Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has announced changes to a host of overseas diplomatic posts. New ambassadors were named for London, Moscow, Athens, Lefkoşa, and the European Union. First announced in August and confirmed again on Thursday is the news that Ambassador Ümit Yal...
Turkey came back from 2 goal deficit against Sweden to beat the home side and record its first points in the UEFA Nations League. A stunning finale saw the Turks score two goals in the last five minutes of the game courtesy of super-sub Emre Akbaba, to win 3-2. Played at the Friends Arena in Soln...
It’s not every day when you get an invitation from UEFA to help promote a new tournament, but that’s exactly what happened to South London-born Turkish Cypriot belly dancer Tevec Ibrahim. This week, Europe’s football body is launching a new UEFA Nations tournament to give a competitive edge to no...
Turkey’s leading air carrier saw a huge spike in passenger numbers over the extended Kurban Bayramı (Eid al-Adha) period. Between 17 August and 26 August 2018, Turkish Airlines carried 2,340,448 passengers on 15,048 flights. The details were announced on Twitter on Monday, 27 August by the airlin...
T-VINE talks to former Turkish Cypriot Chief Negotiator Ergün Olgun about his memories of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away on 18 August after a short illness aged 80. Annan came closer than any international political figure to resolving the decades-old Cyprus Problem, oversee...
A teenage Paralympic swimmer has been crowned European champion after winning in the Women’s 50 meters Backstroke S5 category. Sümeyye Boyacı, 15, won a gold medal at the 2018 World Para Swimming Allianz European Championships in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, with a time of 45.21 seconds....
Turkish athletes came away with six medals, including gold in the Men’s 200m, at the inaugural European Championships. The new multi-disciplinary event, jointly hosted by Berlin and Glasgow, concluded on Sunday, 12 August, after 11 days of competition.Athletics were held in the Olympic Sta...
For weeks, the only thing on the international news agenda about Turkey has been the depreciation of the Turkish Lira. However, a novel online petition, started by Kemal Atakan Kırca three weeks ago, has shifted the public’s attention to Batman, a province in southeast Turkey. Home to a...
A TRNC Minister has been forced to defend himself after details emerged he had gone on holiday to Jordan by flying out from an airport in South Cyprus using a Republic of Cyprus passport. A photo of Labour and Social Security Minister Zeki Çeler and his cousins at Paphos Airport, posted...
Independent critics have announced their nominees for this year’s top 100 Most Beautiful Faces. The nominations include five stunning actors and models from Turkey. Turkish nominees in the women’s Most Beautiful Faces category are Afra Saraçoğlu, Elçin Sangu, and Hande Erçel, while Barış Arduç an...
