The organisers of North Cyprus’ annual Şafak Nöbeti, or Dawn Vigil, have released details for this year’s event. Now in its fourteenth year, this poignant commemoration event allows members of the public to gather on the Girne beach where Turkish troops first landed in the early hours of 20 July 1974 and to recall their […]
Residents of Girne in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus were treated to a preview display from one of the world’s premier aerobatic demonstration teams on Monday. SoloTürk – the Turkish Air Force’s aerobatic display team – were practicing in the TRNC ahead of their big display for ’20 Temmuz’ [20 July] Peace and Freedom […]
Sami Özuslu of the centre-left Republican Turkish Party (Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi, CTP) has beaten twelve other candidates to win today’s Parliamentary by-election in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC). Özuslu secured 43.73% of the vote to win. The journalist turned politician convincingly beat his nearest rival, businessman Ali Başman of the ruling National Unity […]
The Supreme Electoral Board [Yüksek Seçim Kurulu, YSK] of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus have confirmed that a dozen candidates will be standing in the upcoming Parliamentary by-election on Sunday, 25 June. The by-election was called after the leader of the People’s Party [Halkın Partisi, HP], Kudret Özersay (pictured top), resigned from Parliament last […]
A father of one of the Turkish Cypriot school victims of the Turkish earthquake has shared a heart-breaking note from his daughter, sent to him on May Day seven years ago. Enver Karakaya posted Selin Karakaya’s International Workers Day message to him on 1 May 2016, when she would have been just seven years old. […]
Fly Kıbrıs Airlines has made its first flight, taking off from Ercan Airport in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus early on Sunday morning carrying government ministers, tourism sector professionals and Turkish Cypriot media to Istanbul Airport in Turkiye. The airline then welcomed its first paying guests, who boarded its A320 Airbus aircraft for a […]
Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film, Kuru Otlar Üstüne [‘On Dry Grass’] has been selected to compete for the Palme d’Or and other top prizes at France’s prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Kuru Otlar Üstüne is one of 19 feature films to be selected for the festival’s 76th edition, which this year will run […]
Ramiz Manyera, one of the leading business figures in North Cyprus, has died. The sad news was announced by his family on Tuesday. The pioneering Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur made his fortune selling soft drinks. He established Bel-Cola in 1958 – the first carbonated drink produced by a Turkish Cypriot, but it was Bixi Cola nearly […]
Clocks will go forward by an hour this weekend in Britain, the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus and other parts of the world that use the Daylight Saving system. The scheme, used to maximise daylight hours in winter, and revert back to normal in the spring and summer time, comes in to play this Sunday, […]
A leading pro-unification activist in Cyprus has urged the newly elected Greek Cypriot leader, Nikos Christodoulides, to take “unilateral confidence building steps” to help with the resumption of talks to solve the long-running “Cyprus problem”. Kemal Baykallı, a co-founder of civil society group Unite Cyprus Now, made his comments to Greek Cypriot daily Dialogos, which […]
