By Ismail Veli Kirlapo The name Katri originates from Qadiriyyah. The Qadiri Order is one of the oldest Sufi Orders. It derives its name from Abdul Qādir Gīlānī [Turkish: Abdülkâdir Geylânî] (1077-1166), a native of the Iranian province of Mazandaran. The order is one of the most widespread of the Sufi orders in the Islamic world, and spread to Central Asia, Turkey, Cyprus, Balkans and much of East and West Africa. The Qadiriyyah have...

By Ismail Veli Kirlapo This page is dedicated to the World War 2 Lurucina veterans who volunteered to serve in the Cyprus Regiment and Cyprus Volunteer Force. The 42 men from Lurucina were part of the 19. 829 Cypriots who fought for the British and other Commonwealth nations in the World War against Nazism. The information compiled and published by Petros Papapolyviou (an academic and historian at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia),...

by Ismail Veli (Kirlapo) One of the most talked and debated issues of the people of Lurucina is: “who were our ancestors?” Even many other Cypriots not from Lurucina have made countless claims. Some insist that we were Christian Greeks who converted to save tax. Many believe our origins were Venetians who converted to save themselves from discrimination from both Greeks and Turks. Some insist we originated from Ottoman Turks. No...