Personal Stories From 1963-1974

• Mehmet. "Those who couldn't reach the buses to turn back got lost or died."
• Ahmet. "We were not even sleeping during those days."
• Kemal. "Turkish mujadeen ...told him that the Greeks had cut the road..."
• Teacher. "No Turkish Cypriot was allowed to leave his or her village to visit relatives, because they were afraid."
• Sevgi. "For 11 years we lived like migrants. During this time we lived by the help of Turkey."
• Sevgi. "We saw that one of our Greek neighbors broke in to our house and he killed my brother for no reason."
• Salih. "We had to leave our houses and villages. We lost our relatives and families. What worse could have happened?"