The exhibition ‘Cyprus Realities’ prepared by the Ankara Culture, Arts and Civilization Association with the support of the Presidency of Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications was inaugurated on Tuesday.

The exhibition aims to remember the genocide and massacres that Turkish Cypriots were subjected to and to keep the memory and sensitivity about Cyprus alive.

The Cyprus Realities exhibition was opened at the Ankara Art Gallery and Auction House.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition was attended by Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Ambassador to Ankara İsmet Korukoğlu, TRT General Director Mehmet Zahid Sobacı, President of the Turkish Combatant Veterans Association Beyazıt Yumuk, Dr. Şebnem İlhan and President of the Ankara Culture, Arts and Civilization Association Eyüp Gökhan Özekin.

In his speech at the opening of the exhibition, Deputy Head of Communications of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Evren Başar stated that the massacres against Turks on the island of Cyprus, which started in the mid-1950s and lasted until the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation, took place as a bloody stain on the pages of history.

Başar emphasized that the exhibition, which was organized to keep what happened in Cyprus on the agenda of the public and to refresh the memories, became more meaningful in the days when similar tragedies were experienced in Gaza.

Başar pointed out that what happened to Turkish Cypriots in the past is happening in Palestine today.

The exhibition aims to make the tragedies from the past to the present visible, to remember the genocide and massacres that Turkish Cypriots have been subjected to, and to keep the memory and sensitivity about Cyprus alive.

The exhibition, which deals with the events that took place until the “Cyprus Peace Operation” that put an end to the atrocities in Cyprus, includes many photographs, newspapers and news notes from the period.

The exhibition, where the Cyprus issue is displayed chronologically, can be visited until November 24.