Labour Party politicians of Turkish Cypriot origin have become embroiled in row over a tweet that accused Israel of backing terrorists in Syria, it has been reported. Veteran councillor Ayfer Orhan has been suspended from the Labour group after she shared a tweet that claimed Israel backed Al-Qae...
Pegasus Airlines will start flying between Manchester and Istanbul on 1 July, the company has announced. Flights between Manchester Airport and Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen will operate five times a week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, a Pegasus press statement said. The n...
They may be just 40 miles apart, but for the past six months Turkey and North Cyprus have been in two different time zones. Since October, Turkey has been one hour ahead of its Eastern Mediterranean neighbour. Early Sunday morning, clocks went forward by an hour on both sides in Cyprus and in oth...
Turkish entrepreneurs in Britain “won’t rest” until they have overturned a High Court judgment on immigration rules that have made it harder for thousands of Turks to stay in the UK. The vow was made by the Alliance of Turkish Businesspeople (AOTB) after it lost a legal challenge to the “retrospe...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan should take measures to protect the city’s Turkish community in the wake of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, an umbrella organisation representing Turks in the UK has said. Fifty people died and almost as many were injured when a gunman opened fire on wor...
North Cyprus state broadcaster BRT will tonight screen a special interview with the Turkish Cypriot members of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus. Gülden Plümer Küçük and Mine Balman appear on the Londra Gündem programme with presenter Ertanch Hidayettin. Ms Küçük and Ms Balman are...
It is very difficult to write an obituary if the person was very dear to you and held a special place in your life. You try to put the words together, but after a while the blank paper in front of you remains just the same as you had started, completely blank. This happened to me when I tried to wri...
Successful British Turkish Cypriots were among the guests at a Buckingham Palace event hosted by Prince Charles to “celebrate the Cypriot diaspora in the UK”. Baroness Hussein-Ece, artist Tracey Emin, businessman and Dragon’s Den star Touker Süleyman, lawyer Emma Edhem and former British Ambassad...
A small delegation from the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) will visit the British capital in mid-March in the hope of discovering new information about the fate of people reported missing during the Cyprus Conflict. Representatives of the CMP will be in London for five days, from Monda...
Britain’s position on Cyprus remains unchanged, its officials in Nicosia have stated, after Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades claimed that Prime Minister Theresa May said the UK did not wish to continue in its role as a guarantor country. Cyprus gained independence from the UK in 1960 follo...
