The Cyprus war rapes shrouded in a wall of silence

Countless women never had children, never married, many were ‘shipped off’ abroad for an abortion or to send the secret far away to a different country

It took close to half a century for Cypriots to finally begin speaking out about one of the worst horrors that unfolded after the invasion in 1974: the rapes.

Many have taken their secret to the grave. In a society that coated survivors with shame, the stories of what truly happened to Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have been shrouded in a wall of silence.