Author: T-VINE

News - TRNC
Award-winning writer Sevgül Uludağ on UN panel to discuss ‘How Women make peace-building better”

A panel discussion on the role of women in conflict-resolution will be held at the Home for Co-operation, located in the Buffer Zone in Nicosia, this Thursday. Journalist, author and peace activist Sevgül Uludağ will be among the speakers at the event being organised by UNFICYP and the bi-communal Technical Committee for Gender Equality, which […]

News - UK
Public Lecture: ‘Turkey and the Middle East: Time for a Reset?’

The AKP has dominated Turkish politics since coming into power in 2002 and its foreign policies have often deviated from the established policy lines of previous Turkish governments. Given the radical changes in its region, Professor William Hale of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) will address the question: “Turkey and the Middle […]

News - TRNC
Abortion scandal rocks the TRNC
 

There’s been a huge public outcry in North Cyprus following news about unlawful late-term abortions at a private hospital in Girne. Ada Hospital has been temporarily closed by the TRNC authorities after police discovered the remains of five foetuses aged between 17 and 30 weeks, which some have labelled as “murder”. A tip-off to the […]

Music
Grup SOS live in London for the first time with special guest Arif Edizer

Two of North Cyprus’ best loved artists will be performing in a special double-bill at Cyprus Garden in East London. On Sunday 20 March, veteran rockers Grup SOS will make their debut appearance in Britain, taking to the stage with folk-rock singer Arif Edizer in what is sure to be a sell-out concert. Both Grup […]

Letters
Letters, Ofcom’s decision on UKIP: “if the official body can’t fulfil its statutory duty…we need to be worried”

Re: Ofcom deems UKIP’s anti-Turkey broadcast to be acceptable, 22. Feb 2016   Dear T-VINE, Ofcom’s response to UKIP’s recent anti-Turkey broadcast was disappointing to say the least. Media regulating itself doesn’t work. Yet if the official body regulating the industry can’t fulfil its statutory duty and protect us “from harmful or offensive material”, we […]

Film
Turkish movie Mustang up for Best Foreign Film award at tonight’s Oscars

A film by Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven will be competing for a coveted Oscar at the 88th Academy Awards being held tonight at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Mustang is a coming-of-age film about five sisters living in a village in Kastamonu, in Turkey’s northern Black Sea region. The film was entered by France […]

Film
2015 a record year for Turkish movies
 

As the world gears up for the Oscars in Hollywood this Sunday, the Turkish film industry is also celebrating its own commercial successes. Revenue from cinema admissions in 2015 reached an all-time high, with locally-made films accounting for over half of all Box Office receipts: TL 361 million (£88.2m) of a total of TL 681.4 million […]

Film
Free screening of Reha Erdem’s award-winning Times and Winds

Described as a “cinematic poem” by The Guardian’s Pete Bradshaw and included in The Times’ Top 100 Films of the Noughties, Reha Erdem’s film about three children growing up in a rural Anatolian village brings to the fore the struggles of life played out against social traditions and changing seasons. In a small village in […]