The Republic of Turkiye is gearing up for a massive international operation to enable more than 3 million Turkish nationals living abroad to vote in the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections, which are taking place on 14 May 2023. Voting stations are being opened in 73 countries worldwi...
Türkiye's Rıza Kayaalp has secured a record-equalling 12th Greco-Roman gold medal at the European Wrestling Championships at the Arena Zagreb in Croatia – the same number as Russian great Aleksandr Karelin. Kayaalp was crowned champion of the super-heavyweight 130-kg division following a closely co...
A gourmet food portal dedicated to celebrating traditional dishes from around the world has given a popular Turkish soup near perfect scores. Mercimek Çorbası (lentil soup) was scored 4.7 out of a possible 5 on TasteAtlas’s list of 100 Best Rated Soups in the World. The Turkish soup was only better...
More than one in ten of the world’s top 100 most influential Twitter accounts last year were in Turkiye, according to Notus, which measures Twitter accounts according to their reach and engagement. The digital marketing company released its annual rankings for 2022 last month, which included 12 Twi...
The international football break is well underway, with several Euro 2024 qualifiers, including England’s against Italy, and Azerbaijan’s against Austria, already taking place. Italy v England – and Harry Kane making history England were facing arguably their toughest opponents in Group C, Italy...
A delegation of parliamentarians from the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus have officially attended the 146th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) that is being hosted in Bahrain’s capital Manama. The Secretary Generals of the four political parties sitting in the TRNC Parliament, MPs Oğ...
A leading pro-unification activist in Cyprus has urged the newly elected Greek Cypriot leader, Nikos Christodoulides, to take “unilateral confidence building steps” to help with the resumption of talks to solve the long-running “Cyprus problem”. Kemal Baykallı, a co-founder of civil society group U...
Thursday saw President Ersin Tatar of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) come together with the newly elected Greek Cypriot leader, Nikos Christodoulides, in the buffer zone in the capital Lefkoşa / Nicosia. The meeting, which ran for nearly two hours, took place under the auspices of the...
There were more fatalities in southeast Turkiye after a new earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck the already devastated province of Hatay on Monday evening. It follows two mega earthquakes that hit the same region two weeks ago, which has killed more than 48,000 people and left mill...
A week on from the devastating twin earthquakes that hit Turkiye’s southeast and northwest Syria, and the scale of the devastation has become far more acute. Türkiye and Syria were hit by 7.8 Richter magnitude earthquake in the early hours of 6 February 2023, with its epicentre near the Turkish ci...
