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Cyprus Memorial Cemetery in Silifke

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Cyprus Memorial Cemetery in Silifke

The Cyprus Memorial Forest (Turkish: Kıbrıs Hatura Ormanı), a.k.a. Cyprus Memorial Cemetery (Turkish: Kıbrıs Şehitliği), is a memorial forest including a symbolic military cemetery and an open-air museum dedicated to the Turkish servicemen killed in action during the 1974 Turkish military invasion o

f Cyprus. Established in 1976, it is located at Silifke district of Mersin Province in southern Turkey. The memorial place is in a pine woods covering 9 ha (22 acres) at Çamdüzü, 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Silifke on the provincial road 33-58 between Silifke and Gülnar just west of State road D715. Following the 1974 Cypriot coup d'état, Turkey, under the guise of fearing an intercommunal fighting and killing, intervened . In 1976, a symbolic cemetery was established in commemoration of 454 Turkish army servicemen. A tree was planted next to each symbolic grave. A monument of Atatürk is erected in the middle of s ceremonial square surrounded by the symbolic graves. Another monument is dedicated to the fallen 220 warriors of the Turkish-Cypriot resistance. There is also a museum at the military memorial, in which weapons like rifles, pistols and ammunition are exhibited. Some heavy military equipment...

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