An earlier reviewer dismissed this programme as rubbish well it is not it is a sincere telling of the genuine suffering of the Turkish Cypriots under the government of Archbishop Makarios III and the once terrorist now nationalist movement EOKA wanting to achieve the aim of unification with Athens either by ethnic cleansing, assimilation or annihilation.
The series gives the Turkish Cypriots a voice equal to that of their Greek counterparts.
The story starts in 1960 when Cyprus got its independence from Britain and follows a group of Turkish Cypriot characters well known politicians and ordinary people until the partition of 1974 - I say partition because an invasion would mean Turkey occupying the whole island including the Greek majority areas.
The only objection I have is that the road to1974 started in 1924 not 1960 I say this because colonial rule had a significant role to the partition. The Turkish Cypriot cultural institutions were abolished and impoverished the Greek institutions were given all the benefits of colonial rule.
Also during the second world war the demographics were altered the Turkish population was halved to 18% with an intake of mainland Greek refugees - and the series could of at the beginning of referenced this.
The series gives the Turkish Cypriots a voice equal to that of their Greek counterparts.
The story starts in 1960 when Cyprus got its independence from Britain and follows a group of Turkish Cypriot characters well known politicians and ordinary people until the partition of 1974 - I say partition because an invasion would mean Turkey occupying the whole island including the Greek majority areas.
The only objection I have is that the road to1974 started in 1924 not 1960 I say this because colonial rule had a significant role to the partition. The Turkish Cypriot cultural institutions were abolished and impoverished the Greek institutions were given all the benefits of colonial rule.
Also during the second world war the demographics were altered the Turkish population was halved to 18% with an intake of mainland Greek refugees - and the series could of at the beginning of referenced this.