Erenköy Resistance in Cyprus Turkish National Struggle: An Oral History Study
Abstract
The Cyprus Republic, founded in 1960 could not be a proper and healthy way of government due to the continuous violation of the constitution by the Greek Cypriots. Cypriot Turkish students who were studying higher education in İstanbul and Ankara organized to support the resistance of Cypriot Turks against the AKRİTAS plan. This has been called Erenköy resistance in the history of Cyprus national independence of war, the most educated Cyprus Turks made a successful defence of nation. In this study, by using the oral history method, with the help of the Cyprus Turkish students which joined the Erenköy resistance, the importance of Erenköy resistance in the national independence war is investigated. By using the oral history method, the data are collected from the people who witnessed or joined the resistance in the past, which is not recorded in the written documents about incidents, people, decisions and processes. Within the concept of this study, the in-depth interviews were conducted with the people who joined the Erenköy resistance about their process of joining the resistance and returning back to Turkey for their education after the resistance. By analyzing the oral records obtained, the projections in their memories of those who participated in the resistance process were examined as a source of social memory.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Sociology
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
July 31, 2017
Submission Date
March 22, 2017
Acceptance Date
July 7, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 18 Number: 33