ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the transnational trajectory of the image of the assassinated left-wing Cypriot comrades Dervis Ali Kavazoglu and Kostas Mishaoulis between Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece. It examines, in three different time periods, the effects of the different understandings of violence that the image exuded and the different uses of this image. The chapter focuses on the use of the image by a solidarity association set up in Greece, which was composed of Greek left-wingers and Turkish asylum seekers who had escaped the 1980s' persecutions of the Turkish Junta. It explores the successes and failures of using transnational memories of violence as an alternative means of bonding and performing the politics of friendship. The chapter draws from post-structuralist political theory and discourse analysis to explain how different kinds of discourses and practices are linked in social and political life, extending from the representational elements of an image to the collective performance of the messages that an image can exude.
