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Once Upon a Time in Cyprus English subtitles link not watched it yet but first bit plays ok
Running time 2 hours 25 mins enjoy

https://youtu.be/OLpCa1wjPXQ

wanderer, Many thanks for the link!

There are 3 episodes with subtitles now apparently!!!

I've watched it First 20 minutes a bit laboured but don't be deceived
DON'T Watch before bed
Dipper thanks Episode 2 link below


https://youtu.be/Rn16JTsKVHw

Watched the first episode translation needs work but thought it was pretty close to the truth for a change.

terry2366 wrote: ↑

Sat 10 Apr 2021 8:08 pm

Watched the first episode translation needs work but thought it was pretty close to the truth for a change.

Yes, the translation is very basic and obviously done using something like Google Translate... it makes little attempt to make sense of idiomatic dialogue.

Although it is a drama the essence of the screenplay is closely based on historical facts.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... 13we45.htm

Yes Groucho it closely resembles stories and official logs I remember as we arrived around four weeks after the events occurred
Sad times neighbour turning on neighbour.

terry2366 wrote: ↑

Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:48 am

Yes Groucho it closely resembles stories and official logs I remember as we arrived around four weeks after the events occurred
Sad times neighbour turning on neighbour.

Turning on their own too... Madness instigated by greed, jealousy and racism with the connivance of a so-called Christian leader.

Groucho wrote: ↑

Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:17 am

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... 13we45.htm

Barbaric, yet everyone but Turkey had turned a blind eye.
To this day no one has been on trial for murder.
And, why the embargoes?

Just makes no sense to me.

Soner wrote: ↑

Sun 11 Apr 2021 9:50 am

Groucho wrote: ↑

Sun 11 Apr 2021 8:17 am

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... 13we45.htm

Barbaric, yet everyone but Turkey had turned a blind eye.
To this day no one has been on trial for murder.
And, why the embargoes?

Just makes no sense to me.

That's because your family are not Greek and don't have blood on their hands....

Anybody out there got the link to Episode three with subtitles yet please????

Waddo
It says Episode 3 is out on Thursday Television 8:30pm I will look and post as soon as it pops up

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https://youtu.be/z6d3bJUGlH0?list=TLPQM ... JA64RW3-2A

wanderer, many thanks indeed.

I'm looking forward to it too!!!

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ENJOY

Great, just finished 2

Mina Sampson, daughter of Nicos Sampson, who had been installed as president after the July 1974 coup that preceded Turkey’s invasion, said she has been receiving hundreds of threats from people in the north and Turkey who linked her with the way her father is being portrayed in the Turkish TV drama Once Upon a Time in Cyprus.

The candidate MP told Sigma TV that she has reported the threats to the police.

She said that people threaten her and her children’s physical integrity. Some of the messages she received said she would be found dumped in the sea.

Sampson said these threats started the first day the propaganda TV series was aired, “due to the history my name bears.”

She also called on the state to do something to stop this distortion of events that tarnishes the Eoka struggle.

“These young people they were hanged, and they are presenting them as cold-blooded murderers of Turkish Cypriots,” Sampson said. She was referring to the Eoka fighters who were hanged by the British colonial authorities. Sampson said that no Turkish Cypriots were killed during the 1955-1959 Eoka struggle.

She also said she saw no political party take a stand about this drama series that is being aired in 85 countries. She added that it is based on the way these events are narrated that Turkey and the regime in the north claim that there can be no peaceful solution with the Greek Cypriots.

The series has stirred reactions on both sides of the divide over the one-sided way it represents the events. The series premiere was aired on April 1, which coincided with Eoka’s campaign to end British colonial rule over the island, which began on April 1, 1955.

Disy stressed its full support to Sampson against the threats she has been receiving. “We condemn such actions, and practices from wherever they come from,” the party said.

Nicos Samson was a cold blooded murderer, but that is not his daughters fault so she should not be receiving these threats.

Raises her profile with the racist section of the electorate real dog whistle article

"Sampson said that no Turkish Cypriots were killed during the 1955-1959 Eoka struggle"

That typifies the GC version of history, always the victim...

Many thanks yet again Wanderer!!! Watch E3 last night and the plot thickens, can't wait for No 4, thanks again.

What is the link to watch episode 3 with English subtitles please x

https://youtu.be/O4SoFjGw-9k

Here it is

Thank you, I’ve just watched it, x

Mina Sampson very clearly needs to do more homework ... The fact that such an obvious lie damages her credibility is hopefully not lost on the wider community. Given that even Greek Cypriots on the whole don't agree with such a preposterous falsehood and many documented witness statements from the Greek Cypriot side don't agree with this outrageous attempt to whitewash history. In fact I'd go as far as to say it's the equivalent travesty as holocaust denial.

Just watched episode 3 interesting seeing sights of the North like Mavi Kosh Barnabus monastry and the back streets and Arch in Lefkosa
The story so far 18-25thDecember I keep looking for when more episodes are released

Just read this on Wickapedia
It is a tragic irony that many of the evacuated villages were resettled by their original Turkish Cypriot residents when, in 1974, the Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled due to the Turkish invasion/intervention.

https://www.militaryhistories.co.uk/greenline/movement

Uncle Sam or the big Satan

The exhausting and dangerous work of mediation, village by village, pioneered since Christmas by the British Army will have to be continued by the International force. It may never be possible to calculate the number of lives that have been saved by intrepid teams of British, Greek and Turkish officers preaching common sense and reason to villagers tortured by fear of their neighbours. The careful quenching of each individual flicker of hatred is a job that must go on."

Commander Packard (British army) was ever conscious of a meeting he had with George Ball, the US Under Secretary of State, in the early days of the TPO.(Three Party Operation GC TC British Army patrols)
Following a full day touring with the diplomat and explaining the communal re-engagements that had taken place, George Ball told him sympathetically.......

"But you've got it wrong son. Hasn't anyone told you that our target here is for partition?"

Interesting that Major Macey was a participant in last nights episode plus the UN were 3 months later in real time.

A trailer for Episode 4
There is an episode 4 but when it plays its Brigdetown Netflix series I'll keep my eyes peeled for the full episode