Turkish Cypriots: The Ghosts of Europe
November 18, 2012
The status of Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus continues to be ignored both within the country and in Europe as a whole
It was while I was a teenager attending school in east London when I became aware of the fact that I was a member of a nameless community. I happened to come across my class register left open on my teacher’s desk and began to read through it, noticing a section for ethnicity had been included beside each name. The ethnicity section beside my name, however, was left blank, as was the case with all the other Turkish Cypriot students in my class.
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