^#smrgSAHAF Cyprus International Symposium on Her Past and Present (Gazi Mağusa, October 29 November 1, 1991) - 1994

The Yesterday and Today of Cyprus, International Symposium has been arranged in Cyprus between 28th October, and 2nd November 1991 in support of the president of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Rauf Denktaş by Gazi Mağusa East Mediterranean University and Turkish Republic Van Yüzüncü Yıl University to demonstrate the specialities of Cyprus and thus to enlighten the future about Cyprus which is geographically a natural extension of Anatolia and historically an unseparable part of the Turkish being for five hundred years with her people, Culture and arts.

To the symposium from Cyprus, Turkey, Azerbeijan, Uzbekistan, Austria and Italia 44 scientists, press members, writers and local authorities have been invited, among these Prof. Dr. Metin Özbek, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Saray, Prof. Dr. Feride Mehmedova, Dr. Sara Balabey kızı Aşurbeyli, Prof. Dr. Augusto Sinegra and Prof. Dr. Maria Antonia, Dr. Casola Fontetti could not attend due to their excuses.

The opening was held in Lefkoşe in Atatürk Culture Centre after the celebrations of the 68th year of the foundation of the Turkish Republic and ended with seeing the exhibition consisted of the papers, issues and photographs of the Turks massacred by the Armenians and Byzantines in Cyprus, Anatolia and Caucasia.

The symposium has been performed within 3 days in 4 sessions in Gazi Mağusa in the Blue Saloon of the Eastern Mediterranean University and ended with an Evaluation Session.

The following day the Gathered Graves of the Turks who had been cruelly massacred by the Byzantines and the Turkish Martyrdoms of the people who had got killed during the Peace Operation, were visited.

The Symposium will have reached its purpose when the results of the Symposium are published in two books, one in English the other in Turkish as decided by the Arrangement Committee, with which it is once more confirmed that in Cyprus, as in Caucasia and Anatolia, the people who were genocided and tried to be dispatched off from their own countries, in fact, were the Turkish people. - Prof. Dr. Azmi SÜSLÜ, Coordinator of the Arrangement Committee (From Summary)