ATAA to Screen Award-winning Cyprus Missing Persons Documentary,”The Vanished Bus”
ATAA is pleased to announce the screening of the award-winning Turkish Cypriot documentary, “The Vanished Bus” (Kayıp Otobüs), at the Turkish House in Dupont Circle on Friday, December 5, 2008, 7pm.
“Kayıp Otobüs” investigates the 1964 kidnapping and massacre of 40 Turkish Cypriot workers, whose lives came to a violent end at the hands of Greek Cypriot militias bent on creating an ethnically and religiously homogenous Greek Christian Orthodox island united with Greece. Forty years after the Missing Persons saga began, the remains of the 40 workers were discovered in a mass grave.
Producer Fevzi Tanpinar will make opening remarks and answer questions. “Kayıp Otobüs” was successfully shown by the United Nations in a Buffer Zone Event in Nicosia, and by the Council of Europe, which houses the European Court of Human Rights. The documentary is a finalist in the Boston Film Festival, which is being held this week.
Please join us at the ATAA Turkish House, located at 1526 18th Street, NW, Washington DC. Refreshments will be served.