Turkish Airlines has announced it is resuming flights between Turkey and the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) from Saturday, 20 June 2020. The airline will be operating four flights a week to Ercan Airport, Lefkoşa, until the end of the month. The carrier had been expected to resume its North Cyprus flights last week, […]
Pegasus Airlines has announced it is resuming international flights. It follows a suspension of nearly 3 months to comply with government-imposed travel restrictions to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The low-cost carrier started flights to Germany at the weekend, and will be gradually adding more European destinations from 15 June 2020, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, […]
Thirteen passengers arriving from Turkey on a private jet at Ercan Airport, North Cyprus, last night were whisked through VIP and released without having to enter quarantine. The news, broken by Yenidüzen and confirmed by several Turkish Cypriot Ministers, has created uproar in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC), with members of the public […]
Ersin Tatar, the Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) has criticised the United Kingdom for freezing out Turkish Cypriots over the future of the British Sovereign Bases. His comments come in the wake of a pact between the UK and South Cyprus to open up a part of the bases for […]
The government of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus has announced that the United Kingdom is on its list of high-risk countries for coronavirus. As a result, visitors from Britain entering the TRNC in July will be quarantined. The measure runs counter to a decision already taken by the Turkish government to end quarantine for travellers […]
Süheyla Küçük, the wife of Turkish Cypriot leader Dr Fazıl Küçük, has passed away at Lefkoşa Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital on Monday. She had been receiving treatment for sepsis. Tributes have poured in for Mrs Küçük, who was given the title ‘First Lady’ after her husband, Turkish Cypriot leader Dr Fazıl Küçük, became the first […]
213 countries have been seeking to contain the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Nearly all have had access to advice and experts from World Health Organisation (WHO). While the Turkish Cypriot community has a long-standing relationship with the UN, their state the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) remains unrecognised as a de facto (existing) rather than […]
On Friday of last week, seven Turkish Cypriot families were given the news they had been praying for: that their loved ones can finally be returned to the soil of their birth for burial. Originally from Cyprus, the Turkish Cypriots – six men and one woman – had died in Britain of coronavirus (Covid-19), but […]
Details of three charter flights to repatriate Turkish Cypriots still stranded in the United Kingdom have been announced by tour operator Cyprus Paradise. The chartered aircraft will take off from London Stansted, and fly to Ercan Airport in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) via Turkey. The departure dates are confirmed as 5, 11 […]
The Council of Ministers has today announced that foreigners with permanent residency who are currently abroad will be readmitted to the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) from 8 June 2020. The statement made by government spokesperson and TRNC Foreign Minister Kudret Özersay this evening said that: “As of June 8, even if they are […]
