Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar expressed deep outrage at the decision of the Netflix streaming service to release the series “Famagusta,” dedicated to the events of the summer of 1974 during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
The series, which is a dramatic adaptation of those events, follows a family trying to find a missing child.
Tatar called on Netflix to reconsider its decision, saying the series distorts historical facts. According to him, in 1974, the Turkish army carried out a “peacekeeping operation”, the purpose of which was to save the Turkish Cypriots. In an interview with CNN Turk, he emphasized that “the Cyprus issue did not begin in 1974” and that “the peacekeeping operation saved the Turkish Cypriots from genocide.”
“Both Turks and Greeks around the world know that the bloodshed in Cyprus stopped with the start of the peacekeeping operation in 1974. After 50 years, peace continues in this difficult region. The whole world knows that the Turks of Cyprus were murdered,” Tatar said.
He also added that Turkish Cypriots should create their own series to convey the truth about the conflict to the world: “We must show the truth about the problem through our own series.”
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesman Omer Celik also spoke out against the Famagusta series, expressing concern that it "distorts the 1974 peacekeeping operation in Cyprus and promotes the Greek position."
“We cannot allow the intervention that brought peace and brought justice to become the target of Greek propaganda. The peace operation in Cyprus, the heroic Turkish soldier, peace and justice cannot be the target of this series,” Celik wrote on the social network X.
Source: cyprus-mail.com
