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There is a close relationship between oral history and folklore. The reason for the delay in recognizing this relationship can be attributed to the unfair criticism faced by the discipline of folklore, which, like the discipline of history, shared the same fate in terms of its definition and scope, as it was debated whether it was a scientific discipline as of the 17th century. The island of Cyprus, which has been strategically important throughout history, witnessed the Cyprus Peace Operation in 1974. The memories of war and peace of the motherland and the homeland, or in other words, the stories of happiness and misfortune of our nation, have been largely recorded in oral history. In this era of the 21st century, where we are encountering brand-new technologies, the transition of the vast material collected through oral history to the online, digital life of the metaverse, which we will soon enter, has become a necessity of our time.
This study examines how the oral history products of the Cyprus Peace Operation can be defined as Cultural Metaverses, which will be structured as metaverse platforms, and the methods by which these platforms can be implemented. The aim of this study is to design applications that will be implemented to incorporate new technologies into our national life, to visualize our nation's oral history using methods and techniques appropriate to the demands of the age, and to enable it to be experienced through avatars in 3D (augmented reality), based on the reality that societies unable to know their past cannot determine their future.