Kıbrıs Türküsü

The film focuses on the violence in Cyprus between 1957 and 1974 and the transformation of a teacher into a resistance fighter with the establishment of the Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT).

The Cyprus Ballad centers on the story of Ali, who quits his job as a teacher due to the increasing oppression on the island and joins the Turkish Resistance Organization to protect his people. The film tells the seventeen-year struggle of the Turkish Cypriots through the character of Ali, and also includes historical figures and political developments on the diplomatic side of the process. Presenting the atmosphere of the period in a chronological flow, the work deals with the transformation of an individual life into a social resistance.