Turkish Cypriot History, Culture and National Struggle Museum opens its doors

The Turkish Cypriot History, Culture and National Struggle Museum has been opened in Lefkoşa.

The museum displays military and civil documents, weapons, paintings, clothes and historical photographs of the national struggle of the Turkish Cypriot people which began in 1878 and has continued uninterruptedly. In the garden of the museum, there are statues of 51 historical figures who contributed to the Cyprus cause, especially the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The armoured vehicles and cannons used by the Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT) in the fight against Greek Cypriot attacks from 1963 to 1974 are also displayed in the museum garden.

The museum, which displays dozens of artefacts including the fishing boat used to carry weapons from Türkiye to Cyprus during the years of struggle and the training and pilot badges of the Martyred Pilot Captain Cengiz Topel and the parts of his plane that crashed in 1963, aims to transfer the past of the Turkish Cypriots to future generations.