In the corner of a large Cambridge cemetery lie a handful of overgrown graves of men who were wounded or fell at Gallipoli / Çanakkale during the First World War. That was the epic campaign won so brilliantly against global opposition by Turkiye’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. It was also famous for the lasting […]
Conservative Party leadership contender Rishi Sunak said, in writing to the Conservative Friends of Cyprus, that the British Cypriot Community has “made a hugely positive contribution to the United Kingdom”. It is important this statement applies to the UK’s Turkish Cypriot community, equally as to its Greek Cypriot community. In World War Two, thousands of Turkish Cypriots volunteered […]
On 7 March 2009, Sapper Patrick Cengiz Azimkar of the Royal Engineers and his best mate Mark Quinsey were gunned down by the Real IRA as they left Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland, to get a last pizza before leaving for Afghanistan. Patrick was aged 21 and Mark 23. The murders, coming during a lull […]
This year marks the centenary of the Royal British Legion, a charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants. It is fitting therefore that on Remembrance Sunday, 14 November 2021, the Royal British Legion is reaching out to a group little recognised for […]
Ҫatalhöyük, near Konya, in southern Turkey, has been internationally famous as a large Neolithic settlement since its discovery in 1958. The 32-acre site is now thought to date back to at least 7,000 BC, and at its height may have housed as many as 8,000 people. Although it was one of man’s earliest attempts at […]
T-VINE talks to former Turkish Cypriot Chief Negotiator Ergün Olgun about his memories of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who passed away on 18 August after a short illness aged 80. Annan came closer than any international political figure to resolving the decades-old Cyprus Problem, overseeing a referendum to reunite the island in 2004. One […]
After a legal marathon, the TRNC’s Compulsory Insurance Guarantee Fund [Zorunlu Sigortalar Garanti Fonu] has paid its first successful claimant in its 25-year history. A sum totalling just under £47,000 has been awarded to Philip Kirby, a retired Englishman who suffered crippling injuries when his motorbike was hit by a car driving the wrong way […]
Organisers of the Cyprus Wine Fair in London say using the ‘Bloody Map’ of Cyprus is all part of their search for “a just and viable solution” to “reunite our island, and build a peaceful common future, away from the mistakes of the past”. They are stoutly defending the fact that, once again, stalls at […]
Bids by Anastasiades to bin the 1960 Treaties of Guarantee and of Alliance in an effort to dictate the terms of the next round of UN Cyprus talks have been dismissed by a seasoned observer. Former TRNC Chief Negotiator Ergün Olgun says the Greek Cypriot President should actually give thanks for the 1960 Treaty of […]
The rights of Turkish citizens to remain in the UK under the Ankara Agreement (1963) between Turkey and the EEC were raised in the House of Lords on Monday April 30. The issue formed part of a wider discussion around the rights of EU citizens in Britain whose future remains uncertain due to Brexit. The […]
