@article{2020,title={Eyewitnesses of Veterans from Urfa in Cyprus Peace Operation},abstractNode={Urfa, which is one of the cities of the Anatolian geography with its historical heritage, religious values and cultural texture, maintained its importance throughout human history. Not only in the distant past, but also in recent history, the city has gained great success during the National Struggle. In the light of this success, on 6 December 1984, it was named as "Şanlıurfa" and on 11 April 2016 it was awarded the "Independence Medal". National Struggle period, not only in Urfa, Turkey has participated in the Korean War and Peace Operation in Cyprus and labor that has been one of the city sending soldiers to the front. Such that the soldiers which joined cyprus peace operation from Urfa, 8 of them gained martyr and the 630 of them gained warrier for the faith. In this work, the impression of the operation of the Urfans soldiers who took the title of "Warriors Gazi" due to the heroism they showed in Cyprus Peace Operation will be discussed. The impressions of ghazies about this operation and the events in island they come across one-to-one are matter getting to be issues in this labour. Oral interviews were used as a source in the study. According to the findings obtained from the various sources in the literature, it was determined that some of the Urfalians wariors participated voluntarily in the operation and that the veterans suffered various troubles due to lack of subsistence during this operation. It's also determined that war veterans arrived to island, were come across tough combats and after these combats they were injured from various parts of their bodies. Expect from these ıt's determined that there were war veterans witnessed to death of their army friends.},author={Mehmet KISAK},year={2020},journal={Turkish Studies - Historical Analysis}}