In the early hours of Thursday, 10 August 2023, Hüseyin Mavideniz was beaten to death by bouncers outside Breeze nightclub in İskele, in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. The shocking incident, captured on mobile phone cameras, caused massive outrage, not least because of the savagery of the at...
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...
The President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus Ersin Tatar has urged the United States to accept the two-states policy he is advocating, which will “provide for a practical, fair and sustainable settlement not only for the two equal sides in Cyprus but also for the Eastern Mediterranean regio...
The magnificent new Ercan Airport is but the latest reflection of the major development underway in the TRNC, reinforcing the Turkish Cypriot state’s existence to the rest of the world and its ability to offer facilities on a par with any of the recognised states in its region. Eight years in the m...
The President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus Ersin Tatar attended this year’s Dawn Vigil (Şafak Nöbeti in Turkish) to commemorate the brave Turkish soldiers who came to the aid of Turkish Cypriots 49 years ago. Turkiye’s vital military intervention on 20 July, five days after by far-right...
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 19...
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' [2...
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 convincingl...
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]...
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 se...
