Gruesome murder shocks Kyrenia

AN 82-YEAR-OLD Turkish Cypriot woman resident in Kyrenia was raped and brutally murdered on Sunday, Turkish Cypriot papers reported yesterday.

According to the papers, Ulviye Ahmet, who lived 50 to 60 metres from Kyrenia harbour, was stabbed and had her head split open by unknown assailants. The elderly woman was raped before her death and police also found signs that she had been tortured, the papers reported.

Nothing was stolen from the victim’s home, ‘police’ reportedly said.

The papers said ‘police’ had made three arrests in connection with the killing. All three suspects were reported to be Turkish nationals.

Kibris also carried a story about a young student nurse being raped by two masked assailants. The young girl from occupied Famagusta, was returning to a nurse’s hostel in Nicosia at around 7.30pm on Monday when she was abducted by two men wearing stockings on their heads, Kibris reported.

The nurse was then driven to a beach near Kyrenia where she was raped by her two attackers before being abandoned in an unconscious state, the paper stated. The girl apparently contacted ‘police’ by phone when she came to.

Kibris said ‘police’ had launched a man-hunt for the two masked rapists.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.