Abstract:

The research objective is to try to verify the significance of the Cyprus Peace Operation from the perspective Turkish society and the island citizens. For this reason, it has been tried to verify how the war veterans who participated and experienced in the operation within the framework of their experiences, their military positions in Cyprus, their contributions to the operation, the unknowns of the war, what they were mostly affected by in the war, and most importantly, the significance of the operation from the point of view of sociological, by means of oral history study. It is thought that this study, which was carried out in order to understand the conditions under which the Cyprus Peace Operation was won and what feelings it created in our veterans who participated in the operation, will aim to corroborate the consciousness of land and homeland. Within the scope of the study, a semi-structured interview form gets set and a deeply interview was conducted. Consequently, it has been demonstrated once more that the Cyprus Peace Operation is a process that must be lived not only in terms of politics and military, but also in terms of stopping the oppression of the Turks living on the island and supporting the island people to live peaceful coexistence, and that it is also a list.

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