Larnaca Missing Bus Monument inaugurated

The Missing Bus Monument, built in memory of the 11 martyrs killed in Larnaca in 1964, was inaugurated with a ceremony.

11 Turkish Cypriots, who left their homes from Larnaca by a bus to work at the British Bases in Dhekelia on May 13, 1964, were abducted from the bus by Greek Cypriot police officers, and after being shot, they were thrown into a well around the Greek Cypriot village of Oroklini, near Larnaca.

In 2007, as a result of the efforts of the Committee on Missing Persons, their remains were found but the bus is still missing.

The personal belongings of the martyrs found when they were taken out from the well where they were thrown after being brutally murdered, will also be exhibited in the museum built at the monument.

President Ersin Tatar, Speaker of the TRNC Assembly Zorlu Töre, Prime Minister Ünal Üstel, Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Lefkoşa, Metin Feyzioğlu, Ministers, MPs, military officials, guests from Azerbaijan and Türkiye and the citizens attended the ceremony.

Source: TRNC Public Information Office