Official Digital Biography and Source Archive, prepared with İsmail Bozkurt’s approval

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Works

Yusufçuklar Oldu mu?

An early novel shaping Turkish Cypriot daily life, loss and solidarity through social memory.

Works

Evliya Çelebi’nin İzinde Kuzey Kıbrıs Seyahatnamesi

Following Evliya Çelebi, it brings the settlements and cultural layers of Northern Cyprus into a contemporary travel narrative.

Works

Kaza

A chance encounter opens a view of the Cyprus question through younger generations, folk culture and everyday language.

Works

Zirköy’den Mermertepe’ye

A personal journey from childhood landscape to public life, read alongside the transformation of Turkish Cypriot society.

Works

Beştulum’dan Zirköy’e

A memoir tracing family memory, village life and historical breaks, turning personal testimony into a social archive.

Archive documents

1990 presidential election manifesto

TTK Arşivi · İB Koleksiyonu · Fotoğraf 21

Archive documents

Diary dated 20 July 1974

TTK Arşivi · İB Koleksiyonu · Fotoğraf 22

Archive documents

A portrait facing recent history

Kıbrıs Raporu · 2024 portre kaydı

Press

Turkish Cypriot History Institution re-established

İsmail Bozkurt was elected the institution’s first president.

Interviews

EOKA, loss and social memory

A recent reflection on loss, testimony and historical awareness.

Articles

20 July: reality and consequences after fifty years

A first-hand assessment of causes and consequences on the fiftieth anniversary of 1974.

Interviews

A long interview on literature

A conversation on writing, publishing, Cypriot literature and social memory.

The official digital biography and source archive prepared with İsmail Bozkurt’s knowledge and approval. Content is sourced and subject to editorial review.

Last editorial review: 22 Ağustos 2026