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Gaziveren Memorial

Lefke, North Cyprus

The Gaziveren Memorial

This graveyard, which can be found on the outskirts of Lefke, contains the bodies of Turkish Cypriots from the village of Gaziveren and surrounding areas who were killed by Greek Cypriots in their quest for Enosis.

Most of the graves date to 1964, when hundreds of EOKA activists attacked Gaziveren, near Yesilyurt. The attackers were held off by the residents, armed only with some hunting rifles, until threatened intervention by Turkey forced a negotiated ceasefire.

 

 

 

 

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