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Cyprus recent history and Barbarism Museum. When the dates showed on a hot 16 August 1960, the representatives of the countries from Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom prepared a constitution as a result of their meetings and contacts in Zurich, Switzerland, and thus the Republic of Cyprus was established as an independent state.. After this establishment, Makarios III was elected as the first president of the Republic of Cyprus.. Although he pretended to be neutral the first year, his true purpose was revealed later on.. Cyprus wanted to be joined to Greece.
When İsmet İnönü resigned in November 1963, there was a temporary government vacuum in Turkey.. Andreas Papandreou was victorious in the elections held in Greece on the same days.. As soon as Papandreou took office, just like Makarios, he loudly stated that some articles of the Cyprus constitution, which was created with the agreement signed in Zurich, should be changed and Cyprus should be connected to Greece.. The Turkish side, on the other hand, was against making changes to the constitution.
EOKA Militants Arrive to the Island
After all this, in order to connect Cyprus to Greece, Makarios allowed twenty thousand EOKA militants to come to the island.. Thus, Akritas put his plan into action.. According to the plan, Turkish villages would be destroyed and Nicosia would be captured.. On December 4, 1963, EOKA terrorists bombed the statue of the previously killed organization militant Markos Drakos and threw this incident on the Turks.. And by announcing this event to the world public opinion as “the Turks attacked us”, they created a suitable environment for attacking the Turks.. In the Tahtakale district of Nicosia, on the night of December 20, 1963, Turkish women walking on the street were wanted to be searched, and this was done with some force.. When the people started to resist this, the Greeks, who got angry, rained bullets on those who tried to intervene.. Turks named Zeki Halil and Cemaliye Emirali lost their lives.
And the fuse of events was ignited by these deaths.. Although the Turkish youth wanted to condemn this action of the Greeks with a march, the EOKA Greeks, who took advantage of this, were holding the Nicosia Turkish High School with a barrage and attacking the Atatürk statue and Rauf Denktaş’s office.. The Greek Cypriot forces also started to support the EOKA militia, whose arrow was released from the bow.
BLOODY CHRISTMAS MASSACRE
Christmas was celebrated by the Greeks by brutally killing the Turks. The Greeks of EOKA continued their murders in Ayvasıl village on 21 and 22 December and massacred 21 more Turks whose bodies were found in the subsequent excavations.. Around 300-400 Turks were fighting to save their lives with their old weapons against the EOKAist Greeks, who were more numerous than they were.. The most terrifying of these massacres took place on the night of December 24, 1963, at the house on Martyr Mürevvet İlhan Street in Kumsal District.
This house was the house of the Turkish Cypriot Forces AI Crew doctor, Elazig. Major Nihat İlhan. The Greeks, armed with two weapons, came to the door of the house in the middle of the night. Major Nihat İlhan was not at home.. He left his home on December 18 and went to the Moon and could not return to his home for days.. He was bandaging the wounds of the wounded Turks in Gönyeli and Küçükkaymaklı and was giving them healing.. Nihat İlhan returned to Turkey from America 6 months ago, started to work at Haydarpaşa Military Hospital, and was soon transferred to Cyprus.. 2.5 months after he came, he took his children with him and kept this house next to Turkish Cypriot families so that they would be safe.
Greeks in Nicosia Beach Area for Attack
Monday On the night of December 23, the night before, the host Hasan Yusuf Gudum, his wife Feride Hasan Gudum, Ayşe Cankan from Meriç, his two-year-old daughter Işıl Cankan in his arms and Ayşe Hanım’s sister Növber İbrahimoğlu thought that it was safer and the Medical Officer in the Turkish Cypriot Regiment Major Nihat İlhan and his wife Mürüvet took shelter in her house.
The dates show 24 December 1963.. from tuesday. Location Beach area of Nicosia, Mehmet Akif street and Mürüvet İlhan Street, the name of that day is İrfan Bey Street. It’s dark around 18:00 in the evening. The air temperature is about 80 degrees. A small Greek unit under the command of the EOKA militia and Greek Officers was deployed to the Severis flour factory, 120 meters north of the house, with machine guns, semi-machine guns and pistols. While Hasan Yusuf Gudum was on the lookout outside, Mürüvet Hanım fed her children and was preparing to put them to bed.. The neighbor ladies in the house prepared something to eat and sat at the table together.
Sounds of Guns in Kanlıdere
Gunshots from the other shore of Kanlıdere passing through the west side of the house. As soon as it started to be heard, Hasan Bey entered in a great hurry and warned the people in the house by shouting excitedly, “The Greeks are raiding us”.. Soon, bullets started pouring into the house by the Bloody Dere.. Feeling that the dining room in front of the kitchen is dangerous and that they cannot protect themselves from the bullets entering the house from the windows, in the face of the bullets coming like rain, nine innocent and defenseless people try to hide in the places they think is safe by turning off the electricity.
Dr.. İlhan’s wife Mürüvet Hanım, 6-month-old son Hakan, 6-year-old son Murat and 4-year-old Kutsi, holding their hands tightly, runs towards the bathroom located in the back left corner of the house.. Növber Hanım and Ayşe Hanım and Hasan grandfather, who hold her daughter Işıl tightly in their arms, enter the bathroom together and try to hide.. The bathroom, with its thick stone walls and a small window, is indeed a good shelter.. Mürüvet, who is wearing a gray coat, hugs her children in striped pajamas and tries to protect themselves from the bullets entering the windows by lying in the bathtub together.. Ayşe, with her daughter Işıl in her arms, crouches in the right corner, on the right side of the sink.. Növber Hanım sits on the right side of the door in order to close the door tightly with her hand.. The owner of the house, Hasan Efendi, hides his wife, Feride Nine, behind the door of the toilet, and comes to the bathroom and huddles to the left of the sink.
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Greeks first shoot at houses from afar, under the protection of the machine gun on the Severis Un factory. In particular, they shower the windows of the north-facing room of the white one-story house on the corner, right next to the door, with the thought that someone in that room might shoot at them as they approach the house. When the white house did not open fire against them, the Greek thugs, even more emboldened, come in front of the entrance door and shoot at the lock, and then kick the door and break in.
The two thugs, holding automatic rifles in their hands, said, “You want Taksim, huh!” he shouts indiscriminately in all directions, and after a quick glance into the room to the left, they rush forward, through the door in front of them, into the hall to the left bedroom, and start shooting again.. Their resentment ordered them to kill any living thing that got in their way.
When their work in this room is finished, they quickly pass through the front door, come to the hall in front of the kitchen, and shoot at the second bedroom on the left.. To beds, under beds and closets. The group at the back first dives into the right guest room, then shoots and goes to the kitchen. The innocent and defenseless Turks, who took shelter in the tiny bathroom, prayed that the Greeks, who were hugging each other, would not find themselves.. In the bathtub, Mürüvet lady hugged her three children tightly and shielded her body.. Ayşe lady hugged her daughter Işıl with her arms, her back was on the corner, she was nestled between the sink and the corner, Növber Hanım knelt by the door to prevent the door from opening.. Grandpa Hasan was also shriveled in that tiny bathroom, between the right side of the sink and the tub.. They weren’t even breathing. They were only praying to Allah.
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Növber Hanım, who tried to keep the door tightly closed with her hand, got a bad wound from her hand and slumped to one side and slumped in front of the door. Mürüvet lady and her three children, in the bath tub right across the door, collapse into the tub.. The Greeks, who tried to open the door as if they were breaking, can open the door a little because the Növber lady has collapsed in front of the door and they shoot again to the right and forward from that gap.. Loyal mother and her children become martyrs at that moment.. As the place suddenly turns into a bloodbath, the Greek thugs, thinking they have killed them all, immediately head for the toilet next door.. They can’t open the door, but they shoot dozens of bullets through the plywood door.
Feride, who was hiding behind the door, was instantly killed by the bullets hitting her head and collapsed to the ground.. Believing that the insiders are dead, the two thugs retreat and the other three thugs come to the bathroom door and take turns firing through the gap.. One of the bullets coming out of the gun of the Greeks, who brutally fired at unarmed, unprotected and innocent people, first shatters the knee of his daughter Işıl, then enters through one leg of Ayşe Hanım and leaves the other. A large wound opens on Ayşe’s foot.. Mürüvet and her children, who hid in the bathroom with Granny Feride, were martyred, while Ayşe Hanım, her daughter Işıl and Növber, along with Hasan Yusuf Gudum, were seriously injured..
Comments from the British Newspaper
Two reporters of the British newspaper Daily Express Rene and Daniel When they entered Nicosia’s house numbered 2, Irfan bey street in Kumsal neighborhood, they saw the terrible sights they saw. they reflected in their newspaper as follows:. A mother’s hair and her right arm wrapped around her children, bloody fingers… She still presses her children to her heart, to her heart.. There was another woman in the other corner of the bathroom.. His eyes are big, he’s the only one that moves.. He got a bullet to the waist and feet. Next to him is a two-year-old boy. They shot him in the feet too. But with a pacifier in her mouth, she smiles. On the ceiling… Meat blood clots hang down. i can’t write. I do not see the keys of the typewriter, the locations of the letters… ”
The image of the bodies in the bathtub, which was leaked to the world press with great difficulty, has become a symbol of the persecution of the Turkish Cypriots. The house where this brutal event took place today welcomes its visitors as the Museum of Barbarism in Nicosia.
MUSEUM OF BARBARITY
The museum of barbarism is an example museum established to show those who call Turks ‘barbarians’, ‘Who is a barbarian?’ This place, whose rooms and walls were riddled with 33 bullets from machine guns on December 24, 1963, is neither a military unit, a headquarters nor a police station.. This is the home of a humble family. Witnessing the Greek massacres of 1963-1964 in Cyprus, this house was converted into a museum on December 1, 1966, as it bears the traces of a bloody massacre in our recent history.. The Museum of Barbarism was repaired and reorganized in 1975 by the Directorate of Antiquities and Museums, which was established right after the 1974 Peace Operation.. Since the Museum of Barbarism and the interior exhibition area, which were expropriated by the decision of the Council of Ministers in 1980, were worn out over time, both the building and the exhibition were reopened with an official ceremony on 14.02.2000.
The Museum of Barbarism is located on Second İrfan Bey Street in the Kumsal District of the Capital Nicosia.. The museum is actually a cute house with a single storey, garden and just around the corner.. Nicosia Municipality later changed the name of this street to “Mürüvvet İlhan Sokak”, wife of Nihat İlhan.. Inside the Museum of Barbarism, which looks like a normal house from the outside, there are countless traces of lead surrounded by black squares on the walls.. The black and white photographs on the walls of the barbarism museum reflect the martyrdom of our Cypriot compatriots, regardless of men, women, young people or old people, as a result of the massacres of the Greeks on December 21, 1963, and the destruction of their houses and villages.
What’s in the Museum of Barbarism?
The inscription “December 1963” with red paint on the right of the entrance through the door in the Museum of Barbarism, with the motif of blood flowing down from the ceiling to the human stands out. The traces of bullets formed as a result of the guns thrown in the raid are enclosed in a black frame on the ceiling and walls.. In a room, the news published in the foreign press about the “Greek Massacres” of 1963-1964 are exhibited.. Turks martyred in another room, destroyed cultural heritage, belongings of Mürüvvet İlhan and her children in another room, photographs reflecting the mass murders of our cognates who were martyred in the other room, photographs of destroyed Turkish villages, in another room the difficult conditions of our compatriots who had to migrate from their homes photographs reflecting the struggle for life under the roof, pictures of the martyrs and injured people in this house, the list of the 1963-1968 martyrs and the President of the Republic, Mr.. Rauf R. Denktaş’s written opinions on the subject are exhibited. When you reach the bathroom, you will feel the extent of the brutality, and three bloody bathrobes surrounded by glass will make you experience that day…
In the garden of the Museum of Barbarism, a monument was built in memory of 11 Turkish Cypriots who were martyred in the “Beach Massacre” in the same year.. “Kumsal Martyrs Monument” is also visited by those who come to visit this house.. There are also photographs of martyrs on the monument.. This monument was built with the contributions of “Martyr Families and Disabled Veterans Association”.. The names of the Beach Martyrs in this monument in the garden of the Barbarism Museum; Written as Hakan İlhan, Kursi İlhan, Murat İlhan, Mürüvvet İlhan, Feride Hasan, Erdoğan Rifat, Tuncer Hasan, Mustafa Hasan, Mustafa Mehmet, Muhip Hüseyin and Aziz Güner. This museum is the bloody traces of the murders committed by the Greeks in our recent history of Cyprus.
HOW TO GET TO THE BARBARY MUSEUM?
The Museum of Barbarism is located on Mürevvet İlhan Sokak, Kumsal District of the Capital Nicosia. To go to the museum, when you enter from the Girne side and turn right from the Ministries lights towards the hotel called Golden Tulip, you will see a cute house with a garden on the left, on Dereboyu Street.. This house is the Museum of Barbarism, which was later turned into a museum.
Museum of barbarism ENTRANCE FEE AND VISITING HOURS
Barbarism museum visiting hours differ in summer and winter periods.. During the summer period, between 08:00-15:30 except Thursdays; Visiting hours between 08:00-13:00 and 14:00-18:00 on Thursdays are between 08:00-15:30 except on Thursdays during the winter period; It is open to visitors between 08:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00 on Thursdays.. Entrance to the museum is free.
There is a notebook where visitors can write their feelings while leaving the museum.. You will see the pages soaked with tears in this notebook…
We hope to see the Museum of Barbarism as soon as possible, which was the scene of an inhumane massacre and reflects the traces of a massacre in our recent history.
Barbarism Museum, the Blue Mansion and Kapalı Maraş are among the places that tourists visit.
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