Q. How was your relationship with your Greek
neighbors?
We lived together without any problem. They were good also.
We hadn't been harmed by them. We didn't do any harm to them,
and they didn't do any to us. After soldiers from Greece came to
the island, they attacked our village. Then we were collected in
the school of our village. We all stayed in the school.
Then, after we came back to our houses, the soldiers of Greece had broken the locks and destroyed our houses. They took all the things in our houses and stole our furniture. Then we went to the school again, and we stayed in there a very long time. Then we left from there and we were sent to the village called Evdim. The war all also started in Evdim. We lived through some very bad things there. Then the Greek soldiers left the village and we stayed there in Evdim.
Q. Did your Greek neighbors or your villagers attack
you?
No, no, they didn't attack us. The soldiers who came from
Greece attacked us. The soldiers wanted to kill us. But our
village's administrator didn't let them kill us. He said: "If
you do anything to or if you even touch my Turks, you have to
kill me first. No one will even touch our Turkish villagers."
And because of that only a few people had been killed.
Q: Were they in your village?
Yes.
Q: Were they Turkish?
Yes.
Q: Did your villagers do this, or the soldiers of
Greece?
No, the soldiers of Greece did.
Q. In which year did this events happen? It was in 1963. We were living together with our Greek villagers in peace. They also thought the same of us. No bad things happened between us, but when the soldiers of Greece came, everything was destroyed. Some of us were killed.
Then they left our village, we went to Evdim, then we came
back to our village Malya again. We moved to North Cyprus, and
we are still living in here in peace.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Occupation (or life's work): Housewife.
Age: 73.
Sex: Female.
Nationality: Turkish Cypriot.
Where now lives (country and city/town/village): Adinkoy, near Guzelyurt.
Where lived during the events described during the interview:
During the war she stayed in Malya and Evdim villages, in the South.
What was the occupation (or life's work) of the main income
earner in the household when growing up: Farmer.