The world he lost; a Kyrenian looks back

It is difficult to overstate the place Kyrenia has occupied in my father’s life. The town retains, as it has for many of its displaced inhabitants, a magnetic hold over the imagination.

For my father, it was the setting to an idyllic childhood which had been abruptly cut off. From a young age, I was instilled with the knowledge that ours was a family living in exile....