Now in its fifteenth year, the Dawn Vigil (Şafak Nöbeti in Turkish) bears extra significance this July as it commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Turkiye’s vital intervention in Cyprus on 20 July 1974 to liberate Turkish Cypriots and bring peace to the island. Ferhat Göçer, one of Turkiye’s biggest pop stars behind hits such as […]
The sister of a man killed by a drunk driver in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus has said the family are going through a “never-ending nightmare” due to constant delays to the trial against the alleged perpetrator. Debbie Wolstencroft shared her frustrations with T-VINE about trying to get justice for her late brother David […]
If you’re in the UK and Cyprus, get ready to lose an hour of sleep this weekend as clocks will go forward by an hour in the early hours of Sunday morning. The switch happens at exactly 1am local time on Sunday, 31 March, when clocks will automatically change to 2am. Britain, the Turkish Republic […]
Turkish Cypriots will not return to the negotiating table until their sovereignty and equal status is recognised, Ersin Tatar, the President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, told reporters at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on Sunday. In an interview with French news agency AFP, President Tatar explained why he was against talks without a […]
Monday, 4 March 2024 will mark 60 years since the United Nations (UN) Security Council passed Resolution 186 that green-lighted the presence of UN peacekeepers in Cyprus and inadvertently created the current status quo on the island, where one side is recognised as a ‘government’ and the other struggles to achieve parity in line with […]
Many violent events occurred in the final years of British colonial rule in Cyprus, but one of the worst – and least known – is the slaughter of seven Turkish Cypriot civilians and the wounding of dozens of others by British troops on 27 and 28 January 1958. This shocking event would have a pivotal […]
Last week, a longstanding campaigner for safer roads in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus called for tougher penalties for drivers found to be over the legal limit to deter drunk driving, which has become a growing scourge on North Cyprus’ roads. Drunk drivers were responsible for 12 of the 47 fatalities in 2023. Within […]
The destruction of the natural environment, particularly Cyprus’s beautiful coastlines, has been highlighted in a powerful new awareness campaign created by artist Nurtane Karagil. Called ‘Coastline(s) Waning: All for a few extra Sunbeds’, Karagil’s collage of four scenes shows beaches dug up as if they are part of a construction site as people continue to […]
T-VINE Magazine readers really do love a good news story. Two thirds of our most well-read and commented stories of 2023 were about positive developments, charity or success stories. There are four separate news items about the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus that feature in our Top 15, including our biggest story of 2023 by […]
Professor Ibrahim Benter’s term as the Director-General of Kıbrıs Vakıflar İdaresi has come to an end. The TRNC Council of Ministers called time on Benter’s decade in charge of the oldest Turkish Cypriot institute, naming Professor Mustafa Tümer (top right) as his replacement. The details were announced in the Official Gazette last week. Kıbrıs Vakıflar […]
