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Centre-left candidate Tufan Erhürman sweeps to landslide victory in TRNC presidential election

Republican Turkish Party leader Tufan Erhürman has defeated incumbent President Ersin Tatar by almost 27 percentage points, securing enough support to win the presidency outright in the first round.Centre-left politician Tufan Erhürman has been elected the new President of the Turkish Republic of No...

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Special Buffer Zone screening for Cyprus documentary ‘The Divided Island’

Cypriots will have the chance to watch award-winning documentary The Divided Island about the Cyprus Conflict at a special screening in the capital Nicosia later this month. The event is being held at the Home for Co-operation, in Cyprus’ Buffer Zone, on Saturday, 20 September, and will include...

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No medal, but Turkish Cypriot national pride peaks for Buse Savaşkan in Paris Olympics high jump finals

Sunday’s Women’s High Jump finals at the Paris Olympics didn’t generate the result Buse Savaşkan had wanted, but for Turkish Cypriots she remains their hero.Thousands of people had expressed their pride and joy in her performance on social media ahead of and after Sunday’s final.Multiple watch parti...

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Şafak Nöbeti / Dawn Vigil: Ferhat Göçer to headline 50th anniversary commemorations

Now in its fifteenth year, the Dawn Vigil (Şafak Nöbeti in Turkish) bears extra significance this July as it commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Turkiye’s vital intervention in Cyprus on 20 July 1974 to liberate Turkish Cypriots and bring peace to the island.Ferhat Göçer, one of Turkiye’s bigge...

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Three years on, still no justice for family of British man killed by drunk driver in North Cyprus

The sister of a man killed by a drunk driver in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus has said the family are going through a “never-ending nightmare” due to constant delays to the trial against the alleged perpetrator.Debbie Wolstencroft shared her frustrations with T-VINE about trying to get justic...

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TRNC boxers Sugar Atahasan and Hebun Noyan score pro wins at BIBA fight night in Aberdeen

Two professional boxers from the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) were victorious in their British and Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA) fights held at the Rich Energy Arena in Aberdeen at the end of March.Middleweight Sugar Atahasan took on Marty Kayes and won a unanimous points decision, while...

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British Summer Time set to start this Sunday when clocks go forward an hour

If you’re in the UK and Cyprus, get ready to lose an hour of sleep this weekend as clocks will go forward by an hour in the early hours of Sunday morning.The switch happens at exactly 1am local time on Sunday, 31 March, when clocks will automatically change to 2am.Britain, the Turkish Republic of No...

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TRNC President rules out new Cyprus talks until Turkish Cypriot equal status is recognised

Turkish Cypriots will not return to the negotiating table until their sovereignty and equal status is recognised, Ersin Tatar, the President of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, told reporters at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on Sunday.In an interview with French news agency AFP, President Tatar e...

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The illegitimacy of UN Resolution 186 and the insurmountable problems it’s caused in Cyprus

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...

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We remember: the 7 Turkish Cypriots killed by British troops in the riots of January 1958

Many violent events occurred in the final years of British colonial rule in Cyprus, but one of the worst – and least known – is the slaughter of seven Turkish Cypriot civilians and the wounding of dozens of others by British troops on 27 and 28 January 1958. This shocking event would have a pivotal...

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