The Eastern Karpas Peninsula

The large equestrian statue of Kemal Atatürk, with its slogan “Ne mutlu Türküm diyene” (How happy is the one who says I am a Turk), in the village of Yeşilköy (Agios Andronikos), on the Karpas Peninsula. Prior to 1974, Agios Andronikos had a mixed Greek- and Turkish Cypriot population, with Greek Cypriots constituting a majority. Though only a small number of the village's Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, nearly all of them left for the south of the island by mid-1976.