Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can purchase this book and roughly the price please?

I looked on Ebay/Amazon but they were charging £20+ for a papaerback.

Rosie

got a copy you can borrow,we are in karsiyaka.

Just read this. Very good read, but a bit harrowing in places. Bought it from the little newsagents on the left just past Deniz Plaza heading down the one way street. 25 TL.

If you are on the East side, go and have a look in The ozankoy bookshop,

There is usually at least one copy on the KAR stall at Lambousa market. 4tl.

This is a stunning book. The middle section is a bit hard going but necessary to fully understand what happened.

It should be compulsory reading for everybody planning to live here and for every member of the UK and EU parliaments. Then maybe, just maybe, the Turkish Cypriots might get the freedoms and respect they deserve for their many years of patient suffering.

The little bookshop mentioned by Chiangbill used to give, with every copy of the "Genocide Files", a free copy of "Death Of Friendship". It was written by Turkan Aziz who was Matron of Lefkosa hospital in 1963 when the genocide started and this has the ring of truth like no other book I have read about this period of Cyprus history.

We visited the martyr museum at Taskent the other day, reading the account of one of the few men who survived the massacre brought me to tears, again all those who are in any position of influence should have to go there and spend a little time contemplating just what did happen on this beautiful island.

Best Seller Bookstore in Karakum has this book in stock 35tl .

05338248373
mcbestseller@hotmail.co.uk

Thank you Caz for your very kind offer.

I'm hoping to tell my son where to buy one when he goes over in a weeks time.

He can read it and then leave it for me.

I did read it many years ago but I didn't actually finish it-it is an harrowing read but it should be essential reading for anyone living there full or part time.

Thanks to you all for the information.

Rosie

I've read several books about the history of Cyprus. I thought that "Cyprus" by the late Christopher Hitchens was the most accurate and authoritative but later learned he had been married to a Greek Cypriot. Martin Packard's "Getting it Wrong" is a very detailed account of the events of early 1960s, he was a British Naval Officer married to a Greek. He Quotes George Ball US Secretary of State as saying that he (Packard) had got it wrong and that America, in 1964, wanted to see the island partitioned.

Two books, "The Cyprus Conspiracy" by Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig and "The Genocide Files" are generally thought to have been funded by their respective sides and contain a lot of propaganda. Read the customer reviews about the books on Amazon, bearing in mind that some of them could be "planted" for propaganda purposes. The more one reads about the history of the island the more complicated it becomes, tit for tat and revenge for historical events seem to have been the motive behind most of Cyprus's tragedies.

Just remembered there's a book called "Oysters without Pearls" by a Turkish Cypriot lady called Segul. I have not read it, it doesn't seem to be generally available, it's supposed to be worth reading though.

Couldn't find any reviews of the Cyprus Tapes on Amazon.

Maybe they have been removed. I can imagine what some of them would have said.

Slightly off-topic, but someone once asked David Carter (Matthews) why the TCs never made any attempt to counter the GC propaganda.

He said it is sheer apathy. No Minister ever answered his emails, phone calls or letters, and when he made an appointment to speak to someone, they would not be around when he arrived for his appointment.

Under the shadow of the Embargo by Korkmaz Haktanir, Ankara May 2001 a good read, I downloaded this from the internet.

kaiserphil wrote:Couldn't find any reviews of the Cyprus Tapes on Amazon.

Maybe they have been removed. I can imagine what some of them would have said.

Slightly off-topic, but someone once asked David Carter (Matthews) why the TCs never made any attempt to counter the GC propaganda.

He said it is sheer apathy. No Minister ever answered his emails, phone calls or letters, and when he made an appointment to speak to someone, they would not be around when he arrived for his appointment.

They are here, if the links work.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyprus-Conspira ... conspiracy

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genocide-Files- ... cide+files