The results from Sunday’s European Parliament (EP) Elections in southern Cyprus proved disappointing for the three candidates of Turkish Cypriot origin who were standing, including AKEL’s Niyazi Kızılyürek (pictured top right).Five years ago, Kızılyürek, a lecturer at the University of Nicosia in so...
In the old days, back in the time of Abraham and Moses, there was a law that said “Thou shalt give life for life, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot”.It wasn’t a very progressive law – as Mahatma Ghandi was to point out two thousand years later that kind of ‘eye for an eye...
Six years ago today, Enfield Town Football Club hosted the final of a very special tournament in London that featured teams from politically unrecognised nations.While not as prestigious or on as large a scale as its more mainstream FIFA counterpart, the Confederation of Independent Football Associa...
Turkiye has announced it is halting all import and export transactions with Israel citing the “worsening humanitarian tragedy" in Gaza. Israel’s seven month military offensive in Gaza has left over 34,500 people dead, most women and children.“All import and export transactions related to Israel, inc...
The phrase ‘never off duty’ rang true for Acting Inspector Eren Emin of the Metropolitan Police and his fellow British police officers on a recent trip to Spain, as they intervened and apprehended a thief who was trying to rob a restaurant.The head of the Turkish Police Association (TPA) had jetted...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of starting a fire at a property in the West German city of Solingen that killed an immigrant family of four in March.The 39-year-old suspect, a German national, was being investigated for a separate incident of attempted manslaughter when police found evidence i...
A fatal fire in the West German city of Solingen that killed a Bulgarian Turkish family of four last week and injured many others has evoked painful memories of when a far-right group deliberately set fire to the Solingen home of Turks in 1993, killing five people.A preliminary investigation into th...
Earlier this week, six teams competed in the second and final round of the play-offs for the three remaining places at the EURO 2024 finals that will kick off in Germany on Friday 14 June.One of the three playoff spots was in Group F, where Türkiye was drawn with Portugal and the Czech Republic in D...
The 28th edition of the Turkiye-Germany Film Festival has just concluded, with this year’s big prize going to Zeki Demirkubuz's film Hayat [Life], which won Best Feature Film. Demirkubuz, who wrote, produced and directed the film, also won the Grand Jury Prize.His film Hayat is a hard-hitting drama...
Monday, 4 March 2024 will mark 60 years since the United Nations (UN) Security Council passed Resolution 186 that green-lighted the presence of UN peacekeepers in Cyprus and inadvertently created the current status quo on the island, where one side is recognised as a ‘government’ and the other strug...
