Filiz Hilmi
INTERVIWE DATE:
July 24, 2023
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Interviewer:
Theo Xenophontos
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language:
English

Speaker Background:

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INTERVIEW LOCATION:
Woodbridge, ON
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Interview Summary:

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Filiz Hilmi

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Interview Details
Categories and Themes
Content
Media
Participants
Filiz Hilmi
Intervieweer(s)
Theo Xenophontos
Date and Location
July 24, 2023
Woodbridge, ON
Languages
English
Permalink
Project
Film as Mediator: Cultivating a Cypriot Canadian Community Audiovisual Media Archive
Reference ID
FAMREF014
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Categories
Associational Life
Canadian Society
Culture and Tradition
Working Life
Education
Historical Events
Migration
Rites
Tags
Cypriot Canadian Identity
Cypriot Intercommunal Violence
Cyprus 1974
Dance
Discrimination
Engagement
English Learning
Funeral
Marriage
Military Service
Music
Pre-1974 Migration
Religion
Traditions
Decades Referenced
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Locations Referenced
Cyprus; Agios Nikolaos (Paphos District); Paphos; Nicosia; Ercan International Airport; Northern Cyprus; Canada; York, Ontario; Rexdale; T.L. Kennedy Secondary School; Mississauga; Bronte Creek; Brampton; Turkey; Istanbul; Greece
Occupation(s)
Parents Occupation(s)
Her father served in the Turkish Cypriot military as a teenager.
Names Referenced
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; Makarios III; Deren Hasip

[00:00:03] Biographical and familial background

[00:01:27] Her parents living among Greek Cypriots

[00:04:06] Her parents migrating to Canada due to tensions

[00:10:10] Similarities between Turkish and Greek Cypriots

[00:15:46] Assimilation versus maintaining Cypriot heritage

[00:23:05] Similarities between the Cypriot dialects

[00:28:26] 1974 and Turkey's control over the north

[00:34:01] Communication with family in Cyprus

[00:36:35] Involvement with Turkish Cypriot groups in Canada

[00:41:34] Audiovisual documentation

[00:42:53] Secular nature of Turkish Cypriot life

[00:45:33] Importance of social media and cuisine

[00:49:24] Generational differences, re: ethnic conflict

[00:56:29] Connection with Cypriot heritage

[00:59:57] Hopes for the future of Cyprus

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