The Street Names of Mouttalos

A town council, a cabinet decree and one street sign, in the old Turkish Cypriot quarter of Paphos.

Local name: Μούτταλλος

Collection: Upper Town · Cyprus · Open in OpenStreetMap

Minaret above a lane of the old quarter · Arnold Schott, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Many people who lost their homes in the north of Cyprus in 1974 have spent fifty years living on streets named after Turkish and Turkish Cypriot figures. Until then, this was the Turkish Cypriot quarter of Paphos. Its streets honoured the poet Namik Kemal, the Turkish president Ismet Inonu, and Doctor Fazil Kucuk, the first vice president of the Republic of Cyprus. One was named after Kemal Ataturk.

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Visiting

Cami Kebir stands in the Mouttalos quarter, about five minutes' walk south of Mouttalos Square along Namik Kemal Street. View it from outside: sources disagree on whether it is open, and we could not confirm any opening hours. Be quiet in the lanes, as people live here.