![]() ![]() ![]() Fittingly, the exhibit is just a few meters (yards) away from a de facto border hewn during those days of turmoil. “I think it was my way of keeping calm,” said Butler-Sloss, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons, but frequently returns to Cyprus to visit her mother.Īfter years at the bottom of a drawer, the 45 pages of exercise book are now on display in Nicosia. “I’m still mystified as to why I started writing it,” Butler-Sloss, born on the island of Armenian and British parents, told Reuters. The telephone went dead.īutler-Sloss started her diary the day Greek Cypriot army tanks rolled into the streets of Nicosia.įorty years on, and defying the best efforts of many mediators, this east Mediterranean island remains partitioned among its Greek and Turkish Cypriot populations, with Nicosia remaining the last divided capital in Europe. Her mother tried to go outside, a bullet whizzed past, and then she, her mother and her brother spent the next few hours huddled in the kitchen. Only me, mam and Robert,” she wrote in neat script. REUTERS/Neil HallĪged 13, she started to document a defining moment in one of the world’s most intractable conflicts - a coup against a democratically elected government, engineered by Greece’s military junta, triggering a Turkish invasion five days later. A view shows the city across Turkish and Greek Cypriot-controlled areas and the United Nations (U.N.) buffer zone in central Nicosia March 12, 2014.
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