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Article: Plight of the Turkish Cypriots
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- September 3, 2001
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Sarban Singh
New Straits Times
09-03-2001
Plight of the Turkish Cypriots
Byline: Sarban Singh
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Focus
Type: Chronology
Memo: (STF) - On a tour of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Sarban Singh and fellow journalists learn first-hand the violent history of the country.
IF Fahriye was alive today, she would have been 27. She was barely three months old on Aug 14, 1974, when her village in Sandallar, which is now in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), was plundered by marauding Greek Cypriots.
On that fateful day, she perished together with her siblings, mother and 85 other Turkish Cypriots who were gunned down in cold blood by their ...