The United Nations has announced today that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be travelling to Cyprus at the end of the month to help advance negotiations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots to reunite the island. Rumours about a possible Guterres visit had been circulating for the past we...
Turkish tennis star Zeynep Sönmez made her presence felt at Wimbledon this summer, combining an impressive opening-round victory with a discreet but powerful gesture of support for the Palestinian people that has put her firmly in the international spotlight.The 24-year-old Turkish number one arrive...
Cypriots will have the chance to watch award-winning documentary The Divided Island about the Cyprus Conflict at a special screening in the capital Nicosia later this month. The event is being held at the Home for Co-operation, in Cyprus’ Buffer Zone, on Saturday, 20 September, and will include...
The sun has set on another Summer Olympics, with the Paris Games full of incredible sporting performances, new records and sporting icons, and several controversies, including France’s hijab ban on its own Muslim athletes, its ambitious and at times bizarre Opening Ceremony, and the gender row invol...
Thoughts turn to Cyprus in July. Not for sun and sea, but the messy business of politics. So it is with the European People’s Party (EPP)’s MiniTrue propaganda video on the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Turkish ”invasion”. Watching the video, one gets the impression that Türkiye initiated an unprovo...
It’s not every day that an athlete becomes a global icon, much less one who came second in their sport, but that’s exactly where Turkish air pistol shooter Yusuf Dikeç finds himself following his performance at the Paris Games. The former Turkish army officer won silver with teammate Şevval İlayda...
Sunday’s Women’s High Jump finals at the Paris Olympics didn’t generate the result Buse Savaşkan had wanted, but for Turkish Cypriots she remains their hero. Thousands of people had expressed their pride and joy in her performance on social media ahead of and after Sunday’s final. Multiple watch p...
On Friday morning, the entire Turkish Cypriot nation was glued to television screens cheering on Buse Savaşkan as she took part in the Women's High Jump qualifications at the Paris Games. The 25-year-old Olympic debutant secured a coveted spot in Sunday’s finals by equalling her personal best jump...
Friday’s Opening Ceremony marks the start of the Paris Summer Olympic Games – the world’s largest sporting event. Over the next two weeks, more than 10,700 athletes will participate in 329 events across 32 sports, with the Games concluding on 11 August. Among them will be 102 Turks – 54 women and 4...
Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer has had an opportunity to hold face-to-face meetings with a number of world leaders at the 75th anniversary NATO Heads of State Summit last week, among them President Erdoğan of Turkiye. The two men met on Thursday 11 July – the final day of...
