The funeral of a nine-year-old girl who died two weeks ago after being hit by a bus in Bexleyheath will be held on Monday. The multi-faith service for Ada Bıçakçı will start at the family home at 10.30am on August 19, followed by a service at St Paul’s Garden at 11.30am. From there, little Ada […]
The sun has set on another Summer Olympics, with the Paris Games full of incredible sporting performances, new records and sporting icons, and several controversies, including France’s hijab ban on its own Muslim athletes, its ambitious and at times bizarre Opening Ceremony, and the gender row involving two female boxers. For Türkiye, the promise of […]
Thoughts turn to Cyprus in July. Not for sun and sea, but the messy business of politics. So it is with the European People’s Party (EPP)’s MiniTrue propaganda video on the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Turkish ”invasion”. Watching the video, one gets the impression that Türkiye initiated an unprovoked attack on an existing EU […]
It’s not every day that an athlete becomes a global icon, much less one who came second in their sport, but that’s exactly where Turkish air pistol shooter Yusuf Dikeç finds himself following his performance at the Paris Games. The former Turkish army officer won silver with teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan in the 10 m […]
The new Member of Parliament for the East London constituency of Barking has used her maiden speech in the House of Commons to highlight her family’s difficult passage, leaving their native Cyprus for a new life as immigrants in the United Kingdom. Nesil Caliskan, who made history at the General Election last month when she […]
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 parties had been organised in North Cyprus, […]
The Turkish government has blocked access to Instagram, preventing the country’s nearly 60 million users from seeing or posting on the popular social media platform. The decision was announced by the country’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu) on its website on Friday morning, 2 August. Although no official reason has […]
On Friday morning, the entire Turkish Cypriot nation was glued to television screens cheering on Buse Savaşkan as she took part in the Women’s High Jump qualifications at the Paris Games. The 25-year-old Olympic debutant secured a coveted spot in Sunday’s finals by equalling her personal best jump of 1.92 metres in the qualifiers – […]
Three more men have been convicted of various crimes following the kidnapping and brutal killing of popular DJ Koray Alpergin in North London two years ago. Dylan Weatherley, 20, from Tottenham, North London, was found guilty on Wednesday, 31 July, of Mr Alpergin’s manslaughter, kidnap and false imprisonment after a trial at the Old Bailey. […]
Friday’s Opening Ceremony marks the start of the Paris Summer Olympic Games – the world’s largest sporting event. Over the next two weeks, more than 10,700 athletes will participate in 329 events across 32 sports, with the Games concluding on 11 August. Among them will be 102 Turks – 54 women and 48 men – […]
