Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

We should be receiving copies of Soner's excellent book: The Green Line: Holiday in a War Zone at BEST SELLER BOOK STORE...KARAKUM during the first week of May. I'll post as soon as they arrive. If anyone would like to reserve a copy please email: mcbestseller@hotmail.co.uk
or Tel: 0533 824 8373. Thanks.
Margot
Best Seller Bookstore
Metform Plaza (next to Lemar Supermarket, Karakum)
Karakum
Open 10am to 5pm Mon to Friday
Opean 10am to 4pm Saturdays

excellent book well worth a read

if you havnt got a copy you are definately missing out

Thanks for the feedback karakum5c, glad you enjoyed it.

I have ordered a copy. I am looking forward to reading it having seen all the good reviews

Soner - I didn't realise you were the author of this book - amazing achievement - it must have been painful and cathartic to write. I was going to get a copy anyway, but definitely will now. Best of luck with it, I'm sure it will be a huge success.


Moyra

Thanks Moyra, just received your order, will be in the post today. There were some mixed emotions when writing it, but am happy that I have put it all down on paper, even happier with the wonderful feedback from those that have read it. It makes it all the worthwhile.

By the way.....I did what you had suggested.
Regards,

cherryblossom wrote:I must get a copy, when I logged on and saw the book advertised it caught my eye immediately.

My Father, a Royal Marine, had been stationed on Troodos when he was a young teenager, indeed he received the news that I was born whilst serving in Cyprus. As a child I travelled to exotic places like India and Singapore with my Father, but he always talked about Cyprus.

He left the forces and we planned a family holiday to go back to the place he said 'fills your heart'. So for the first time I stepped of the plane to the heat and the dry smell of pine in Cyrpus in 1974. I, like my Father fell in love with Cyprus. I was only 15 full of teenage angst which Cyprus calmed . We stayed in Ambelia Village Bellapais, which I know to be still be there. The vine girths so small and thin in my photographs in 1974 are now thick with age (much like my girth now if I'm honest!). My memorier of standing on the balcony looking out over to Bellapais Abbey light up in all its grandeur, the splendour of Salamis, sitting at the top of the ampitheatre watching a spectacular sunset, deserted other than for us, really did fill my heart.

Our holiday was cut short with news reaching us of gun shots and trouble breaking out. For years my heart yearned to be able to come back. I took holidays in South Cyprus but it wasnt the same, I would stand looking over the line with longing, wanting to understand what happened.

Now I have a place here in Northern Cyprus and my heart fills complete. I just wished my Father had lived long enough to share some of it with me.

as long as he is in your heart,he sure is sharing the joy with you.

Salahi AKINCI

Ahh thanks Salahi, that was so lovely.

For Salahi
My first post, joined the Forum today.
I'm so moved by your post - written beautifully. My heart too fills each time we step off the plane at Ercan. I couldn't wait to buy a hard copy of the Greenline, so got it on my Kindle. Loved it, so moved by it and will be buying a hard copy to read again when we arrive in Kyrenia later this month. Thanks.

Welcome to the forum jfoggy.
Glad you liked the Green Line, would appeciate it so much if you left feedback on Amazon, as you had downloaded the eBook.
Thank you so much for buying it.
Regards,

Yorgozlu - Sometimes in fact most of the time you say such beautiful things, your comment above is so TC, which is why so many of us foreigners love you and your country.

Soner - Thanks for the welcome to KIBKOM forum. I will put positive feedback on Amazon, will be another first for me. Am getting a bit more confident on the old computer, two posts in a few days. Looking forward to getting a hard copy of the book though, shall read it all over again.

Thank you for the feedback, jfoggy, very kind of you.