DISPLACED: A Turkish Cypriot Story - Out Now. The documentary DISPLACED: A Turkish Cypriot Story is now available to watch, released today on the Freedom and Fairness for Northern Cyprus YouTube channel. Told entirely through the first-hand testimony of those who lived it, the film traces the experiences of the Turkish Cypriot people across three of the most turbulent decades in the island’s history - from the 1950s, through the 1960s, and up to 1974 and its aftermath. It follows a thread of displacement, loss and endurance: of homes abandoned, villages burned, and livelihoods destroyed.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/S0JfaaN6duQ?si=QA_hDchlL69WHA6P
The documentary moves through the years of EOKA, the events of Bloody Christmas in December 1963, the Larnaca Missing Bus, the siege of Erenköy, and the attacks on Turkish Cypriot villages, before reaching 1974 and the massacres at Taşkent and at Muratağa, Sandallar and Atlılar, and closing on the population exchange agreement of 1975 that reshaped the island into the one we know today.
At its heart, DISPLACED is a film about people - about what was lost, what was survived, and what must never be forgotten. It gives voice to a generation who witnessed these events first-hand and are telling their stories in their own words.
DISPLACED: A Turkish Cypriot Story is supported by the Freedom and Fairness for Northern Cyprus campaign. It is available now, free to watch, on the campaign’s YouTube channel.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who has reported on, shared and supported the film, and we encourage all who care about this history to watch it and share it widely.
