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Pegasus re-starting flights to London Stansted, Ercan and other international destinations

Pegasus Airlines has announced it is resuming international flights. It follows a suspension of nearly 3 months to comply with government-imposed travel restrictions to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The low-cost carrier started flights to Germany at the weekend, and will be gradually adding...

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TRNC PM Ersin Tatar to UK: changing status of British bases “not valid” without Turkish Cypriot approval

Ersin Tatar, the Prime Minister of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) has criticised the United Kingdom for freezing out Turkish Cypriots over the future of the British Sovereign Bases. His comments come in the wake of a pact between the UK and South Cyprus to open up a part of the bases fo...

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Turkish Airlines and AnadoluJet resuming flights to the UK from today

After an absence of nearly three months, flights between Turkey and Britain are restarting today, 11 June. The news was confirmed on social media by the British Embassy in Ankara. In a statement posted on its UK in Turkey Facebook page, Turkish Airlines will operate one daily flight from Istanbul...

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Turkish Cypriot diaspora views needed for pioneering research into ending the Cyprus Problem

The Cyprus Problem has existed for decades. While we each have our own take on its origins, the search to find a solution that is acceptable to the majority of Greek and Turkish Cypriots continues to this very day. Research can play a vital part in helping policy makers understand the concerns an...

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Missing Person appeal: Ahmet Gökhan found safe and well

Friends of Ahmet Gökhan, a Turkish Cypriot male who went missing in East London last week, have reported he has been found and is now back home. Mr Gökhan went missing from his Canning Town home on Tuesday, 2 June, prompting friends including actress Fatoş Törer, to launch a missing persons appea...

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Coronavirus: “It’s hard to believe Sonya is going home in a coffin”

On Thursday, 4 June, families of Sonya Kaygan and other Turkish Cypriots who died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic gathered at Shacklewell Lane Mosque in Dalston, East London, to say goodbye to their deceased loved ones before they were repatriated to their native homeland of North Cyprus...

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Repatriation flights for citizens after UK left off Turkey’s list of 40 international destinations

Turkey is set to resume international flights from 10 June. Commercial carriers such as Pegasus and Turkish Airlines will gradually start to fly to forty countries from this date, Turkey’s Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu announced in a written statement on Thursday, 4 June. Turkey, a major...

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Missing Person: actress makes appeal to help find East London friend Ahmet Gökhan

UPDATE, TUESDAY 09 June 2020, Ahmet Gökhan has been found and is back home safe and well. Friends of Ahmet Gökhan have made a desperate appeal to learn his whereabouts after he went missing on Tuesday, 2 June. Ahmet was last seen by his housemate at their shared home in Canning Town, East London...

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Joy for families as TRNC Government overturns ban on repatriation of Turkish Cypriots who died of Covid-19

On Friday of last week, seven Turkish Cypriot families were given the news they had been praying for: that their loved ones can finally be returned to the soil of their birth for burial. Originally from Cyprus, the Turkish Cypriots – six men and one woman – had died in Britain of coronavirus (Cov...

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First three repatriation flights from London to Ercan in June confirmed only for TRNC citizens

Details of three charter flights to repatriate Turkish Cypriots still stranded in the United Kingdom have been announced by tour operator Cyprus Paradise. The chartered aircraft will take off from London Stansted, and fly to Ercan Airport in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) via Turkey....

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