“Turtuk” The village that Lost its Country in 1971
War is sometimes necessary but it costs hundreds of lives. Around 52 years ago people of Turtuk village slept in Pakistan but woke up as Indians. As surprising as it sounds, it's a historical fact.
Turtuk was a border region in Pakistan until 1971. One fine day, it became a part of India. The unsettling effects of this switch are still visible. Shyok, which literally means ‘river of death,’ proves one in the dark night of 1971.
On 14 December 1971, when the Indian Army captured this village, Turtuk, from Pakistan. At the edge of Baltistan, enclosed by the Karakoram mountain range with the Shyok flowing in the valley below, Turtuk was one of four villages captured by Indian forces.
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