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A commemorative ceremony was held yesterday at the Küçük Kaymaklı Martyrs’ Monument in memory of the Küçük Kaymaklı martyrs.
In his address, the Speaker of the Assembly Ziya Öztürkler stressed the importance of understanding the suffering, heroism, and the honourable struggle of the ancestors of the Turkish Cypriot people from past to present.
Addressing the youth in particular, Öztürkler said, “We must know the past very well so that we can move forward into the future with confident steps. We need to know 1571, 1878, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1974, and 1983 very well.”
Öztürkler noted that the Greek Cypriot leader’s statements made no mention of Türkiye’s guarantor status or the presence of Turkish troops, adding that they had witnessed the joint agreements between Greece, South Cyprus, and Israel.
He stated that the agreements made by the Greek Cypriot administration under the guise of armament with the United States, Israel, and France had turned the island into a powder keg.
Stating that ‘Our sovereign equality in the TRNC, our security, Türkiye’s guarantor status, and the presence of Turkish troops on the island are not matters of debate for us,’ Öztürkler said they would not fall for such schemes again.