The next international football break is upon us, which can only mean one thing: more Euro 2024 group qualifying action. Over the next seven days, Turkiye and Azerbaijan all play, along with the four UK home nations.Northern Ireland is the only side with two Euro 2023 qualifiers in September, as the...
Turkiye’s national women’s volleyball team made history on Sunday night after claiming their first European crown. The Turkish side came from behind to beat reigning world champions Serbia 3-2 in the final of the Women’s European Volleyball Championship in Brussels. A capacity crowd of 10,688 spect...
Turkiye is eying its first Women’s European Volleyball title after beating the current European champions Italy in the semi-final and confirm its place in the final against Serbia on Sunday. The Sultans were up against a strong Italian side with many of the players, which had helped it lift the tro...
Businessman Ali Sabancı and his wife Vuslat Doğan Sabancı have been seriously injured after the speedboat they were travelling in crashed into rocks near to the Greek island of Leros. Mr Sabancı, 54, who is the chairperson of the company that owns low-cost Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines, was airl...
An Australian MP of Greek Cypriot heritage has got herself into hot water after making divisive and deeply offensive comments about Cyprus. Kat Theophanous (pictured top), the Northcote MP for the Victoria Labour Party, was suspended by her party after giving a speech in Parliament on the anniversa...
Disney+ has lost tens of thousands of subscribers after cancelling its plans to air a television drama series about Atatürk. Turks worldwide have reacted furiously to the cancellation news, ostensibly due to American anti-Turkish lobbying, but was the reaction justified? Last year, Turks were thri...
This summer’s global blockbuster movie has undoubtedly been Barbie. The fantasy comedy inspired by Mattel’s iconic fashion doll has taken over $1.2 billion at box offices worldwide, breaking multiple records in the process. Directed by Greta Gerwig, the live action movie starring Margot Robbie in t...
The term ‘musical legend’ is overused, but in the case of Erkin Koray it is entirely justified. The free-spirited, guitar-playing singer-songwriter is one Turkiye’s most significant artists of the past 60 years; a pioneer of Anatolian and psychedelic rock, the composer of some of Turkiye’s most memo...
A Turkish endurance swimmer who hit the headlines last year after becoming the youngest Turkish swimmer to cross the English Channel has made history again, this time by swimming across the North Channel. Aysu Türkoğlu started her 21.4 mile swim from Donaghadee in Northern Ireland on Wednesday morn...
The Russian Embassy in Cyprus is getting ready to offer consular services in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, according to Russia’s official news agency TASS. A TASS correspondent said the details of the new service came from a representative of the Embassy, who said: “We will start providing...
