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Sunday, March 13, 2005

The Turkish Cypriot who discovered his mother was Greek

"The Turkish Cypriot who discovered his mother was Greek
By Jean Christou

A 45-YEAR-old Turkish Cypriot who went to secure a Cypriot ID card was shocked to discover that his 75-year old Turkish Cypriot mother was in fact a Greek Cypriot living incognito in the north for 50 years.

The story, published yesterday in Politis, came to light when Dogan Mustafa went to secure an ID card and found that the details he had on his mother did not match any official records.

When he returned to the north the same day he asked his mother why there had been no record of her on the Greek Cypriot side. He said by now he had realised that there was something in his mother�s past, but he told Politis he could hardly believe what he heard next: �My real my name is Vasiliki Charalambous. I am a Greek Cypriot.�"

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