Lefkoşa Turkish Municipality Mayor Mehmet Harmancı has withdrawn from next week’s Cyprus Forum after organisers changed his title on the programme following objections from far-right Greek Cypriot party ELAM.Harmancı had been listed as “Mayor of Nicosia Turkish Municipality”, a title the forum itsel...
Britain has updated its official travel advice for LGBT+ visitors to Türkiye following the country’s sweeping raids on LGBT organisations and activists, as protests against the crackdown spread to more than 50 cities worldwide and over 450 civil society groups issued a joint condemnation.The Foreign...
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have held their first face-to-face meeting, with trade, defence, Gaza, Ukraine and Cyprus among the issues discussed.The two leaders met in New York on Tuesday, 22 September, on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations Ge...
Türkiye has joined seven Arab and Muslim-majority nations in calling on Israel to fulfil its commitments under the Gaza ceasefire plan, including allowing the “immediate, safe and unhindered” delivery of humanitarian aid and supplies into the territory.The joint statement was issued by the foreign m...
Acclaimed British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak has been named the winner of the 2026 Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage, recognising her contribution to celebrating Europe’s cultural heritage through literature and storytelling.The annual award, esta...
Organisations working to protect people from corporate abuses have lost an average of 40% of their funding in just two years, according to a new global survey, with one in eight warning they could be forced to close.The findings, published on Wednesday, 16 September, come from a survey by Swedish hu...
Türkiye and Bulgaria are pressing ahead with plans for a new border checkpoint exclusively for heavy goods vehicles in an effort to relieve chronic congestion at Kapıkule–Kapitan Andreevo, one of the world’s busiest land crossings.Officials from the two neighbouring countries inspected the proposed...
Turkish Cypriot entertainment venue La Nouba has accused international festival giant EXIT of an “unjustified breach of contract” over its unilateral withdrawal from a major music event in North Cyprus, and has warned it could seek substantial financial compensation over the cancellation.The strongl...
A senior Azerbaijani diplomat in London has accused The Guardian of presenting a misleading and one-sided picture of the former Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict in its review of a new documentary about Karabakh.Günel Salimova, Counsellor at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in London, challenged the newspap...
Türkiye international Arda Güler has received UEFA’s Champions League Revelation of the Season award, recognising the Real Madrid midfielder as one of the outstanding breakthrough players of the 2025-26 campaign.The 21-year-old was presented with the trophy at the Santiago Bernabéu on Tuesday, 8 Sep...
