Tributes have been paid to one of Turkiye’s greatest musicians, violinist Suna Kan, who died at the weekend aged 86. The virtuoso enjoyed a celebrated solo, orchestral and teaching career in Turkiye and abroad.Kan was described as “The symbolic name of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's ‘music revolution’" by...
Two far-right politicians, Sinan Oğan and Ümit Özdağ, started the Presidential Election as allies. Now, they turn Kingmaker, but each one is backing a different side.The first round of the Turkish Presidential Elections on 14 May ended with unexpected results. The political surveys proved accurate i...
Married women in Türkiye will be able to use their maiden name without any reference to their husbands’ surnames.The Turkish Constitutional Court has decided to annul Article 187 of the Turkish Civil Code, which compelled women to take their husbands’ surnames and ditch their own after marriage.The...
On Sunday 14 May 2023, millions of voters in Türkiye head to the polls for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections.This year, the country celebrates its centenary as a Republic and Sunday’s vote is likely to go down as one of the most anticipated and pivotal days in the country’s history so far...
Last week on June 1, the United Nations Secretary General’s Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric proclaimed that Turkey will be referred to as ‘Türkiye’ in all foreign languages from now on. The change had been promptly approved by António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, following a formal reques...
After a four year break from live fashion, Raşit Bağzıbağlı returned to wow his fashion audience with a stunning show. The internationally acclaimed Turkish Cypriot designer presented his new 48-piece collection Summer Couture 2022 Collection on a specially designed turning runway at the Ritz-Carlto...
As previously reported by T-VINE, Toprak Razgatlıoğlu (Look out for Turkey’s rising motorcycle racing star Toprak Razgatlıoğlu) is making waves in the world of motorsport. The 24-year-old star from Alanya currently sits second in the World Superbike Championship, riding for the Pata Yamaha with...
Thirteen Turkish citizens held in captivity by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq were shot dead last week, the Turkish government announced on Sunday. The 13 included six soldiers, two police officers and intelligent officers who had been abducted from different parts of southeast T...
On 21 September 2017, Halla Barakat, a 23-year-old American journalist, and her 62-year-old mother Orouba Barakat, a Syrian national, were murdered in their own home in Istanbul. Their throats had been cut and their bodies covered with blankets. Nine days later, Turkish police arrested a suspec...
One of the leading lights in Turkey's main opposition Dr. Canan Kaftancıoğlu is suing Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu for 1 million TL each for defamation. Kaftancıoğlu, who is the Republican People's Party’s (CHP) regional head for Istanbul, ini...
