My grandfather’s head and body lay severed for seven months before he was found

Charalambos Stylianou, a recent addition to the Cyprus Mail’s newsroom, recounts the death of his grandfather amidst the horror of the Turkish invasion launched on July 20, 1974

July 20 marks 51 years since Turkish forces invaded Cyprus in 1974, dividing the island and leaving thousands dead, missing or displaced. For one family in the Limassol district, the trauma was particularly brutal.

Among the countless Cypriots caught in the violence was my grandfather, Christodoulos Menelaou...