126 Turkish Cypriots from Murata\u011fa \u2013Sandallar and Atl\u0131lar that had been martyred as a result of the massacre on 14 August 1974 were commemorated with services.<\/p>\n
In his speech, emphasizing that Turkish Cypriot community lived peacefully and without war until today since the Peace Operation, the Head of Murata\u011fa-Sandallar and Atl\u0131lar Martyrs Memorial Association Ahmet A\u015f\u0131r said that \u201cWe do not want to lose these peaceful days.\u201d Services started with laying wreaths to the monument, standing in silence and singing of the Turkish National Anthem and ended with the speech of Headmen of Yukar\u0131 Ta\u015fkent Durmu\u015f A\u015fand\u0131r, poetry reading and visiting the Martyrs Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n In his speech Headmen of Yukar\u0131 Ta\u015fkent Durmu\u015f A\u015fand\u0131r emphasized that on 14 August 1974 Greeks massacred 84 of their brothers and sisters from Ta\u015fkent and Terazi villages.\u00a0 Stating that 42 of the martyrs were buried in the village A\u015fand\u0131r asked the rest of the martyrs\u2019 DNA tests to be completed soon and those to be buried at that martyrdom.<\/span><\/p>\n Martyrs were also commemorated with services on the 41st anniversary of liberation of Lefke.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 126 Turkish Cypriots from Murata\u011fa \u2013Sandallar and Atl\u0131lar that had been martyred as a result of [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStressing that Turkish army is the guarantee of peace in the island A\u015f\u0131r said: \u201cWe do not want to go back from here.\u201d
\nTa\u015fkent Martyrs were also commemorated with services on the 41st anniversary of their massacre.<\/span><\/p>\n