot-dress-the-aziz-damdelen-collection/.

Disclaimer: Please note no copyright infringement intended, and I do not own nor claim to own any of the original images or information unless otherwise stated.

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The main two political goals of ASALA were to get Turkey to recognize its culpability for the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and to establish a United Armenia, which would unite nearby regions formerly under Armenian control or with large Armenian populations. Additionally, ASALA stated in a Cypriot newspaper in 1983 that it supported the Soviet Union and aimed to garner support from other Soviet republics toward the cause of eliminating Turkish colonialism.[28] These goals helped shape the following political objectives: - Force an end to Turkish colonialism by using revolutionary violence - Attack institutions and representatives of Turkey and of countries supporting Turkey - Affirm scientific socialism as the main ideology of Armenia[17][...]

ASALA had ties to Palestinian liberation groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist militant group in which ASALA founder Hagop Hagopian was rumored to have been a member in his youth.[72] Through his involvement with Palestinian groups, Hagopian earned the nickname "Mujahed," meaning "Warrior."[28] Hagopian's sympathetic connection with Palestinian liberation/separatist movements bolstered ASALA's goals and helped pave the way for ASALA's eventual training with another Palestinian rebel group, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).[73]

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https://www.evros-news.gr/2024/08/05/komotini-proklisi-tragoydhsan-to-embathrio-katastrofhw-thw-smyrnhw/

A Turkish Cypriot woman sang in Κομοτηνή a song about the Smyrna catastrophe... :/

A few months passed since this happened. I am sorry I couldn't reply earlier. I am not easily heated when it comes to such issues but on Greek ground, one singing a happy marching song on how their people took Smyrna, is objectively quite offensive.

Cause they didn't just "take Smyrna". They caused one of the most known massacres and destruction of cities of the early 20th century which was documented in real-time on the shores, and it was also the height of the Christian years-long genocide (Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians) they did, a genocide so cruel to the point Hitler himself was inspired by it.

The festivity was done based also on Greek funders. Out of respect to the Greek funders and the Greek town they were in, the whole production ought to stop this. There are many ways to foster community among the Turks of Komotini, and ways that are way much better than that.

It's like Israelis coming to Gaza a hundred years in the future and singing a romanticized marching song about what they did to Gaza. Simply disgusting.

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TCE and Willy Lind: The Unsung Hero of the Turkish Cypriots

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Fight between United Nations Peacekeepers and Turkish Cypriot security forces on Cyprus. UN forces reportedly attempted to stop construction of what they said was an unauthorized road. (August 2023)