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The Turkish Ministry of Defense on Saturday released the third video in a series covering the massacres committed by the terrorist organization 'EOKA' (Greek Cypriot) against Turkish Cypriots.

The ministry said in a post on the Turkish social platform 'In Social' that "the massacres of the Greek Cypriot terrorist organization EOKA against Turkish Cypriots were so brutal that the highest-ranking military official of the United Nations at that time, after witnessing the brutal killing of small children, said: 'I have never seen such atrocities before.'"

The ministry added, saying: 'We will not forget what Turkish Cypriots endured, and we will not allow it to be forgotten.'

The new video includes testimonies recounting how the organization collectively killed Turkish Cypriot children of school age.

On December 21, 1963, armed men of the terrorist EOKA launched a series of attacks targeting Turkish Cypriots, resulting in the deaths of 364 people and the evacuation of 103 villages with a Turkish Muslim majority on the island.

This day is known in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as 'Bloody Christmas' in memory of events aimed at killing and displacing Muslims from the island of Cyprus.

The terrorist organization EOKA was founded in the mid-1950s by the Greek officer of Greek Cypriot origin, Georgios Grivas, with the aim of ending British colonial rule in Cyprus and uniting the island with Greece through military operations.

After the end of British administration and the declaration of the 'Republic of Cyprus', the organization sought to commit numerous mass atrocities aimed at expelling Turkish Cypriots from the new state, and also killed Greek Cypriots who did not agree with its vision.