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25 July, 2017The Taşpınar martyrs will be commemorated today. President of Martyrs’ Families and War Veterans Association Ertan Ersan issued a message in which he commemorated the Taşpınar martyrs. Ersan said that the people of Taşpınar village were subject to attacks by Greek soldiers and defended their village during the 1974 Peace Operation. Ersan also expressed that the Taşpınar citizens became martyrs on the 22nd July 1974 as a result of the barbarous attacks of the Greek Cypriots.
Furthermore, Ersan stressed that 2 Turkish Cypriots in 1964 and 8 in 1974 became martyrs in Taşkent village.