Trailer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cVmygeknvNpp3FJCVyskOBDdzdFIL3Jj/view
The official trailer for DISPLACED: A Turkish Cypriot Story is out now, ahead of the documentary’s full release on 1 August 2026.
Since its announcement, the response has been overwhelming. We have been deeply moved by the number of newspapers, broadcasters and online outlets – across Northern Cyprus, Türkiye and the United Kingdom – who have reported on the film and helped bring this story to their readers and viewers. We are equally grateful to the thousands of people who have shared, posted and spoken about DISPLACED across social media. These testimonies have waited a long time to be heard, and that so many chose to give them a platform means a great deal – to us, and far more importantly, to the people who told them. Thank you.
DISPLACED: A Turkish Cypriot Story traces the experiences of Turkish Cypriots across three of the most turbulent decades in the island’s history – from the 1950s, through the 1960s, and up to 1974 and its aftermath. Told entirely through the testimony of those who lived it, the film gives voice to a generation who witnessed these events first-hand and are recounting them, in many cases, while they still can.
The documentary follows a thread of displacement, loss and endurance – of homes abandoned, villages burned, and livelihoods destroyed. It moves through the years of EOKA, the events of Bloody Christmas in December 1963, the Larnaca Missing Bus, the siege of Erenköy, and the attacks on communities such as Geçitkale and Boğaziçi. It continues through 1974 and the massacres at Taşkent, and at Muratağa, Sandallar and Atlılar, before closing on the population exchange agreement of 1975 that reshaped the island into the one we know today.
At its heart, DISPLACED is a film about people – about what was lost, what was survived, and what must never be forgotten.
The interviewees
The documentary features first-hand testimony from twelve Turkish Cypriots, each named here with their birthplace:
- Ersoy Taluğ — Taşkent (Tochni)
- Talat Onar — Erenköy (Kokkina)
- Vedat Esendağ — Poli (Polis)
- Kemal Ahmet — Binatlı (Polemidia)
- İsmail Bozkurt — Boğaziçi (Lapathos)
- Oğuz Serbaş — Erenköy (Kokkina)
- Taner Çuvalcıoğlu — Lefkoşa (Nicosia)
- Ayten Salih Berkalp — Gazimağusa (Famagusta)
- Beha Hüseyin Köprülü — Leymosun (Limassol)
- Fatma Taşkan — Larnaka (Larnaca)
- Şafak Nihat — Muratağa (Maratha)
- Vahibe Özkasırga — Erenköy (Kokkina)
Release
DISPLACED: A Turkish Cypriot Story is supported by the Freedom and Fairness for Northern Cyprus campaign. It will be released on 1 August 2026 and will be available to watch on the campaign’s YouTube channel.