The Missing Bus Monument, built in memory of the 11 martyrs killed in Larnaca in 1964, was inaugurated with a ceremony.<\/p>\n
11 Turkish Cypriots, who\u00a0left their homes from Larnaca by a bus to work\u00a0at\u00a0the British Bases in\u00a0Dhekelia on May 13, 1964, were abducted from the bus by Greek Cypriot police officers, and after being shot, they were thrown into a well around the Greek Cypriot village of Oroklini, near Larnaca. In 2007, as a result of the efforts of the Committee on Missing Persons, their remains were found\u00a0but the bus is still missing.<\/p>\n
The personal belongings of the martyrs found when they were taken out from the well where they were thrown after being brutally murdered, will also be exhibited in the museum built at the monument.<\/p>\n
President Ersin Tatar, Speaker of the TRNC Assembly Zorlu T\u00f6re, Prime Minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel, Ambassador of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye to Lefko\u015fa, Metin Feyzio\u011flu, Ministers, MPs, military officials, guests from Azerbaijan and T\u00fcrkiye and the citizens attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n
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