One favourable result of the Brexit trigger seems to have been that Her Majesty's High Commissioner in Nicosia, Matthew Kidd, has been moved to communicate direct with UK nationals living in the TRNC – a rare event in recent years. In the following video, circulated to media in Cyprus p...
On Sunday 26 March, the time on both sides in Cyprus will once again be the same. For the past five months there has been an hour’s difference between the north and south of the island. The time difference came about because the Turkish Cypriot government decided to drop Daylight Saving...
Senior members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BDBJ) met with the TRNC London Representative for the first time yesterday. TRNC ambassador Zehra Başaran and Esra Emin, a TRNC diplomat, hosted BDBJ’s chief executive Gillian Merron and David Walsh, the body’s international relat...
Kamran Aziz, one of the most significant Turkish Cypriot personalities of the past century, has died aged 95. She had been unwell for some time, receiving treatment at Lefkoşa Dr. Burhan Nalbantoğlu Hospita and was discharged yesterday. She passed away at her home in the early hours of this morning....
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) took part in the inaugural Global Healthcare Travel Forum (GHTF), which ended yesterday, enabling them to promote the country’s world-class health facilities and treatments to new audiences. Held in the Jordanian capital of Amman under the...
Tomorrow’s planned meeting between President Mustafa Akıncı and President Nicos Anastasiades has been cancelled. “Unfortunately, we have just been informed by the #UN that, due to the Turkish Cypriot leader’s refusal to attend, tomorrow’s scheduled meeting will not take place,” Anastasiades’ spok...
A British Cypriot who launched an online petition to name a street in Cyprus after superstar George Michael wants to see the same recognition extended island-wide. Haji Mike, an academic and musician who now lives and works in Nicosia, told T-VINE Magazine he sees no reason why the street naming...
The Committee on Missing Persons Cyprus (CMP) has confirmed that they have located the remains of 1,192 of the 2,001 people reported missing during the Cyprus Conflict. The CMP has been excavating sites across the island for the past ten years looking for Cypriots who vanished between December 1...
On Monday night, five young people from across Cyprus will launch their digital stories about everyday life, division and co-existence on the island. The debut screening of their short films, called Life Routes: Cyprus, will take place at the Goethe-Institut Cyprus, in the capital’s Buffer Zone....
An accident on the Girne mountain road involving a lorry and minibus full of school children has killed three and injured eight others. The head-on collision occurred this morning by the Değirmenlik Taşocakları (Değirmenlik Quarries), as the minibus was on the school run, with both vehicles comin...
