At 9.05am on 10 November, sirens sound across Türkiye. Drivers pull over and people pause in streets, schools and workplaces to mark the moment Mustafa Kemal Atatürk died at Istanbul’s Dolmabahçe Palace in 1938. He was 57.Eighty-eight years on, the country still sets aside that moment for the man wh...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan joined Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Shusha on Sunday for Azerbaijan’s Victory Day, using the occasion to reaffirm the alliance after weeks of public friction between Ankara and Baku.The two leaders addressed the media after private talks in the Karabak...
Türkiye’s planned undersea gas pipeline to North Cyprus could eventually help supply electricity to both sides of the island, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said. Any sale of power to the Greek Cypriot south would depend on an agreement between the two sides. Speaking to intern...
British Turkish Cypriots will again be participating in Remembrance Sunday services at multiple locations across London and Hertfordshire tomorrow, Sunday 8 November, with the community encouraged to attend ceremonies in their local areas to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in service.Drivi...
Türkiye’s Parliament has approved a joint defence pact with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia that commits the three countries to treat an external armed attack on any one of them as an attack on all three. The Grand National Assembly voted 279 to 119 in favour of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on T...
Turkish business owners and workers who came to Britain under the Ankara Agreement will be exempt from the Government’s new ‘earned settlement’ rules, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has confirmed in response to a question from Enfield North MP Feryal Clark. Speaking in the House of Commons on M...
A new documentary exploring the barriers faced by Turkish Cypriot sportspeople will be released in full on YouTube on Monday 9 November, following its premiere in London last night.UNSEEN: The Athletes of Northern Cyprus brings together Olympians, champions and emerging talents to examine the human...
Sadiq Khan served up a little künefe diplomacy in north London on Turkish Republic Day, joining the local community at Antepliler as he announced plans to become the first Mayor of London to make an official visit to Türkiye.The Mayor visited the popular Green Lanes restaurant in Harringay on Thursd...
Turkic states have signed a wide-ranging declaration to strengthen cooperation in trade, transport, energy, defence and technology at a summit in Ankara attended by TRNC President Tufan Erhürman, but overshadowed by the absence of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.The 163-point Ankara Declaration w...
Three people were killed and five others injured when part of a volcanic rock formation collapsed near the Göreme Open-Air Museum in Türkiye’s Cappadocia region on Thursday, 29 October.The rockfall happened at around 3.15pm local time near a car park at the museum entrance in Nevşehir province. Rock...
