Famagusta

A news report from the TRNC press dated 24 October 2026.

President Ersan Tatar shared his views on the Cyprus issue during the Ere Medana program, presented by Mustafa Alkan and broadcast on Gench TV, stating that the leader of the Greek Cypriot administration, Nikos Christodoulidis, had not presented him with a written 19-point package Tatar said he could not accept the proposal to transfer Varosha to United Nations, UN administration, and to open Famagusta port to direct trade under European Union, EU control.

Whilst sharing the details of the Varosha-Famagusta port proposal, which has long been debated in the Cypriot press, Tatar also explained why he had not attended the trilateral meeting in New York.

Stating that he was opposed to negotiations being conducted merely for the sake of holding talks, Tatar said, I will not negotiate just for the sake of negotiating.

I will not keep you dragging this out at this table for another ten years.

Tatar described the proposal put forward by Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulidis in the following terms.

To transfer Varosha to United Nations administration in line with Security Council resolutions and to open Famagusta port under EU control.

That is what has been said.

Trying by a narrow interpretation of the words of the Barb to show that the coming of him whom God would manifest was premature, he denounced Baha'u'llah to the Sultan for pursuing a personal object and of fostering against the Ottoman government designs imperiling its safety.

But he simply succeeded in drawing upon himself and his brother the severity of the authorities who up to now had been friendly, and the Sultan, without seeking to know the exact truth of the case, decided once more to change the place of residence of the exiles and ordered that Baha'u'llah should be imprisoned at Akka while Sobhe Azal was to be supervised at Famagusta in Cyprus.

There it was that the poor ambitious man looked helplessly on the failure of his plans.

When Cyprus fell into the hands of the English, he recovered his liberty, but the number of his followers did not consequently increase.

binding them to a stake and others say binding them to a post to pierce them with arrows.

Let's not forget in Cyprus at Famagusta, just before the Battle of Lepanto, the Venetian knight, Mark Antonio Bragedon, was filleted alive after his nose and ears were cut off.

And then he was made to be like a mule for 11 days, carrying earthworks on his back.

Then they tied him to a post.

Is now under the hands of the Mohammedans.

And their evil and torturous ways.

Go and read the description of the fall of Famagusta.

Go see what happens to the women and children.

When the government beheld it thus it gave permission to all of them to accompany him, conveyed them from Adrianople to the seashore and thence transported them to Akkal.

Mirza Yahya they sent in like manner to Famagusta.

End of section 13.

Section 14 of A Traveller's Narrative written to illustrate the episode of the Barb.

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A Traveller's Narrative, written to illustrate the episode of the Bob, by Abdul Bahá Ab Baos, translated by Edward Grenville Brown.

Section 21 At all events, in the beginning of the year 1285 A.H., they transferred Bahá'u'lláh and all those persons who were with him from Adrianople to the prison of Akka, and Mirza Yahya to the fortress of Famagusta, and there they remained.

Note According to Nabil's chronological poem, Bahá'u'lláh and his companions left Adrianople on the 20th of Rabi'i II, A.H. 1285, August 10th, A.D. 1868, and reached Akra on the 12th of Jema'u D. I., August 31st.

When the government beheld it thus, it gave permission to all of them to accompany Him, conveyed them from Adrianople to the seashore, and thence transported them to Akkal.

Mírzá Yahya they sent in like manner to Famagusta.

End of section 13.

Section 14 of A Traveller's Narrative, written to illustrate the episode of the Báb.

A Traveller's Narrative, written to illustrate the episode of the Bob, by Abdul Baha Abbas, translated by Edward Granville Brown.

Section 21.

At all events, in the beginning of the year 1285 A.H., they transferred Baha'u'llah and all those persons who were with him from Adrianople to the prison of Akka, and Mirza Yahya to the fortress of Famagusta, and there they remained.

Note According to Nabil's chronological poem, Baha'u'llah and his companions left Adrianople on the 20th of Rabi' 2, AH 1285, August 10th, AD 1868, and reached Acre on the 12th of Jema'ud 1, August 31st.

And by 1571, the Ottomans were winning.

That summer they were finishing the conquest of Cyprus, which was held by Venice, and the last Venetian stronghold on the island was a city called Famagusta.

Its defenders held out for months against an enormous army, and when they finally surrendered in August, they were promised safe passage.

But That promise was broken.