Famagusta

Great series based on true events and how the island was divided by an invasion and the aftermath that still haunt the people that are waiting for redemption and reunification free from foreign policies and live peacefully according to UN resolutions at their homeland and securing a safe and prosperous future for their children. This real life drama will touch all hearts and make you cry as it depicts war, family ties, injustice, redemption, love, honour, faith, pride, strength, memories and more. Great performance from all actors revealing deep rooted drama based on true events and characters.

Was really looking forward to watching this as the story is intriguing with an interesting geo-political dynamic. However, despite well thought out cinematography and better than average acting, Famagusta is unfortunately let down by incredible historical and factual inaccuracies.

The timeline seems to start in 1974 when actual troubles between the two communities (Greek and Turkish Cypriots) and the guarantor powers (Turkey, Greece and the UK) began more than a decade earlier - all vital to the story and provides invaluable context but this seems to have been glanced over. The Greek invasion, ENOSIS and the AKRITAS plan have been glorified and the Turkish intervention demonised - all incorrect.

It's quite apparent that the producers and directors were out to paint a very specific, loaded picture of what is generally considered to be a 'brainwashed' view of historical fact. A shame really, had potential.

The truth events on what happened to Cyprus in 1974 with the illegal and violent turkish invasion.

History canl not change and if u visit Cyprus you will see that whole Cyprus was and is greek.

With the illegal invasion half a century ago, and the misleading turkish tourist agents or those agents who are funded and promoted to miseducate tourists and visitors.

Unfortunately many of the visitors dont care about history at all but at least some programs must show the truth out of it and never stop fighting against the wrong and misleading works of the turkish propaganda. So watch to get an idea, even without the vandalism of the churches.

Voting/History issues:

1. The truth hurts, and although it is just a TV series ...the Turk trolls are hard at work to downvote it.

2. In 1974 the simple truth is Turkey invaded Cyprus and occupied roughly 30% of the island. There was no peace operation and the story is just as simple... repeating itself throughout the centuries. The big bad neighborhood bully doing what he does best.. attack when the little guy is down.

3. Turkey has traditionally caused problems for it's neighboring countries, and 'wishes' to reinstate the Ottoman Empire... Get a grip already.. It's down and and it ain't coming back up...

Series Review: It describes, only superficially at times, the ongoing problem with dead/missing relatives as a fallout of the Turkish invasion in 1974. It depicts pain and suffering but sometimes not so well... Directing and acting are sufficient but maybe I'm used to Hollywood productions and I'm too critical.

Related material: To see the barbaric extreme right wing Turkish invaders take the lives of two more Greek Cypriot with ease and no remorse...

Search on YouTube "Memorial for Tassos Issac and Solomos Solomou, murdered by the Turkish government in August 1996" At 0:50 and at 1:10.

Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus and the ensuing ethnic cleansing are crimes against humanity unreservedly condemned by the United Nations, the US, and the EU, yet this tragedy remains widely unknown.

FAMAGUSTA, named after the city infamously and mercilessly turned into a ghost-town by the Turkish invasion forces, painstakingly recreates the circumstances, human toll, and pure barbarity of the Turkish invasion, based on real-life testimony of victims and their families. It was the Ukraine of its time, unspeakable brutality that shocked the world.

Turkey, a guarantor power of the territorial integrity of Cyprus under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, instead tore it apart and savaged its people. An atrocious crime to this day unpunished, but vividly brought to life by FAMAGUSTA.