Turkish Cypriots, who fell martyrs on December 24, 1963 in Kumsal region of Lefkoşa by Greeks and Greek Cypriots, have been commemorated yesterday with a ceremony organised in front of the Martyrs memorial at the Museum of Barbarism in Kumsal, Lefkoşa.

Speaking at the commemoration ceremony, Secretary General of the Association of Martyrs Families and War Veterans Mehmet Kasabalı said that Greek Cypriots started to enforce their dream ‘Enosis’ 54 years ago everywhere of the island, and Turkish Cypriots were stopped and kidnapped from various regions every day.

Adding that a Greek military officer carried out an attack with about 150 Greek Cypriots in Kumsal on 24 December, 196, Kasabalı said that Major Nihat İlhan’s wife and his three children were killed on that day. Kasabalı also said that Erdoğan Rifat, Tuncer Hasan, Muhip Hüseyin, Aziz Güner, Mustafa Hasan, Mustafa Mehmet and the owner of the house, where İlhan’s wife and his children were killed, Feride Hasan also fell martyrs on 24 December, 1963.