Galateia (Greek: Γαλάτεια, Turkish: Mehmetçik, "Little Soldier")[3] is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located on the Karpass peninsula.

It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus, where it is a municipality belonging to the district of Iskele.

A traditional Turkish village sitting high on a hillside overlooking the valley below,[3] Galáteia is most famous for its summer grape festival,[4][5] for which people travel from all over Cyprus and the world to attend.

This was because it was believed that the village was a hotbed of Turkish-Cypriot millitancy through memberships of paramilitary groups such as Volkan and TMT during the turbulent times of the struggle for independence (1955-1959) and post-independence (1963-1974) period.

This speculation was due to a tactic used by the Turkish-Cypriot commanders in which they would remove exhausts from tractors which would produce the sound of a tank.